Well after a manic week after the decision was taken to prepare a new Saxo for racing this year, everything seemed to cold slowly and we got no further than stripping out the donor car. As yet no clear route for racing next year has been decided which is a shame as it would be nice to have time to prep the car rather than the usual mad rush a few weeks before the first race.

In the intervening time though I have been helping Matt with his karting. This year he has been comepeting in a few championships and race weekends at Little Rissington and Shenington. Although karting is fun, for me it is a bit of a let down compared to car racing I have been involved in for the past couple of years. The team have ambitions next year to race in Gineta G50’s, as long as a budget can be found to run them. These are really good cars which would test both Matt and the team to the limit. I really do hope more money can be found for next year to allow Matt to go racing, but in this time of economic uncertainty I do have doubts whether any large enough sponsors can be found.

As always, anyone who is interested in Matt or the team, please contact me for more info.

After two hard years helping a local racing team (MVRacing) running a race prepared Citroen Saxo VTR in the Saxmax junior racing championship, the team took the decision to not race this year as there was no budget available. This wasn’t helped by a very difficult year last year when we were unable to race in all events due to lack of funds and a car that was in need to work which again there was insufficient budget to perform. Since this decision though (and the selling of last years car), Matt (15)- the driver -  has been racing in RotaxMax karts, but longs for a return to the circuit racing Saxmax offered.

On Wednesday a decision was taken to build a new car with the aim of completing as many races this year as possible. Unfortunately we are unlikely to make the next round since it is only 4 weeks away and we are only just starting to strip the car in preparation for the roll cage to be fitted. The budget will again be tight as we currently have no sponsors but the are now actively searching for companies looking for a cheap way into motorsport promotion. We can offer promotion on the car and team website, use of the team and car for other marketing (please bear in mind that Matt is still at school so this kind of work will need to fit in around his education) & chances to enjoy a day at the races - meeting the team and watching many different racing formulas. Typically we race at many of the UKs finest circuits including Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Donington Park.

If you are interested in supporting the team and wish to discuss any proposals further please contact me - initially by email to vince[at]marsters.co.uk.

For some reason I have yet to work out, I seem to be getting a lot of requests to create websites for different people. I personally have 4 domains, but only this site has anything resembling a website associated with it. Along with my own domains I also host the site for MVRacing - the race team I pretend to help out - and Buzz-it - a site for a friend who runs is own computer business in Stratford on Avon.

Originally I hosted all these sites on my MacDomains Silver hosting account. This was a very reasonable £5 per month offering 1Gb webspace and 14Gb bandwidth along with MySQL, Ruby on Rails and multiple sub domains. Managing the multiple websites was becoming quite complicated so I have now moved to a reseller hosting account - MacDomains themselves unfortunately do not offer these. This allows me to run all the domains on separate hosting accounts as well as selling on some of the spare space and capacity I have (when I can get round to designing the packages and creating the website). I am thinking of offering something along the lines of 1Gb webspace and 5-10Gb bandwidth per month as a starter. Let me know if you are interested. I can’t promise I will be ready to supply straight away but if there is enough interest then I will get to work on the packages.

Along side all of this I need to work on new websites for Evehosting (the domain I will use for hosting packages), Vale Cycles (A friend cycle shop which was badly damaged during the floods in July - and a website in desperate need of updating), Matt Venn (The personal site of the 15 year old driver of our race team) and a couple of others which I will announce once they are completed.