David Coveney

Every year I look for­ward to Loton Park, down in Shrop­shire. And every year I worry about it! It’s a lovely hillclimb — scenic and great for spec­tat­ors but there’s no deny­ing that it’s not without dangers. Lots of people end up with dam­aged cars here.
I’ve decided not to trailer the car up […]

If you don’t open your up and over door prop­erly you can get hurt when you walk into the corner of it.
Here’s a quick shot to show just how much — note that I’d already rinsed my head once and this was the bleed­ing quite a few minutes later. I wasn’t too happy.
Being a scalp […]

For view­ing of videos, this site is at its best with the Fire­fox web browser. Safari, Kon­queror and Epi­phany should work well too but as this is a per­sonal site test­ing is lim­ited.
If you want higher res­ol­u­tion wmv ver­sions of the video files you can view them here.

I’m post­ing this for the bene­fit of any­one who exper­i­ences a sim­ilar prob­lem to mine when mov­ing Word­press from a dir­ect­ory into the web’s root dir­ect­ory.
What happened was that many links and pic­tures, some placed in there by plu­gins, oth­ers simply links that were typed in, had failed.
I real­ised that although I’d fol­lowed the migra­tion instruc­tions, a […]

I’m often asked by people how to start com­pet­ing in sprint­ing, and the real­ity is fairly simple. This inform­a­tion also applies, by and large, to enter­ing many other events which don’t require a spe­cial license — eg, tri­als, autotest­ing, nav­ig­a­tion ral­lies and so on.
First, find an event with a local club. In the North […]

I’m afraid that due to issues with recod­ing some of my videos to this website’s flash player I’ve had to stick with the Google Video sys­tem for some videos, at least for the time being.
A lap of the Ain­tree club cir­cuit. It’s a clas­sic little cir­cuit in the old school format — ie, fast, open, […]

I’m afraid that due to issues with recod­ing some of my videos to this website’s flash player I’ve had to stick with the Google Video sys­tem for some videos, at least for the time being.
A quick but not really that quick run up the clas­sic Loton Park hillclimb course. It’s a real test of nerve […]

I’m afraid that due to issues with recod­ing some of my videos to this website’s flash player I’ve had to stick with the Google Video sys­tem for some videos.
In this one I set what, at the time, was up there amongst the fast­est times at Ain­tree for a road going pro­duc­tion car under two litres. […]

This one’s with thanks to the Goldtrack Driv­ing Club who I do most of my track­days with. Towards the end of the day I’d been improv­ing my speed around the cir­cuit when I spied a Fer­rari 360 Com­pet­iz­ione Stradale ahead, rid­ing slicks, and going well. But I felt that with just that little […]