I've done a bit of Motorsport Trucking over the years but to be honest it's a bit dull. You fly into say Monza, drive the F1 truck to Barcelona and fly home so although you may be driving a great truck full of Ferraris', it's not at all exciting and it's all over in a couple of days.
However, a few months ago I was offered a really good gig down to Portimao to the Mclaren Pure festival working with Protyre and Pirelli. I got all excited about it until they pulled the plug 6 weeks ago as they din't need an extra truck.
Well the phone rang a couple of weeks ago and it was back on and was I available? The rate had gone up enough to make me accept and move my other work about. The thought of 17 days away in a year where I've been precisely nowhere was too good to turn down.
The plan is to drive down to Portimao, work in the Pirelli pits garage doing whatever and then drive home. All expenses paid, hotels every nice and wall to wall sunshine.....happy days!!
1st job is to get down to Didcot to collect the truck. My mate Harry, who runs Academy Motorsport and lives locally, was taking one of the trailers down so he picked me in his silver Scania and off we went.
Got to Didcot, sorted the trucks and trailers out and headed to Portsmouth. My trailer was loaded withg 543 Pirelli slicks for the Mclaren GT3 and 4's for the weekends action. The other guys had all the fitting and garage equipment as well as wet tyres and the balance of the slicks.
I was given a brand new Protyre DAF XF530 which is a brilliant truck so happy days. Harry was in his own R730 V8 Scania and Richard was in a clapped out old Pirelli Scania which had seen better days but was all they had spare. Most of their fleet was heading off to Russia for the F1.
However, a few months ago I was offered a really good gig down to Portimao to the Mclaren Pure festival working with Protyre and Pirelli. I got all excited about it until they pulled the plug 6 weeks ago as they din't need an extra truck.
Well the phone rang a couple of weeks ago and it was back on and was I available? The rate had gone up enough to make me accept and move my other work about. The thought of 17 days away in a year where I've been precisely nowhere was too good to turn down.
The plan is to drive down to Portimao, work in the Pirelli pits garage doing whatever and then drive home. All expenses paid, hotels every nice and wall to wall sunshine.....happy days!!
1st job is to get down to Didcot to collect the truck. My mate Harry, who runs Academy Motorsport and lives locally, was taking one of the trailers down so he picked me in his silver Scania and off we went.
Got to Didcot, sorted the trucks and trailers out and headed to Portsmouth. My trailer was loaded withg 543 Pirelli slicks for the Mclaren GT3 and 4's for the weekends action. The other guys had all the fitting and garage equipment as well as wet tyres and the balance of the slicks.
I was given a brand new Protyre DAF XF530 which is a brilliant truck so happy days. Harry was in his own R730 V8 Scania and Richard was in a clapped out old Pirelli Scania which had seen better days but was all they had spare. Most of their fleet was heading off to Russia for the F1.