Nick Padmore Racing
For the past seven years I have written articles for local papers for Nick Padmore (and posted on Twitter for him on numerous occasions), starting with the Surrey Mirror Group and then switching to the West Sussex County Times when Nick moved a couple of years ago (examples on next page).
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This started when I was already provding Motorsport articles to the Surrey Mirror and saw a small piece about Nick, so I contacted him to see if I could write about his racing and see if I could obtain greater coverage. We arranged to meet at the upcoming Masters Historic Festival at Brands Hatch and spoke about what I could do. He had a successful race weekend as he took two victories in a Williams FW07C that became the first of twelve consecutive wins to secure the championship, I took photos and wrote a report. The Surrey Mirror published that report with a pic and we have continued from there. I write for him about events I cannot get to (especially abroad) as I can use results, lap charts and occasionally view live race feeds online so that I can piece together how it all unfolds and I get snippets of info plus quotes from Nick to assist the writing.
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Nick is one of the top racers in historic motorsport in Europe and has enjoyed a very successful career in Motorsport - he is now a four time Champion in Masters Historic Formula 1 championships having won the 4th in an excellent 2023 season with Britec Motorsports/Chrome Cars driving their ex Gunnar Nilsson Lotus 77. This is the second time he has won the Pre '78 class driving the same car, but with different teams, and the 2023 success gained enough points to claim overall victory as well. Nick also won the same Championship twice driving the ex Carlos Reutemann Williams FW07C, again achieving success with the same car but with different teams. He is also the outright lap record holder at Goodwood thanks to his efforts in an Arrows A11 at the timed shootout at the Race Week event in 2020.He also holds the historic racing lap record at the circuit from a race winning performance in a Lola T70 Spyder sports car. He is equally competitive in Historic F1 or a Classic Mini and has raced a wide variety of machinery from Karts through to those F1 cars. Nick has been a full BRDC member for the past few years ( an honour which is earned through results ) and has been part of the Williams Heritage Team driving some of their most prized older cars for demonstration runs etc.
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He is also widely regarded for his driver coaching abilities and has coached amateur and professional drivers all around the globe, at a variety of ability levels and aspirations, as he shares his experience, knowledge and expertise with those drivers. His driver development programme has seen him successfully improve the lap times for many a driver, with a particularly satisfying result just recently - as Ed Foster won the Lavant Cup driving an MGB at the Goodwood Revival, thus recording his first ever race win.
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Ed has kindly supplied the following testimonial regarding Nick's coaching:
"I started using Nick as a driver coach about three years ago and the progress has been extraordinary. He's helped improve the car and improved me by a margin of three seconds a lap. He never goes out with a point to prove and simply revels in his pupil getting faster. He's become a great friend of the back of it all. Never in our wildest dreams would we have thought I'd end up winning the Lavant Cup at the Goodwood Revival this year. Without Nick's guidance and support it never would have happened."
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You can learn more about the Driver Development Programme that Nick provides by visiting:-
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