Accord joins Dodd squad

July 7, 2014

Fourteen years after James Thompson raced it to fourth place in the 1999 British Touring Car Championship, his old Honda Accord shone again in the hands of James Dodd during the Super Touring Trophy race at the Oulton Park Gold Cup.

Dodd’s father Graeme recently located the car in Montenegro, where it had been used in hillclimbs. He arranged to buy it with an extensive spares package and brought it back to run alongside their ex-works Nissan Primera.

“It was on a bit of a wing and a prayer,” said James, but after eight laps of testing the car ran faultlessly. They now plan to race one car each in 2014.

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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