Words by Chris Knox, phot os by Dave Young Photos Another season has finished and it has been a quite a rollercoaster year! We end ed up taking the Power Maxed MINI Challenge overal l title by eighty points and becoming the first ever rep eat winner in the series. So lets go back and recap the 2014 season! It wasn’t looking like I was going to be competing this year until a few days before the season started. My manager and the SL Group owner had struck a last minute deal to get me on the grid, wit h initial backing from shopplay .co.uk. We again ran with 34 © MotorWerks Magazine - The Ultimate Reading Experience! 98
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such a great job when I too k the title back in 2011. Arrivin g at the first round it still wasn’t known in the paddo ck that I was competing, so I think I took a few people by surprise! With little testing I put the car was on pole by a big margin! I hadn’t lost my touch! However thi ngs didn’t stay on a high for long! Races one and two at Donington Park were amon g the most frustrating I have ever encountered in all my years of racing. Three laps into the race while leading comfortably, the engine powe r dropped off slightly and I