44 Jaguar XJS V12
When the car first appeared, it had an automatic gearbox but now sports an ex-Peter Blank manual box, so Andrew has had to get used to an extra pedal. Andrew won the series 1998/1999 - by just 2 points or half a bonnet length from the writer! A deserving champion who expresses his absolute enjoyment after each race by leaping out of the car and yelling "yeeeeeha!!!," at the top of his voice...
Pukekohe 2000 Copyright � Positive Images
Updated April 2000
DRIVER Andrew Turpin
Before entering in our series in 1997, Andrew had competed in just two speed hillclimbs, the MGCC Otaua Classic Hillclimb (also organised by 75% of this committee...) and the Auckland Domain hillclimb organised by the TR (TRiumph) Register).
WHERE BORN |
Auckland NZ |
OCCUPATION |
Commercial Property Owner |
ENTRANT/SPONSOR |
The Jag Shop Kingsland |
INTERESTS OTHER THAN RACING (if any...) |
Relaxation, Holidays with the family. |
ALL TIME FAVOURITE RACING CAR/DRIVER |
Bruce McLaren & Stirling Moss |
STARTED RACING IN 1997 He had always wanted to try car racing (before he got too old) though it appears to him that you can never get too old for racing... Andrew stepped out of the silver Jaguar after his first race grinning from ear to ear - and the grin still hasn't faded...
Andrew very soon settled down to some respectable lap times. By the end of the 1997/98 season he was getting amongst the faster groups and in his second season he deservedly won the series.
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Andrew at Taupo - but you cannot see the little Lotus Elan on the inside of him... Photograph copyright � Ray Green |
