Profile: John Gil

Name: John Gil D.O.B: 31-10-57 Birth Place : Bilston, West Midlands Height: 6'1 Occupation: Semi-Retired Eyes: Blue Hobbies : Motor racing, Cruise Holidays, Classic Car Restoration Favourite race circuits: Donnington Park, Anglesey International    Current Road Car: Range Rover Sport Sporting heroes: Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna A brief racing history about myself: I have over 25 trophies from all my forms of racing I first started racing in 1993 at the tender age of 35 racing 100cc Karts

Karting Sucess:

After a break I got back into racing this time in the from of Autograss racing where I raced in Class 1 (1000cc Mini)
Success

• 2003 1st B Final Star Autograss Club
• 2003 4th Star Autograss Club Championship

I then moved onto stock rod non-contact racing in the form of Hotford Racing XR2 and XR3 1600cc cars
Success

• 2005 1st Autumn Championship Birmingham Wheels
• 2006 2No Heat Wins, Qualified on Pole for final Llandow Oval Mile Championship
• 2006 1st Heat one 1st in Final crowned 2006 Hednesford Open Champion
• 2007 2nd in Final Birmingham Wheels

2008 Caterham Academy race series I competed in two sprints one hill climb and at four races in which I ended up 13th overall out of 26 competitors this being my first year with the Caterham I was more than happy with my final position in the championship.