| About Motorsport World |
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Colin |
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| Alexa My other half. Alexa’s background is in banking, book-keeping and office management and since she also assisted in the early stages of building the business I decided she would be an asset to MSW so poached her from her job in July 2002. Since then she has also brushed up her knowledge of cars and has occasionally helped out in sales. Car: Impreza STi V2 |
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| Garry Garry comes to us from Piper Cams where he worked in their sales department for 9 years, so he comes to us with an excellent background in our industry and a great enthusiasm for fast cars and tuning. Garry started at Piper two days before I launched MSW, so it was often a case of blind leading the blind in those early days! Car: Mk1 Skoda Octavia VRS |
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I
started Motorsport World on 23 November 2000 after a career as a
mechanical engineer specialising on the scientific side of gas flow,
gaining a PhD in the subject in 1989. I became manager of the laboratory
that maintains the UK National Standards for gas flowrate and also
worked at one of the world’s leading engine design companies
on inlet and exhaust port design. But, as with many people, I had
always dreamt of running my own business but it took the usual mid-life
crisis at the grand old age of 40 to make me do something about
it. Whatever my business was going to be it was always going to
involve cars for which I have had a life long passion. I also found
the internet fascinating when it came along and decided to join
the two to make a business. I tried various things but naturally
homed in on the performance parts mail-order business and aimed
at providing a service that I would like to receive as a customer.
I fought from the beginning to keep prices down whilst providing
the best service possible and it paid off with rapid growth year
on year, becoming a top ten company for a number of the brands you
will see in this website.