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RALLY DRIVER WING LATEST POWERBOAT NEWCOMER TO JOIN P1 SUPERSTOCK
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London, 16 February : Rally driver Simon Wing (Newark, Nottinghamshire) is the latest powerboat racing newcomer to join the P1 SuperStock Championship as entries for the 2012 season continue to flood in thick and fast.
Wing, who celebrates his 37th birthday today (Thursday, 16 February), has been competing in club-level motorsport for 20 years and intends to dovetail his ongoing rallying involvement with his maiden season of powerboat racing.
“I’ve never been on the water in my life so this is all totally new but I wanted to do something different, alongside the rallying, and with the P1 SuperStock season being just five weekends it all fits in really well”, said the powerboat novice, “I wasn’t sure what to look at doing originally but I saw P1 advertised, thought it looked really interesting and here I am.”
The Nottinghamshire clubman, who is a kitchen manufacturer by trade with his own business Newark Joinery, has competed in a variety of cars over the years in rallying, from Ford Escorts and Ford Sierra Cosworths to Peugeot 205s and Subaru Imprezas.
Particular rallying highlights include finishing first in class in the 2007 Carlton and District Motor Club Single Venue Championship andsecond in class in the Rainworth Skoda EMAMC Multi-Use Stage Rally Championship.
Wing’s powerboat racing debut will come during the opening round of the season on 19/20 May, the Plymouth Grand Prix of the Sea, but before then he will be required to undertake official training in order to obtain his competition licence. “I start my licence training in a couple of weeks so I’m looking forward to that and hoping I can do all four days in one go”, he added.
There is a strong synergy, of course, between P1 SuperStock and rallying with the use of a driver and navigator in both sporting disciplines. Before the start of his maiden season in powerboats, Wing is on the look-out for someone to partner him in the five events between May and September.
Any navigators interested in teaming-up with Simon Wing in the headline P1 250 Class are invited to contact SuperStock UK Championship Manager Paolo Callea on 07826 947092 or by email to JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
