Dave Rippard has been around Minis since the early- to mid-1980s. "I used to go rallying with a friend and then I joined the autograss scene and then started racing." Although not one to brag about his achievements he was a pretty good racer. "It was Minis in the juniors and then I just progressed with that over 10 years. I was National Champion in 1997 and British Champion in 1998 in a Class 1 Mini. I also won Champion of Champions. In the early days, when I was doing autograss, we'd find a shell, you'd rip it all out, race it and then skip it, bin it or burn it. People bought an S from a scrapyard, took out all the seats and burned them and welded the doors shut. It was a good part of my life, crashing Minis, but now I'm putting them back together." Quite right too!
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