At last, the rollcage arrived today. It's vital that we get this fitted into the car as soon as possible. Then we can figure out the fitment of the racing seat, harness, extinguisher, and dashboard pull cables. We're going to be calling on the welding talents of my step-dad Terry, who had previously helped us with our Nissan 200SX. I can forsee an awful lot of beer-bribery about to take place!

The first race at Snetterton is on the 14th April which leaves us just over a month to prepare the car. It sounds a lot of time, but I can't take any holiday from work at the moment and we're all novices at this so the pressure is on...