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StitcherToday’s guest is Richard Asquith
Neil Wearden/Trevor Agnew Rally San Remo 1997 – pic credit unknown
If you’ve ever wondered how to impress a rally team boss, then this show is for you. Richard and his family started their own motorsport team, Asquith Autosport in the early 90s.
For over 20 years, they carefully selected several club drivers and helped propel them on to winning multiple World and British Rally Championships.
This is a list of just ten of those drivers; Jari-Matti Latvala, Mikko Hirvonen, Mark & David Higgins, Neil Wearden, Niall McShea, Robbie Head, Keith Cronin, Osian Price and Jukka Korhonen.
In 1997, they selected Neil Wearden and I, and welcomed us into their family team. A team that was incredibly professional and hugely successful, despite running on the smallest of budgets. Neil and I will be eternally grateful to the Asquith family for initially believing in us, then nourishing and helping us grow as competitors. We would never have had the confidence to achieve what we did, without their support. I know a lot of their other drivers and co-drivers feel the same way.
Here’s the suggested actions from this show.
Remember Richard was a hugely successful team owner and mentor. Therefore, these are top action points if you want to impress a current team manager, the judging panel of a young driver programme or award, an investor, a sponsor or simply to help with your own self-confidence.
- 14 mins 35 secs – work to build your skills, knowledge and attitude to be in the top 5% of the current talent pool
- 15 mins 10 secs – prove that you have a “total and utter commitment”
- 16 mins 09 secs – Demonstrate that you’re passionate about wanting to succeed, and in Richard’s words that “your heart wants to be World champion, not just your head” You are selling yourself, so being passionate will help convince people to help you.
- 21 mins 50 secs – Work on maximising your traction by increasing your feel and efficiency in relation to throttle control and steering input.
- 42 mins 40 secs – Stay in an under powered car until you can “wring it’s neck and show you’re supreme!” Balance that with finishing events so you can learn a lot more.
- 1 hour 10 mins 10 secs – Build up a good relationship with your team
- 1 hour 10 mins 55 secs – Earn respect from your team, you can’t buy it
- 1 hour 11 mins 25 secs – Listen to people and try to learn from them
- 1 hour 12 mins 20 secs – Be honest about money, transparency & integrity are vital if you want to progress
- 1 hour 13 mins 39 secs – Finally, savour the moment. Enjoy competing and all your victories, big and small along the way….
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