It was 2002. We were all sitting in a hotel bar in Belgium, after an enjoyable weekend watching the Spa 24-hour endurance race. After a few beers, it became clear, as these things do, that we had more than enough talent in that room to race ourselves. I mean, how hard could it be? And so on.
Then Kirsty, who had been listening with increasing exasperation, said, "Well, if you're that good, why don't you form a team?"
Before very long we'd begged and borrowed enough gear to talk our way into the KRC final as a wild card entry. The bike got severely bent, but we'd learnt enough to realise that we had the talent and the drive, and that if we were going to do this seriously we had to get ourselves onto a more professional footing. We raised some cash, found some sponsors, and thus was Uprite Racing born.
In 2005, we made the podium, and came within a hair's breadth (or, perhaps, a sump drain plug) of winning the championship. In 2006, we succeeded in winning the 750cc championship. In 2007 we switched to 1000cc, and after a shaky start, won every race that we finished. We are now looking forward to 2008.