TeamLOCTITE has its roots in Trevor Powell's Team SWR operation, which was a frontrunner and race winner in the early years of the Formula BMW UK Championship.

SWR was formed just four months prior to the start of the 2004 season, yet by the end of that year's Formula BMW Championship, it had firmly established itself among the absolute frontrunners - taking two victories in the final three races of the year. In fact the second of these wins was the most dominant seen in the 2004 championship, as SWR's Matt Howson stormed to victory by a crushing eight-second margin at Donington Park. These superb results topped a year that had already included Rookie class victories, podium finishes, three pole positions, and at least one car in the points in 18 of the season's 20 races. SWR driver Oliver Turvey, a winner at Rockingham, ended the season seventh in the championship despite missing two races due to prior academic commitments, while the team snatched fifth place in the entrants' standings at the final race of the year. For a squad that hadn't even existed a year earlier, these were very gratifying achievements.

SWR expanded in 2005 - running a four car Formula BMW team in addition to a two car attack on the British Formula Three National class. The latter programme got off to an outstanding start as Josh Fisher won SWR's first F3 race. Many podiums followed in both championships, with the highlight of the season being a spectacular one-two finish in the Mondello Park Formula BMW round. In difficult conditions SWR opted for a split strategy, with Matt Harris going for slick tyres and coming from last to first, while team-mate Turvey finished second on wets.

At the end of the 2005 season, SWR helped Nigel Mansell's sons Greg and Leo to make their car racing debut, running their first ever tests and Formula BMW races. Mansell's long term aim was always to operate his own team, and in April 2006 Powell decided to sell SWR's name and assets to the 1992 world champion.

This deal paved the way for the formation of TeamLOCTITE, a new partnership with the world leading high performance adhesives manufacturer. The team ran Turvey in the Formula BMW UK Championship in 2006 and guided him to 5 race wins, 7 pole positions and 10 podiums on the way to second in the Championsip; an astonoshing achievement considering they only participated in 14 of the 20 FBMW races that season.

Team Principal Trevor Powell continues to oversee the whole LOCTITE racing operation. He is best known as the man behind the Pro Seat racing car seating system, a device enthusiastically adopted by teams in Formula One, the Champ Car World Series and at virtually every level below. In addition to his seating business commitments, Powell has long championed and supported young talent, and was involved in several team management projects before forming Team SWR late in 2003.

His South West Racing team competed in Formula Vauxhall Junior and Formula Renault Sport in the mid-1990s before joining forces with West Country neighbours ME Motorsport. This new alliance subjugated all competition in the 1999 BARC Formula Renault Championship, appearing on the podium in every single race as lead driver Elliot Lewis dominated the series and his rapid young team-mate Craig Fleming astounded at every turn. The SWR-ME partnership took Fleming into Scholarship Class Formula Three for 2000, before Powell turned his attention to other projects, including his son Alex's karting career.

As well as being respected for the inspirational levels of professionalism and presentation that characterised SWR's single-seater programmes, Powell's revolutionary achievements in the field of racing car seating design have earned him the esteem of countless influential figures in the uppermost strata of motorsport on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, his Pro-Seat design first appeared in the US on the personal recommendation of no lesser figure than the great Mario Andretti.