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1990
Trevor Powell founds Profile Seating Systems, and
the company's Pro-Seat product rapidly gains a deserved
reputation as the safest and most comfortable choice
of seat for top-level single-seater racers.
1991
Seat debutants with Jordan to become the first Formula
One team to use the Pro-Seat.
1996
South
West Racing makes a low-key motorsport entry in
the second half of the season, assisting Chris Buncombe's
Formula Vauxhall Junior campaign.
1997
SWR switches to Formula Renault Sport as the official
Swift works team. A glamorous launch event at Nigel
Mansell's golf complex and a number of prominent
sponsorship partners suggest a bright future for
the team, but the inadequacies of the outdated Swift
chassis result in the project fizzling out in disappointing
circumstances.
1999
In partnership with the experienced ME Motorsport
team, SWR runs a team of three Mygales in the second-string
BARC Formula Renault class. Team leader Elliot Lewis
wins eight races and the championship title but
it's the startling progress of his 16-year-old team-mate
Craig Fleming that really impresses. Christian McCarty
splits with the team at mid-season but has already
done enough to secure fifth in the championship.
2000
The ME Motorsport/SWR partnership takes Craig Fleming
into the Scholarship Class of the British Formula
Three championship, with assistance from future
Duma Racing owner Hugh Oliver-Bellasis. Running
an ex-Fortec Motorsport Dallara-Mugen Honda, the
team initially takes the fight to class favourite
Gary Paffett. Fleming makes an instant impression:
shrugging off a nightmarish build-up to qualify
second in class at the very wet Thruxton season
opener. Several class podium finishes follow but,
frustrated by a lack of progress, SWR and Oliver-Bellasis
split with ME and pull Craig out of the series in
mid-summer.
2004
SWR make a long-overdue return to competition in
the inaugural Formula BMW UK Championship. 2 Wins,
3 Poles Positions.
2005
SWR expand into 2 squads for British Formula 3 National
Class and the Formula BMW UK Championship
2006
SWR run Leo & Greg Mansell in Formula BMW UK
Championship
Sold
Team SWR to Nigel Mansell
Formed
TeamLOCTITE to compete in Formula
BMW UK & British Formula 3 International Series
(National Class)
In
Formula BMW TeamLOCTITE
ran Oliver Turvey who won his first race with the
new team and was second in his second race at a
very wet Brands Hatch. The team then went on to
record many more wins and podium finishes throughout
the season with Turvey finishing second overall
in the 2006 Formula BMW UK Championship. He then
went on to win the highly prestigious 2006 McLaren
Autosport BARC Young Driver of the Year Award.
2007
TeamLOCTITE
ran three rookie drivers in the Formula
BMW UK Championship. Rookies in different ways Rupert
Svendsen Cook had never even driven a car when he
first tested at Snetterton with the team in mid
January 2006. Sam Abay despite having finished second
overall in the Asian Championship had never driven
on a UK circuit, and Jordan Williams had finished
second in his Ginetta Junior Championship but had
never raced a Single seater.
It
was a demanding season with the high points being
Jordans podium finish in the penultimate race
at Knockhill, being a just reward for his dogged
determination and his skill in making his way ahead
of drivers such as, Josef Kral (second in the Championship),
Henry Arundel (third
in the Championship) and Henry Surtees (fourth in
the Championship). Jordan also set a new lap record
jointly with Henry Surtees in their storming run
from the back of the grid at Snetterton and he astounded
viewers with his fight back following a drive through
penalty at Donington Park having started from P3
on the grid to finish P7 in a shortened race.
2008
TeamLOCTITE
will run two National Class, British Formula 3 International
cars alongside their VdeV Fr sportscar programme.
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