Ed had followed his son Gerry into Motorsport via the Porsche 924 championship, achieving his racing licence at the age of 65 in 1995. The idea of TFMS was to promote the foundries main product, Castings, through the medium of Motorsport.
Gerry went on to the win 924 crown in 1996 and moved up to Caterham racing for the 97 season in a 1.4 K-Series, Ed staying with the Porsches. During the 97 season Gerry by chance meet seasoned Caterham engineer Dave Ketteridge, who prepped Taylor's car for the last half of the year. With a new Caterham announced for 1998, the 1.6 Roadsport TFMS placed an order with Caterham Cars for a new chassis for Gerry so Ed could campaign the 1.4k in t he same races. Over the winter of 97/98 the new kit arrived, but who would build it? Ed and Gerry decided to offer a full time position to Dave Ketteridge to run both Cars in 98. After two races Gerry was 3rd overall, the current leader, Dave Clark approached the Taylors to ask if there was space for his car in the team. They took him under DK's wing and on he went to win the Championship with Gerry second and TFMS taking the team award.
This Opened the floodgates to other drivers and the success followed:
| 1999 |
Caterham Roadsport, 3rd Overall G Taylor. |
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| 2000 |
Caterham Roadsport, Winner John Gladman, Team Champions. |
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750 Club Caterham Superlight, Runner up John Gladman. |
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| 2001 |
Caterham Roadsport, Winner Martin Gregory, Team Champions. |
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Caterham Superlight, Runner up John Gladham. |
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| 2002 |
Caterham Roadsport, Third Jon Wolfe, Team Gladman. |
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Caterham Superlight, Runner up John Gladhman. |
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| 2005 |
Caterham R400, Winner Wil Mitcham. |
The team has also campaigned an ex Le Mans GT car in the British GT Championship.
We are currently running Caterhams in the UK C400 champs and the Euro C400 & CSR champs. Plus an Ex British Touring Car (Rickard Rydall's winning 2000 Mondeo) for Yorkshire man Bernard Hogarth.
The work shop offers full service and set up facilities for Race, Sports or Track Day Cars All supervised by Dave Ketteridge, chief engineer/director.
Contact:
01440 707273 workshop
01440 702870 office
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