Chris Wilson

I first met Ian and the BGMsport team at Daytona in for the inaugural Classic 24 hour race where they were running a beautifully prepared Competition Ferrari Daytona. The quality was such that even though I was living overseas at the time and aside from a few days sharing trackside garages with them, I decided to entrust them with the complete restoration and race preparation of an original Classiche accredited Ferrari 308 GrB rally car in readiness to compete in Modena Centre Ore, Italy.

Nothing phased the team in the following 18 month restoration period and we then debuted it at MCO where over 5 days of intense competition we came 2nd outright and just 1.3 seconds off a win in a freshly prepared car being run in anger for the very first time. The team were so professional in every aspect and such a pleasure to share time with over the course of the rally that we went onto do it again the following year where we were again doing well until the 'nut behind the wheel' caused all the problems with an off road excursion into the Armco that would of put most cars out of the running - however, working through the night the BGM team fixed the car and we ran super competitively for the remaining days all be it out of contention for another podium!

The quality of their work led to asking them to do a complete refresh and rebuild of my '65 AC Cobra, another very original car, and readying it to try and compete at the front of the grid in the current array of historic events. Over the course of a year and working with a number of external suppliers, as well as much track testing and development, we went onto campaign the car in 2017 in various GTSCC rounds and at the Goodwood Revival in the prestigious RAC TT race to good effect - once again, this traditionally 'rally focused' team proved to be just so calm, easy to work with and effective at supporting the and running the car.

Over the next two years we further tested and refined the car and then in 2019 we went onto win the Goodwood Revival RAC TT at just our second attempt as well as securing a new official lap record for a Cobra roadster of 1:24.071 with the car driven by André Lotterer. In possibly the highest profile and most hotly contested historic race on the calendar once again BGM and proved they are a match for any other race team there is whether rally or track focused. They've always managed to achieve tight deadlines, bring a faultlessly prepared car to any event, been a huge pleasure to spend time with (whether track side or in the bar!) and delivered all this on a very sensible budget. I now use BGM to run a number of different cars, have used them for support on track, rallies and at events such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed and simply could not recommend them more highly for any aspect of restoration , race or rally support.