Alan Mugglestone Freelance Motorsport Engineer

Over 150 race wins.         23 British, European and World Championship Titles

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE MOTORSPORT HISTORY OF ALAN MUGGLESTONE

AGE    42.               MARRIED   1 SON.             LIVES    SOUTH YORKSHIRE.

Alan Mugglestone's first memory of motor racing is one of cleaning clutch plates, in the Isle of Man, during TT week with his father, at the age of six. It was inevitable he would follow his father's footsteps in professional motor sport.

From the age of six through to sixteen he worked with his father designing, constructing and preparing motorcycle and sidecar 'outfits' for competition in the British and World championships. Taking numerous wins including the prestigious Isle of Man TT.

After taking time out from motor racing to gain 'official' qualifications with an apprenticeship at British Rail, he took up Motorsport again. This time as a driver in Superkarts.

1982 was a dream debut year for Alan, winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and finishing third in the season long championship

During 1983 he progressed to driving a Formula Ford racing car for 2 races at the end of the season, leading to a full championship year in 1984. The result of this was 4 wins, 3 pole positions and third in the British championship. Having retired from the diving seat at the end of 1984, he turned his talents back to running cars for other drivers. 1985 saw him run his own 2 car Formula Ford team with some success.

A two-year spell in Formula One followed with F.O.R.C.E. and Brabham where he learned the structures necessary for a 'professional team'. With the closure of Brabham, 1988 saw Alan involved with G.E.M. in the European Formula 3000 Championship.

A brief spell at Lola Cars, constructing Indy Cars for America followed until a chance meeting with businessman David Balfe occurred during 1989. David needed someone to help set up and operate a professional team for 1990, and a deal was struck to found Fortec Motorsport. With the right amount of financial backing and Mugglestone in full control, the team had two very successful seasons. Winning the Formula Renault Championship in 1990 with Brazilian driver Thomas Erdos and in 1991 with Londoner Bobby Verdon-Roe.

Unfortunately a change of policy from David Balfe resulted in Alan electing not to continue with Fortec, and for 1992 he switched camps to Minister International. This brought a third Formula Renault title with Pedro De La Rosa.

Formula Renault was once again on the agenda for 1993. This time setting up a team for young South African Garth Waberski. One pole position and one win were the highlights of the year, finishing in 5th place in the championship.

It was back to winning championships in 1994, this time in Formula Three. Duncan Vercoe taking the B Class title with 12 wins from 14 starts.

Alan continued as Team Manager and Chief Engineer at the D.A.W. Racing Formula Three Team for 1995, resulting in Garth Waberski scoring his first F3 points, and Werner Lupberger finishing 3rd in the B class championship despite missing 2 races with family problems.

1996 saw Alan set up TMR and with the DAW assets transferred to Alan's own team they had a memorable season with the drivers finishing 2nd and 3rd in the F3 B class championship with seven wins to their credit (no one else won more than three).

Taking on a commercial partner for the start off 1997 resulted in a change of direction and name for the team to ADR Motorsport. With the publicity benefits of the TOCA package in mind it was decided to enter the newly launched Vectra Sri V6 championship with two novice drivers and spend the year learning about front wheel drive saloon cars.

1998 turned out to be a very successful year with no less than three championship titles. This year also marked the successful start of a new venture for Alan working for teams on a consultancy basis, winning the Nordic Formula Three Championship.

1999 saw ADR Motorsport graduate to the British Touring Car Championship with its Vectra champion of 1998, Mark Blair. With an aging Vectra, the team pulled off some fantastic results to win the Michelin racer of the year award. Alan’s Consultant engineering business again secured 2 further championship successes, Winning the Vectra Sri V6 title again and ending up the year as World Champion (privateers division) in the FIA GT championship.

With the down turn in Touring cars and an increase in the demand for Alan’s Engineering skills, the year 2000 marked the start of a total freelance service for Alan.

Taking on the project of turning the Marcos LM 600 Evolution GT racer into a competitive package gave Alan the chance to use his design skills, modifying the suspension layout with great success. By mid season the car was competitive at every round and won the Suzuka 1000K race in August.

The Marcos car and team went from strength to strength as the year progressed, collecting the British and Spanish GT titles.

Along with projects in British and European Formula Renault, World Sports Cars and occasional trips to the Portuguese FF2000 Championship, means Alan has had a busy but rewarding year.

The icing on the cake came by adding the 5 round end of season Formula Renault winter championship title to take the total haul to twenty championships won over an incredible career.

2001 couldn’t have been better with Carl Breeze wining the British Formula Renault Championship under Alan’s guidance and Rob Bell adding a 3rd on the trot winter championship win with a perfect score.  A memorable month of June saw Alan having a key involvement with the successful return of MG cars to Le-Mans.  Heading up the Lexus Engineering program from mid season on saw a dramatic improvement in form with the car being competitive shortly after Alan’s first race with the team.

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