After competitively racing stock cars many years ago, fellow competitor and friend Joe Parrington persuaded Tom to buy an MGB GTV8 to restore back in 1991. After many hard months of work on the car, it was looking like new, and Tom was persuaded to race in class B of the MGCC BCV8 Championship, as Joe had been in a similar car for the previous couple of seasons.

At his first race, Cadwell Park in 1992, Tom finished a credible third in class and became instantly hooked with the concept of motorsport once again. Beginning to compete more regularly, Tom continued to improve what was a relatively uncompetitive car as best as he could. Unfortunately, the weight and handling of the big V8 was no match for the lighter more nimble 1950cc B's. This was proved at Lydden Hill when Tom followed an MGB through a corner, and barely made it out of the other side!!

It was at this point that, after 3 reasonably successful years of class B, that it was time to progress to class C. This class caters for ‘soft-tuned' MGB V8‘s along with full race MGB's. And it was at this point that CTS Racing was born, as Tom's friend Andy Cooper offered his help. After an extremely frought winter preparing another car ready for class C, the first race was again at Cadwell Park. And, once again Tom finished third in class, despite some very close competition!

Now racing alongside more equal machinery, the talent of Tom Stewart began to show. This was made possible by the expertise of Andy Cooper, providing an immensly reliable car. Despite strong competition from the likes of Suzi Hart-Banks, Jonathon Palmer and Peter Collis, Tom clinched the class title by just 1 single point in his first year of class C. 1996 did not go totally to plan for Tom Stewart and CTS Racing, as 3 consecutive accidents in the latter part of the season meant that we cut our losses and opted for early retirement, although still managing third in class.

1997 proved to be the most successful year to date for CTS Racing though, with 12 wins from 12 starts, 11 of them with fastest lap providing Tom Stewart with the overall championship with a maximum of 147.5 points. After winning the overall championship and the class championship for the second time, Tom decided to progress to the highest level within the championship - class D!!

After another hectic winter upgrading the car from class C to D, the car was ready for the second round of 1998. Can you guess where? Yep, Cadwell Park once again! Having only just finished the car in time, this round was spent ‘running the car in' and so there were celebrations all round when we finished in an impressive second place in class (3rd overall)!! We also entered into the last race of the day here - the Allcomers race - in which we claimed our first overall win with this car, even beating a TVR Tuscan!!

In our third championship race, which was at Snetterton, Tom beat off all the competition to win by an awesome 10 seconds proving immediately that he had quckly come to terms with the extra power of class D! From this race on, the lead became a constant scrap between Peter Collis and ourselves, although occasionally coming too close for comfort and the two drivers coming into contact. In fact, the season was so closely fought that the class D honours came right down to the final round at Donington Park. It was here that basically, whoever finished ahead claimed the class honours! In a very wet qualifying session, Peter Collis ended up with a front row grid position, whilst Tom was back on row 7! With the best start of the year, Tom was on Peter's boot lid by the first corner and after eight laps, along with several position changes, it was Tom Stewart who eventually took the win by just 4 tenths of a second!!

1999, 2000 and 2001 saw us take a step back from the world of motorsport, and we competed in only a handful of events throughout the whole three years. 2002 saw our return, and was the first year we competed in two championships side by side, with us racing in both the BCV8 Championship and also the Northern Saloon and Sports Car Championship. Here we competed against marques such as Porsche, BMW, TVR, Marcos and an almighty 600bhp Ford Cosworth. Although the smallest powered car of our class, we did enjoy the racing, but alas did not return for 2003.

Following on from enjoying the racing of the past few seasons, we decided to particioate in the majority of the 2003 BCV8 Championship but luck was not on our side with several non finishes and an unhappy car by the end of the season! Much hard work over the 2003/2004 winter preparing the car for 2004, and we could only hope for better fortunes! And for this year we were competing in the newly established V8 Rolling Thunder Series alongside the BCV8 championship, allowing another avenue to be explored for our car!

2004 saw a continuation of the 2003 'curse', however, as following a string of 3 wins from 3 races, the luck was about to run out in a spectacular way. Snetterton saw us competing in both the V8 series and BCV8 Championship on the same day, and after a troublesome qualifying, the car only just made the grid for the first race - the V8 series. This would last until the first corner as a nudge saw Tom pushed into an uncontrolable spin into the armco which would result in us not able to compete in most of the season!!

For 2005, only the BCV8 Championship is available, as the V8 Series has been discontinued due to lack of entries. Will our luck change this time around?? Lets hope so...

I hope this has provided a bit of an insight into CTS Racing, and look forward to seeing you at the circuits!!