Team BRIT
5
MENTIONS
3
EPISODES
3
PODCASTS
Search complete. 5 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Team BRIT".
Oct 1, 2026
Johnny MacHOST
I use a normal knife and fork." At age two, he started watching motorcycle racing with his grandfather.
Johnny MacHOST
Years later, he contacted Team Brit, whose racing drivers all have disabilities.
Johnny MacHOST
He explained, "The racing started off with an email expressing my interest in racing, and I said if they were interested in making my dreams come true, I'd be forever grateful.
Johnny MacHOST
They got back to me.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
Then all of a sudden, I get a message from a good friend, Mike Yao, who runs Simply Race in Milton Keynes and Manchester as well now.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
He said, Team Brit are looking for a commentator for their summer series on Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
Would you be interested? I was like, okay.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
Yeah.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
So I then got in touch with the man who was the founder and the man who brought Team Brit into motorsport, Dave Player, who I've known for many years.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
And I think without him, I don't think my sim racing commentary career would have gone off to how many peaks and troughs it's had over the past six and a half years.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
But I don't think that if I, well, if I hadn't taken that opportunity, Ryan, I would not be with Race Spot.
Alex GoldsmithGUEST
I wouldn't be with Global Sim Racing Channel.
Billy MongerGUEST
I was back testing after about nine months, but I actually got my race licence back in a VW Beetle that had been adapted for ex-military veterans and soldiers that had had accidents similar to myself to be able to drive.
Billy MongerGUEST
It's a team called Team Brit, and they basically... use it as a tool to help you know people from the the army and from the military sort of a form of therapy almost to get them back into the working world to be able to try something new and to be able to feel part of a team so that's kind of what the team's built around and they had these hand controls already built for other people with disabilities and they kind of invited me quite early on after my accident to come and drive this VW Beetle on my local track at Brands Hatch.
Billy MongerGUEST
And that was 11 weeks after my accident.
Billy MongerGUEST
And I got my race license back on the day, which was a real shock how quickly that happened.