MARTIN SHORT BIO

1987

1988

1989

I started racing at club level at the age of 27, winning Kitcar Championship

Brief single seater career - soon give up (too dangerous even for me!)

Founded Rollcentre, building roll cages for various clients including McLaren for F1 GT car.

1989 - 1990

1991 - 1995

1995 - 1999

2000

Competed in a one make saloon Championship (Metro Turbos)

Rover one make racing. Started running cars for clients. Champ runner-up

TVR one make racing, championship runner -up, 3rd place three years running

Designed and built TBR Cerbera GTO car for TVR. Became the first car in the world to beat the Porsche GT3, and first to finish a 24 hour race (at Spa)

2001

Helped new design of TVR Tuscan R and ran works car in British GT. Took car to the Suzuka Circuit in Japan and finished second in 1000 km

2002

TVR Tuscan R in British GT. Lead the Championship for the season but lost out in the last race.

Became Mosler race car Agent for UK, Europe and rest of the World. Took the car to Bathurst in Australia and finished 2nd overall in 24 hour race.

2003

Built and sold Moslers into Europe, and won British GT with our car. Went to Bathurst again with amateur drivers and finished 5th overall. Competed in Daytona 24 hours and finished 3rd in class with a Saleen.

2004

Bought two Dallara Judd LMP1 cars. Entered Sebring 12 hours and finished 5th overall, 4th in LMP1 behind three Audis. We were third for much of the race until throttle cable broke. Competed in Le Mans Series and Le Mans 24 hour race. At 7.00 am was in 4th place overall in our first Le Mans, when we were hit by another car, resulting in a huge accident a Porsche Curves and did not finish. Continued to build and sell Moslers. Designed and developed Noble M12 GT car for Noble cars.

2005

Worked with Nismo and fitted their engine into the second Dallara and ran at Sebring, LMS and Le Mans 24 hours. Wasn't a great engine and went back to running a Judd. First Dallara had good success at LMS and Le Mans 24 hour leading the race outright at one point, albeit briefly and with me driving at the time, until a power steering leak saw us drop down the order. Finished Le Mans Series in 4th place after briefly leading the series.

Established Mosler Europe, and was responsible for the build of fifty road Moslers

and race car build Mosler won the inaugural Britcar Silverstone 24 hours race.

2006

Worked with Radical to develop their new Peter Ellary designed LMP2 car. It was a fast but fragile car which finished Le Mans 24 hours. A difficult time, working with a company new to Le Mans.

2007

Bought a Pescarolo LMP1 car, and achieved podiums in LMS, and a rth overall at Le Mans 24 hours, best result by a private team in a decade, first British team and drivers home, honoured with awards from the BRDC.

Designed and built new Mosler GT3 car, and carried out all National Homologation work. Continued to build, sell, race and support Moslers throughout the world.

2008

Pescarolo ran again in LMS and Le Mans 24 hours with customers. The banking crisis hit and after a happy nine year relationship with Deutsche Bank we loose our major sponsors.

2009

Focus on Mosler and establish entry in Malaysia and entries in Australian GT with four cars entered in the GT Series.

Competing myself in Dutch Supercar Challenge with factory Mosler and win the Championship.

2010

Continue to support Mosler sales around the world and take part in selected races. Develop and build new Mosler Super GT300 which enters Japanese GT series, using a Judd engine. Carried out all design of new spaceframe chassis and aero work using CFD, working with Cranfield University, carrying out crash tests. Moslers continue to campaign in Dutch Supercar, Australian GT, VdeV series, Belcar, and Spanish GT amongst others.

2011

Continue to support Mosler with selected Dutch Supercar races for me, and Australian GT, VdeV, Dutch Supercar Challenge, Super GT and Spanish GT.

Worked with Ginetta on the development work on the new Ginetta GT3 G55 project.