Chances are, if you have wandered around the pits of any historic racing event in the past few years, you’ve seen a sticker in the window of a winning car that reads ‘John Danby Racing’.
JDR has been quietly going about its business of preparing race-winning cars since 2002, and is at the forefront of the sport today.
The eponymous boss started out as a fresh-faced kid at Lotus, preparing Elises for the TOCA support races.
When that championship came to an end, he decided it was a good time to build a business for himself and promptly used his own experience of racing Sports 2000s.
“It seemed like a natural place to start,” says Danby, and he began preparing other race-winning cars in the championship.
“Then the realisation came that it wasn’t a terribly good place to make money.”
For his infant firm, the decision was made to step up to the world of historic racing.