Steve Broughton

When I left school I started work at British Aerospace and met Dick. During the year's he was rallying I used to help him out preparing his car and began to tune his engine. When Dick gave up rallying in 1986, I decided to give it a go myself (so it's all Dick's fault). My budget was quite small and I used to rally a Chevette, spending all my waking hours and every penny of my income just to go and compete whenever I could afford it. I used to buy components and even engines of of various companies.

As time progressed, I began building my own engines. With the knowledge I had gained working at British Aerospace and from a large majority of my friends who still worked there, I found I could build engines every bit as well as the ones I had been buying.

As my knowledge increased, so did the performance of my engines. Unfortunately my pocket would not always allow me to spend what I wanted to and then in 1992 the business I was currently working in began to fade, so I decided the only other interest I had was in motorsport, so I bit the bullet and started SBD.

Carole Torkington

When I joined SBD, it was an obvious move for me, because my spare time at home was taken up with family coming around to repair, rebuild or redesign parts of the rally cars that we store in our garage.

I have lost track of the hours spent making tea, sandwiches and offering a spare hand to hold the lead light when things just won't go right. Back in the 'good old days' of events at Goodwood, it was always my job to video the excursions into the bushes or across the grass of the various cars taking part, in between making more tea and cooking on a disposable barbeque in the pouring rain. I think you could say the idea was 'if you can't beat them, join them' when coming to SBD.

Kim Kingham

When I joined SBD in 2002, it was only to pack & unpack parcels when we were busy, however my job has gradually changed over the years. I now maintain the web site, produce our catalogue, design all the adverts & leaflets for events & the Autosport Show, take photos of the cars at events.

Although I work part-time, my hours are usually to suit whatever job that needs doing at the time, whether it's finding out last minute information or collecting that all-important bit from the local supplier!

I was Steve's tyre-warmer in the OMS for 3 years, winning the Chater Lea Ladies Trophy at the Brighton Speed Trials & British Sprint Patsy Burt Trophy in 2006. Unfortunately I had a major accident at Cadwell Park in 2006 & have since retired from competing. I still come to most events with Steve (usually as the chauffeur!) to act as pit crew & photographer.

Craig Sampson

Motorsport has always been an interest of mine, but I initially discounted it as a career as most people that I spoke to suggested that the industry was simply to hard to get in to, luckily my school boy arrogance paid off as I decided that I could make a go of it, my expected GCSE results came in which got me the position at Windsor college for a BTEC National Diploma in Motorsport Engineering.

I spent two fun years "studying" for my National Diploma, which mainly consisted of building a mini-cross car with my classmates as our group project, we then competed at several events with this car.

Following on from this in 2002, I enrolled on an HND in Motorsport Engineering course at Brooklands College. In my first year I had a two weekwork experience placement, I was lucky enough that Steve accepted me at SBD, I enjoyed every minute of my two weeks & it would seem that for some strange reason Steve wanted me working for him as I was told that if I ever needed a job, to get in touch! Soon after this I took Steve up on his offer and started working part time for him whilst at college.After my HND I decided to do a final full time year at Kingston University in order to achieve a status of BEng In Motorsport Engineering, I continued working at SBD during this time, which gave me vital real world experience in the industry. I followed up my BEng with a final part time year at Kingston in order to attain a Degree with Honours.