The AA’s innovative Racing team was set up in 2000 by The AA’s Director of Road Services (at that time, Peter Tyer ) The concept was and still is to provide AA Patrols the platform to shop-window their skills as mechanics and to provide the AA and it’s business partners a unique hospitality opportunity for clients and business colleagues to enjoy Motor Racing in it’s most evocative form. The 1970’s were in many respects the heyday for Motorsport with names like, Graham Hill, Jochen Rindt, Jackie Stewart, Ronnie Peterson, and many others mixed both Formula 1 and Formula 2 racing programmes. These were the days before mega budgets changes the face of top classmotosport for ever…

In it’s short period within the International Historic Motorsport arena the team has had considerable success. In 2002 AA Driver John Dunham became F2 series Class B champion and in 2003 Peter Shaw followed up by winning the Atlantic class championship in the International F2 trophy, with class wins in Monza, Spa Francorchamps, and numerous other podium placings.

In 2004 the team focussed on UK based meetings and entered the HSCC’c fantastic Derek Bell series for historic single seater machinery. Some success followed with class victory at Silverstone and other podium places during the season.

During the past 5 years some members of the team have changed and each person has made a superb contribution. A fact that we were particularly proud of is that in our first International Formula 2 season the team had the highest finishing rate in the class which was a testament to the good work of the teams technicians.

The AA Team have undergone training to bring them “up to speed” in the specialised world of Formula 2 cars and have risen to the challenge with great enthusiasm.

All the team give their personal time freely to the project because of a mutual enthusiasm for Historic Motorsport and also we’re sure because of the great atmosphere and camaraderie in the team. The AA people involved come from many different parts of the organisation all working for the common goal of winning races and enjoying their sport!

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