Racing
Fender-Broad are heavily invested in motorsport. Neil Fender raced historic Formula Ford and HSCC 50s Sports Car races with some success before handing the reigns over to Angus to carry the mantle. Angus is an ARDS qualified racing instructor with 3 British GT podiums with McLaren and BMW along with countless other victories throughout the motorsport ranks.
Having gone through the ranks in Cadet and Junior karting, Angus was crowned British Vice-Champion in 2016 before moving onto car racing. 2017 saw Angus start his car racing journey in the Ginetta GT5 Challenge before graduating to the GT4 Supercup the following season claiming 2 Pole Positions and 8 Podiums over the season. The team Angus was racing for at the time saw the potential Angus had and moved him into Endurance Racing with BMW for 2019 in the GT4 class. 2 Pole Positions followed in the first half of the season before the team moved Angus into the bigger, faster GT3 class for the final two rounds of the 2019 season. Being the youngest GT3 driver in the series history at just 18, Angus claimed two podiums in two races to end the 2019 season on a high.
2020 saw Angus move to McLaren, yet again in GT3 and claim another podium over a season highly influence by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Following on from this, Angus took a small step back from racing to focus on his Motorsport Engineering Degree at Oxford Brookes University but still raced on occasion in several series, claiming class podiums at the 24 Hours of Dubai, 24 Hours of Barcelona and winning twice in the BRITCAR Endurance Championship at Oulton Park.
In 2022, Angus continued with his degree but was chosen by BMW to debut the brand new BMW M4 GT3 in Britain. Angus drove the still developing car to strong personal results in British GT. Once Angus finished his degree in July of the same year, he became more invested in Fender-Broad and purchased a race car with Neil, a 2007 Dodge Viper GT3 which he restored and drove to class pole at the 2022 Silverstone Classic, claimed class victory at the British Endurance Championship at Oulton Park and won the Castle Combe Sports and GT series before selling the Viper overseas.
Angus has recently scaled-up his involvement in Fender-Broad and has purchased a Ligier JS2R to race in Europe with a team founded by himself. He got his ARDS Racing Instructor qualification in early 2024 and is excited to start tutoring the next generation of race winners and champions.
Fender-Broad wins at Combe Countdown
As any of our customers or friends will know, we are racing enthusiasts and love the feeling of pushing a car to its limits on a track. Recently Neil and I were able to purchase a Ligier JS2R GT Sports car to replace our fantastic Viper, which we saw great success in between April 2022 and October 2023 before it sold to a new owner. As we hadn’t yet turned any laps in anger with the new car, we decided to enter the Castle Combe GT Championship in August as a shakedown for the new car, and to see how it performed against significantly more expensive machinery.
Fender-Broad at the Silverstone Classic
The Silverstone Classic is well-regarded as one of the world’s very finest historic race meetings. From Pre-War vintage Bentleys and Bugattis to moder, cutting edge Le Mans endurance racers from the early 2010s, the depth and variety of this tribute to competition is always a fantastic occasion.
In 2022, my father Neil and I decided to invest in a 2007 Dodge Viper GT2 to race and having entered into the Masters Historic series and the Masters Endurance Legends class with other fantastic Le Mans racers from the 2000s and 2010s, competing in the Silverstone Classic 2022 was sure to be a very surreal event.
GRRC Members Race 2017
This year we’ve been invited to attend and race in the 72nd Goodwood Road Racing Clubs race meeting in March. Guy Broad will be at the helm of our ex-works Triumph racer; PKV 693 as he battles for Fender-Broad glory!
The event is a continuation of the 71 club meetings held at Goodwood during the 1950s and ’60s for the members of the BARC. The 72nd Members’ Meeting should be unlike anything that’s gone before. With the flair and innovation that typifies Goodwood motor sport events, this should be a memorable weekend of shared passions and enthusiasm. It will feel unlike any other event, with its own distinctive atmosphere and we’re looking forward to putting PKV through its paces once more!
Le Mans Classic 2012
It’s dusk and we had just been interviewed by a young lady from Motors TV in their live night time show. I’m starting to feel like some of the professional racing drivers I am about to enter the track with.
Why interview me? Well, that’s the very essence of Classic Le Mans. I have visited Le Sarthe as a spectator many times. I worked in the pits in 2001 with Dick Barbour Racing and now it’s my turn as a true Le Mans 24hr enthusiast to live the dream. That’s what the Le Mans Classic gives an owner of a special car the chance to do.
Tulip Rally Retrospective 2008
Pascal called and said why don’t you bring your ex-works TR2 PKV693 to Holland and join sister car OVC276 in replicating part of the Triumph Works entered team from 1955. What a damn good idea I said!
Good ideas are all well and good. However fail to prepare then prepare to fail seemed appropriate in what happened next.
PKV693 is set up as a race car I told Pascal. No bother he said the rally is all on sealed roads..it would transpire that he was lying to me!!
The idea took seed in my mind. After all the rally is a big TR event and to have 2 of the works entered team from 1955 must be good.
In short I took my dad on the rally as a ‘lad and dad’ event. Hopelessly under prepared and without any navigational aids or measuring devices, we rolled up to the start in a car that was so low to the ground in barely cleared the smallest speed bump. The following 5 days were sun drenched and also the toughest navigation I have ever experienced. To be fair my dad was hopeless on the maps however I should have told him how hard it might be, especially for a novice without measuring devices on 4 different scaled maps! All summarised by a secret check where the official stared at our sun drenched red faces and at our matching red dashboard and enquired as to the whereabouts of our Halda, ‘we don’t have one’ I replied, ‘you must have a GPS system then’ he said. ‘no we’ve nothing’ I said. ‘Crazy f##ing Englishmen!’ he shouted whilst laughing and waiving us on to a glorious finish with no breakdowns and third place on the TR Team prize.
Oh yes we did have a mechanical fault. As we pulled up the finishing ramp the sharp angle pulled the exhaust off! Only breakdown of the event. As for Pascal’s maginificently prepared rally car…He snapped a half shaft on the first day!!!
Preparation is everything…isn’t it? We made some great Dutch friends too who liked our car and the fact we were slightly mad enthusiasts!