The Team Principal - Stephen Vokins, Petrolhead !
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Stephen Vokins is a 49 year-old lifelong petrolhead. Since leaving University he has worked at The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu for more than 25 years, alongside writing four books on motoring, presenting on Men & Motors car TV programmes, and is a regular contributor to motoring magazines and BBC Radio 4 factual programmes.
He recently underwent major heart surgery, and it was during his time in hospital, the idea he'd nurtured for some time to take the world land speed record for lawn mowers became a new goal for him. "I decided", says the eccentric Stephen, "that having successfully got through this life-saving surgery, I should do something spectacular with the new lease of life I've been given. Climbing Everest is too much like hard work, but taking Bob Cleveland's record for Britain is mad, bad, and slightly dangerous - in other words, perfect!"
He has assembled behind him an impressive team, and enjoys the support of many major companies, alongside having access to some of the finest minds in lawnmower manufacture and design today.
He is pictured here, standing by Sir Malcolm Campbell's 1925 Bluebird, which won the land speed record on Pendine Sands in 1925, when it reached the speed of 150mph. The car is on display at Beaulieu, along with four other land speed record cars.
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