A racing driver from Wokingham has racked up yet more championship points as he continues his 2025 racing season, with his latest podium success.
24-year-old Bobby Trundley is a driver for Team BRIT, the world’s only competitive team of all-disabled racing drivers, and competed in round 3 of the Britcar Endurance Championship last weekend. His impressive performance alongside his team mate, Asha Silva, who is also autistic, leaves them riding high in the championship.
On Saturday 31st May the drivers took on qualifying in the morning in their BMW M240i, putting them P2 in class for the first of 2 x 45 minute races.
Race 1 saw Asha taking to the track first. Unfortunately, the car picked up a puncture and Asha missed the pit window to enable her to return to the garage. Bobby then took over, pushing with everything he had to bring them home 3rd in class.
In race 2, Bobby and Asha were keen to get themselves back up the podium standings after race 1’s puncture. Bobby started out for the pair, giving absolutely everything and demonstrating his years of experience to hand over to Asha with the class lead. Asha then showed how much pace she has built up, now in her 3rd year with the team, holding on to the lead Bobby had secured and bringing them home first in class. Sadly, they received a pitstop penalty, demoting them to 2nd.
The results place them 2nd in overall championship points so far, and 1st in their class.
Bobby was diagnosed with severe autism as a child and found a love of motorsport through karting at age 10. He found it to have a profound impact on the way he manages the challenges of autism, and went on to become a 5 x national karting champion before joining Team BRIT in 2019.
Bobby said: “It was a tough weekend for the whole team, but we got through it all together, we pushed hard out on track and brought back some amazing results.
“Despite Asha picking up a puncture in race 1, we still managed to get third in class, and race 2 saw us bring home 1st in class, despite me having to manage a technical issue which our brilliant crew fixed in a pit stop. Sadly, we were just 0.005 seconds short on our pitstop which us down to P2 – heartbreaking!
“Asha drove amazingly well yet again and the whole Team BRIT crew were the best. I just wish we could’ve brought back two wins! Bring on Thruxton!”
Bobby races again at Thruxton on Saturday 5th July.
