WHO'S WHO

    Alan Greenwood - Team Principle

During the working day Alan is a successful businessman in the pharmaceutical industry.  Out of hours he is an ebullient petrolhead passionate about fast cars and motorsport.  Mach 2 Racing was formed in 1992 by freight forward wizard Mick Scholefield to contest the TVR Tuscan Challenge, and Alan combined with Mick in 1997 specifically for his Ford RS200 to win at the Pikes Peak hillclimb.  This year will be the third attempt and the one time when the team can realistically beat the 10 minute barrier that nobody in the world has ever achieved.

    Mark Rennison - Race Driver

Mark started driving at the age of 8 on his father’s farm in Darlington.  With the Croft circuit on his doorstep he was always destined to be a racing driver.  Mark’s driving style is best described as analytical and that technical approach rewarded him with the 1987 British Rallycross Championship title driving a Ford RS200.  He won every one of the seven rounds of that championship - an acheivement that has never been matched.  He went on to win the chamionship title again the following year in the same car.  Although this will be his first visit to Pikes Peak he is confident that his vast experience on mixed surfaces will be an invaluable asset.

Geoff Page - Engine Builder

Geoff has been building successful race engines for over 25 years - from Formula One right down to Formula Ford.  In the mid eighties he worked for Terry Hoyle and was involved in the build of all of the RS200 race and rally engines for the Ford Motorsport Department then based at Boreham in Essex.   Thereafter he continued developing  the engine and giving more reliable power to the rally and rallycross RS200 brigade.  Today he is considered to be the leading specialist on this range of engines.

Peter Bennett - Engineer

Peter had worked his way around many different areas of Ford as a design engineer when in 1986 he was asked to join the small team at Ford Racing to determine the specification of the  Sierra Cosworth RS500.  The car went on to dominate the race circuits of Europe and Peter’s skills were retained to breathe his magic on other motorsport projects such as the Sierra 4x4, Escort RS Cosworth, Puma Racing and Fiesta Super 1600.  When the Ford Racing location at Boreham closed, in June 2004, Peter left to set up the family business, MDV Specialist Engineering, with his two sons Adam and Sam.  They immediately won a contract to design, develop and manufacture a fleet of unique buggies  for the rally school at the Bahrain Circuit.  Next came a 550 bhp 4x4 Rallycross Fiesta that they designed from scratch and went on to win the 05 British Rallycross Championship in its maiden season. 

Adam Bennett - Chief Mechanic     

After studying engineering Adam joined MSX and spent 6 years building prototype vehicles for Ford, Jaguar and Volvo.  He left in 2004 to set-up MDV at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex.  Adam is a good example of a new breed of hands-on race engineers who have a total grasp and understanding of modern technology, yet he is just as happy rattling spanners under a car in a muddy paddock as he is working in the design office with the latest CAD software. 

Barry Reynolds - Media Communications

At the end of a Ford apprenticeship in 1969  Barry’s first job was in the Ford Competitions Department at Boreham, Essex.  It was the start of the era when Ford Escorts slid sideways to victory throughout Europe and Barry caught the motorsport bug.  A thirty five year career in Ford Public Relations was continually interspersed with motorsport PR management roles, which included the many and varied disciplines in which Ford were involved from grass roots Formula Ford and Rallycross up to World Rally and F1.  Barry went into semi-retirement in 2005 but that motorsport bug still plagued him, and with all that Ford RS clothing still in the wardrobe, it was a natural choice to support the Mach 2 Racing’s all British team attempt to beat the world with a Ford RS200 at the 2009 Pikes Peak hillclimb.

Last modified: July 21, 2009