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Tonbridge motorsport team Gigglepin Racing aims to boost off-road endurance profile
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Kent-based off-road endurance racing team Gigglepin Racing, led by driver Jim Marsden, is competing in Portugal for its third European title in the Ultra4 Europe series. Despite attracting millions of global fans and featuring extreme terrain like deserts and rainforests, driver Jim Marsden describes the discipline as motorsport's 'dirty secret' in the UK, where Formula 1 dominates coverage. The team also manufactures commercial winches in Hildenborough near Tonbridge and maintains a rigorous rebuilding schedule between races.
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- Kent-based Gigglepin Racing is competing in Portugal to secure its third European title in the Ultra4 Europe all-terrain series.
- Driver Jim Marsden describes off-road endurance racing as motorsport's 'dirty secret' in the UK due to a lack of local publicity compared to Formula 1.
- The team races specially made 4x4 vehicles across extreme environments including deserts, rainforests, rivers, and boulders.
- Gigglepin is named after the commercial winches manufactured by the team in Hildenborough near Tonbridge.
- After every race, mechanics spend weeks completely stripping down and rebuilding the vehicles to prepare them for the next competition.