John Stant

Pickup Truck driver
Name = John Stant
Nationality = flagicon|ENG


Caption = John Stant
Nickname = Stanty
Car number = 18
Team = Cheerios Racing
Engine = Vauxhall C20XE
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
First year = 2006
Best position =
Last Season = 24th
Crew Chief = Peter Murray
Spotter = Keith Newey
Technical = Mike Quinn

John Stant is a racing driver who has raced the #18 pickup since 2006 in the UK Pickup Truck Racing series.

Stant formed the team Maximum attack motorsport over nine years ago. He began in motorsport at age 16, riding Speedway.John competed successfully in many disciplines, winning races, events and Championships outright in Race, Rally, Auto tests and Sprints.

He is a regular writer in local, regional and national publications, reporting on motorsport events and assists in event organisation locally.

He has worked alongside Colin McRae in the late eighties at Ford Motorsport.

ponsors

John is sponsored by Nestle Cheerios

Racing Team

* Peter Murray - Crew chief

Pete has been a key member of the team since it was formed over nine years ago by a group of enthusiastic race fans from Cereal Partners UK. Pete was team co-driver in the Cheerios Puma Rally car.

* Mike Quinn - Technical

Mike's expertise lies in the Rallying world and he has prepared many rally winning cars, and can be regularly spotted under the bonnet of WRC machinery on British Rally Championship events.Mike is an experienced rally co-driver and has regular outings alongside some top North West based drivers, as well as Keith in their Mini.

* Keith Newey - Spotter

Keith’s role on race days is to guide the Cheerios 18 machine throughout the race, being in constant radio contact with the Driver. He is the driver’s eyes and ears. Keith is a regular competitor in his Mini Rally Car and record breaking Tiger twin engined sports car. He has also competed for several seasons in the Ford XR Series.

Career History

*2007 Pickup Truck Racing Championship
*2006 Pickup Truck Racing Championship
*2004 Legends, limited programme. Won Rookie Trophy at first round
*2003 Legends Winter weekend
*2003 Rallying - works Ford Puma kit car
*2002 Ford XR Challenge (XR2)
*2001 Eurocar V6, limited programme
*1999 Rover 220 Tomcat racing
*1998 Ford XR Challenge (XR3i), championship runner up
*1997 Ford XR Challenge, limited programme due to illness
*1996 Rallying, Autotesting, Sprints

External links

* [http://www.cheerios-racing.com/default.asp Cheerios Racing Official Website]