00:00We're here with Mission Motorsport. We've got the hand-controlled BRZ behind me now
00:03and we are giving an opportunity for those guys with charity that are lower
00:07limb disabled and the opportunity to drive around the Nürburgring which is a
00:11real red-letter day and on everybody's bucket list of things to do.
00:15I'm Steve Binns, I'm an ex-paratrooper, served in Northern Ireland and the
00:19Falklands and that's some time ago and I had a slight accident 20 days after
00:26returning from the Falklands and broke my back on a motorbike.
00:30At Mission Motorsport we have a common aim and that is just to put people in
00:35in seats and enjoy it regardless of the challenges that it may have in their
00:40lives. At Mission Motorsport we keep it friendly, we keep it aware of everybody's
00:45different and their needs. Two years ago it was a learning curve read disability
00:51and because I at that time we didn't have an adapted car so everybody else got to
00:59go out and drive the car around the ring but I just had to, make do is a wrong word
01:05but I just had to embrace the passenger rides. We went away with a lot of effort
01:11and we got a group together so there's three paraplegics myself included. The
01:17challenge was to take a car that was a cut-end right off and put it back to road
01:26legal which was sponsored by eBay which was fantastic. We did that on the
01:32condition that we could have the car back and change it into a race car and we
01:37did and the Subaru have got behind behind the project they think it's great we
01:44think they're great yeah. So here we are now back at the Nürburgring two years
01:49later with the car that's fully adapted to be driven and this time I'll be taking
01:55the car around the track. Unfortunately in the lead-up the car was ready to go
02:00fantastic but there was a little small incident let's say which happens to us
02:06all I believe so everybody tells me over and over again. I managed to have a slight
02:13contact with the barriers at the top of Shelsley Walsh hill climb. What makes it
02:22worse is it's one thing doing it to your own car but when you do it to the
02:26charity's car it makes it doubly worse but especially as the car had a full
02:33program of events to go to including this one everybody was called to arms
02:40favors were called in Subaru jumped on board other supporters came in and
02:47mainly with a lot of work from Aston who is our our workshop manager and it's
02:54risen a second time from the ashes it's here hopefully to do some really tentative
03:01laps to start off with around the ring. It's actually been a privilege to work
03:05with the guys to get the car up and mobile again it's not really about the
03:09car or the brand of make of the vehicle it's about what the vehicle does and I
03:13say it gives the guys the opportunity to get out on track. There was there was a
03:17long list of requests not just from Rider Street we actually managed to get a
03:21couple of bits over from Japan as well. I had the absolute privilege of going out in
03:24the car with Jim it's my first time at the Nürburgring he can pedal the car
03:28really quickly but it's amazing how much grip the car has just naturally through
03:33the corners yeah it's a real pleasure. This is a journey that we've been on with
03:36Mission for about 18 months we supported them last year for their race of
03:39remembrance in November now we are at Destination Nürburgring we'll be back at
03:43race of remembrance again this coming November so yeah this is one of a long
03:47list of things to do. Mission Motorsport is the forces motorsport charity we run
03:51just one of the avenues of recovery sport that's there to support those who've
03:55served the nation and their and their families so we run a lovely low-level
04:00national sporting program that's helping people get off the sofa and get engaged
04:04and start to live again. Sport is amazing it's restorative and healing and you see
04:10it from the Paralympic Games to some of the things that allow people to to go and
04:17compete and have a purpose but motorsport there is no disabled category you adapt the
04:23vehicle instead of the sport and they race on the level playing field against
04:26able-bodied and that's incredibly powerful but you know cars and motorbikes
04:32and things that move you literally as well as figuratively you know some of the
04:37things that make life truly joyous and engaging and it's also about personal
04:41freedoms as well so if somebody's had a life-altering injury how can they regain
04:46that personal freedom the independence that they used to have and often it's
04:50through engineering that we're able to do those things the real joy of motorsport
04:55is though it's not about the drivers it's about the team and making it happen
04:59as a group where you're working together to achieve a higher goal and a lot of our
05:03stuff is gauged in that way to be able to pick people up and put them alongside
05:06people that they'll find inspiring and it will engage them and help them beyond
05:11the moment and that's really what we're trying to do to be here at the ring with
05:18the Subaru is and being able to take it round is so life-affirming for me it is
05:28the top if if I don't wake up tomorrow it won't matter I'll have I'll have finished
05:33ha I've done tick tick the box that's it
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