User:Phil Overall

Phil Overall (Born 20 March 1957 in Chester) Race Car Engineer.

Phil has worked mainly in Touring Cars championships throughtout the world.

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Finishing his apprenticeship in 1976 Phil looked to Motorsport for a career. He went to Broadspeed in Southam who were fielding two Jaguar XJ12'C's in the ETC and two Triumph Dolomite Sprints in the British Championship. Phil found his way onto the race team looking after the 'T Car' test car. Following his first season he travelled to a new team with the same Dolomite's which was Gerry Marshall Racing, ran by Roger Dowson. GMR had many sucsess in 1980 with Gerry and Rex Greenslade, journalist for Motor magazine. In 1980 Tom Walkinshaw approached Phil to work at TWR in Kidlington, this was perceived to be the best funded team since Broadspeed's demise. Phil took the opportunity and enjoyed 3 successful years engineering Mazda RX7's in British and Belgian championships, winning the last Gp2 race with an RX7, Phil was also involved with rebuilding the BMW 3.0oCSL "batmobile" for BMW's advertising campaign as well as the BMW530i and Ford Capri 3.0s in selected events for Tom. Other projects undertaken were the Range Rover Paris-Dakar builds as well as the RX7 Rally Car project

Phil was also involved with the works mazda le Man team again with the RX7 and prototype cars. At the end of his time at TWR Phil had just completed the XJRS ETC car ready for a severe test programme

During his time at TWR Phil sustained a serious injury to his shoulder and was advised to give up manual work while undergoing treatment. After a couple of years break Phil was asked back into Touring cars on a consultancy basis and worked with the following teams.

Roger Dowson Engineering Ford Sierra RS 500,

Andy Rouse Engineering, Rover Vitesse-Ford Sierra RS 500, Toyota Carina

Mardi Gras Motorsport, Renault Spiders,for Jason Plato & Andy Prialux, Honda Accord, Vauxhall Vectra (Super Touring)

GR Motorsport, Ford Focus

West Surrey Racing, MG Rover Atomic Kitten, MG Rover Team RAC (BTC)

Jackson Motorsport, Seat CupraR, BMW320i (S2000)

Oasis Motorsport (Portugal) Seat Cupra Spanish and European Championships

West Surrey Racing, BMW320i (S2000)

Arena Motorsport, Ford Focus "Global"(S2000/NGTC)

Phil also is the owner/director of Control Automation Solutions Ltd which specalise in Bespoke Automatation and conveying equipment.