Oli went to an indoor kart track for his 16th birthday and hasn’t stopped racing since. He won the European Pro-Kart Championship in 1997 and the British Pro-Kart title in 1998. He went to Bristol University to study Economics and Politics and then worked as an IT Account Manager in London, yet still found time to finish 2nd in a Monoposto Cup race at Brands Hatch in 1999 and won 3 out of the 4 rounds of the Europa Cup (Class B) races he contested. Oli made “a life-changing decision” in 2000 and left his City job and taught himself web design to give himself more time to go racing. A few one-off drives, including finishing 6th (out of 20) in a Lotus race at Brands Hatch and a FIA Sportscar Championship race at Donington, followed in 2001 before his break came in 2002 with a full season of racing in the Clio Cup. Xcel Motorsport signed him for the 2003 Clio Cup series, where he raced to 7 podiums and finished 4th in the series. Oli entered the Racing Rivals Scholarship Drive Competition on ITV2, and after a series of eliminating theoretical and practical tests, the judges, made up of an independent panel of motorsport experts, selected Oli as the winner – for which he receives a fully-funded drive in the 2004 SEAT Cupra Championship. Oli is sponsored by talkSPORT, Omnetica and www.collectiques.co.uk.