Profile : Adam Gould
- Age:
- 23
- DOB:
- 06/05/1987
- Location:
- Bristol
2009:
- Pirelli works driver in British Rally Championship
- Selected for MSA British Rally Elite scheme
2008:
- Presented with Pirelli Star Driver prize of fully funded drive in 2009 BRC
- Working for M-Sport as FST ‘apprentice’
- Selected for the MSA British Rally Elite
- 3 British Rally Championship class wins
- R2 winner and star driver nominee, Jim Clark Rally (BRC)
2007:
- Winner of FST International Shootout – awarded residential contract with M-Sport for 2008
- Contested the FST UK championship
- Selected for MSA British Rally Academy
2006:
- Contested FST UK championship
- Won Most Improved Driver title
Adam is fast becoming one of Britain’s young rally talents. After more than six years of competing successfully in various formulae, beginning with Autograss Racing before moving on to Junior Rallycross, Adam has followed a natural progression into stage rallying where he ultimately aims to become professional.
After finishing second in the British Junior Rallycross Championship in 2003, Gould’s first rally was the Grizedale stages in 2004, where he won his class first time out. 2006 saw the announcement of the new one-make ‘Fiesta SportingTrophy’ series, and Adam decided this was the only way forward, offering the greatest opportunities for progression in the sport, along with the chance to prove himself against much of the top talent in the UK.
2007 again saw Adam take to the stages in a Ford Fiesta ST and, after securing the wildcard entry into the end of year FST International Shootout, he then went on to beat 24 of the best FST competitors from around the world to take the victory. Selection for the MSA’s British Rally Academy scheme was vital in providing Gould with the skills necessary to excel in this event. The Shootout prize offered a place at M-Sport, the company responsible for running Ford’s World Rally Championship programme. Here Adam works with the team day to day and on World Rally Championship events, doing anything from building the World Rally Cars to driving them at shakedown!
Being selected for the MSA British Rally Elite scheme for 2008 helped enhance Adam’s reputation further, and led to a late deal forged with Autosport Technology to drive one of the cars that the 2007 Pirelli Star Drivers were assessed in. The little R2 Renault Clio appeared on the Pirelli Rally, but it was on the Jim Clark International Rally on the closed public roads around Duns that Adam excelled.
His stage times alone were enough for a top ten position within the BRC finishers, but his cool approach after a minor off, coupled with a dominant class win, won him the Pirelli Star Driver nomination.
The award pitted him against seven other finalists at the end of the season, taking the Pirelli Star Driver title and with it a Pirelli funded drive in a Subaru Impreza N14 run by TEG Sport.
2009 therefore sees Adam as the Pirelli works driver in the British Rally Championship, as well as being re-selected for the MSA British Rally Elite scheme once again.
