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On the first May bank holiday, Monday 6th May, the Excite team will be supporting the Sporting Bears Charity Day at Bovington Tank Museum. Lots of fun for all the family and the opportunity to get you "Dream Ride". "We are delighted to support this very worthy cause"...

Sunday 21st April saw the team give the Desert Warrior 3 it's UK race debut. Team principal, John Hardy and The Girl on a Bike, Vanessa Ruck both experienced the "hot" seat piloting the car around a testing and difficult course. The backroom crew had to be at their...

It is with great excitement, excuse the pun, that the Excite Team are delighted to welcome Vanessa Ruck, aka The Girl on a Bike, to the team for the All Wheel drive Club Safari at Bovington on Sunday 21st April. Vanessa will be testing out the the team's Desert...

While 2023 saw the team switch to a new car, an upgrade to the Desert Warrior 3, 2024 will see some further changes to the team's direction. Circumstances in and around the British Off-Road scene currently mean that the team will revert to a male crew in 2024. But it...

The Excite Team were once again delighted to be at the iconic Rally Day festival at Castle Coombe circuit. The event at the start of July was the second year running the team had the call to take part. Not only did the team make an appearance at the event but to the...

In January of 2023, the Excite Team were delighted to take delivery of a new vehicle for the team. A British built Desert Warrior 3. A vehicle designed and built specifically for the type of off-road, Baja racing the team are involved in. "The Mitsubishi Pajero has...

The weekend of 8th and 9th October saw the team head to South Wales for the All-Wheel Drive Club event at Walters Arena. And what a weekend and what an interesting week leading up to the event. The outcome of the weekend was a fantastic first in class and 25th...

Last weekend the team made their way north to Staffordshire for the Staffs & Shrops LRC Stone Enduro event. It was run over two days (Saturday and Sunday) and featured two night stages on the Saturday evening. With Jasmine at the wheel, she was joined by a stand...

It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce a major addition to the Excite Team. We are pleased to say that Jasmine Philpott will be joining us in a driving capacity. We have been talking to Jasmine for some time as we sought to expand the team so it is...

A terrific performance by team Principal John Hardy, in the driving seat, and Co-Driver Paul Brimblecombe saw Excite Rally Raid finish 3rd in class and 24th overall at the Welsh Borders Hill Rally this weekend. Only some mechanical issues on Sunday deprived the pair...