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- ↑ James Bolton, Motorsport News, p. 24, 24 April 2013.
- ↑ BTRDA Championship Winners (Sporting Trials, btrda.com, retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ↑ BTRDA Championship Winners (Rallycross], btrda.com, retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ↑ BTRDA History, btrda.com, retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ↑ Ian Ward (ed), The World of Automobiles: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Motor Car, vol. 20, p. 2363, Orbis, 1974 OCLC 1004805042
