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With confidence in their expertise to conceptualise, design, build, test and support a championship winner the Gould father and son team set up in 1994 to produce the Gould Ralt GR37. Based on a Ralt Formula 3 carbon composite monque the pair redesigned most of the car, suspenion, engine gearbox installation, aerodynamics etc. In many ways they bucked the trend, proving that hillclimbing is not unlike circuit racing and that a stiff chassis works just as well. Success was not instantaneous, yet within two years the GR37 was the car to have on British hills.

After selling six GR37’s and winning with championship 3 times with their first ever car Gould went on to conceptualise the radical GR51 Cosworth V6. Using a lightweight but extremely powerful and driveable V6, mated to a x-Formula 1 gearbox, and using their own Ralt derived monoque with raised nose and new front wing. Although without the torque of the big 4.0l V8’s, the braking and corning potential of such a small compact and lightweight car with excellent aerodynamics brought a package that is yet to be beaten – now holder of 2 championship titles.

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