After working for a recruitment company, he didn't start in motor sport until the age of thirty-nine.

He spent two years in 1997 and 1998, racing in the Scottish Road saloon car champion with a class A Ford Sierra RS500.

This was the last year of the Super Touring era and there was a very small field of drivers, with no more than eleven class A cars starting at one time.

Blair only raced in selected rounds, sharing the car with David Leslie.

In 2001 he drove in the production class BTCC with GA Janspeed Racing in an Alfa Romeo 156 with teammate Gavin Pyper, finishing in eighteenth place.