At the beginning of 2007, he teamed-up with former WRC co-driver Gemma Price and the pair headed to Latvia, where drivers can compete in genuine rallies from the age of just 14 years.

He was chasing the first Fiesta spot during the event and looked to be taking the position before a small error cost him time and demoted him to third.

[4] He was then invited to take part in the Richard Burns Memorial Rally by Neil Cole, presenter of the WRC on digital TV channel Dave.

The pair finished 14th overall and sixth in class, another outstanding result considering they faced kit cars and ex-works Vauxhall Astras in their Group N Fiesta.

He also secured his first outright rally win, at the wheel of his Subaru Impreza N10 on the Coracle Stages in July and drove the MML Sports Group N Mitsubishi Lancer N4 on Rally Latvia but was forced to stop and change a puncture when lying second in Group N.[5] However, the most exciting news was when he secured the ex-Alister McRae Proton Satria Neo S2000 car for the season and would run as a semi-official car alongside the works team on selected events.

His first outing was on the Plains Rally in Wales where he finished second in N4 but in June, he took third overall on his tarmac debut, behind Patrik Snijers and Chris Atkinson.

Tom began the year targeting the British Rally Championship with the JRM team running him in a Mitsubishi Lancer EvolutionX Group N car.

He was second on the season opener, the Sunseeker Rally but an accident on the Bulldog followed by car failure on the Jim Clark meant that realistically, he was out of the running.

He then won the Bulldog Rally, the second round, outright using a rented Citroen after his car was damaged on a test following component failure.