He is responsible for masterminding the careers of such names as Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen, Jonathan Palmer, Rubens Barrichello, Maurício Gugelmin and Eddie Irvine with his involvement in F3 and a racing academy in the 80s and 90s.

WSR Ford finished seventh in the Team's Championship, just ahead of the factory Peugeots of Tim Harvey and Patrick Watts.

Eventually, Mansell finished fourth having allowed Derek Warwick through at the final corner, but was subsequently demoted to fifth, having passed under waved yellows.

In the still unfancied Mondeo, Hoy managed to finish in the top 10 of the Championship with 69 points, which included a brilliant race win at round 4, which was to be his last before his semi-retirement at the end of the season, and shock death in 2002.

This was Kox's second full season in the championship, having made his debut in select races for BMW in 1996, and struggling the previous year.

The season was a bit of a lost cause for WSR, with Ford romping away with superstars Alain Menu, Rickard Rydell and Anthony Reid, with Vauxhall the only (if distant) challenger.

West Surrey Racing ended the Supertouring era second in the Manufacturers' Championship, ahead of Vauxhall with 411 points.

The 2002 season saw the team continue with Reid and Hughes in addition to running Colin Turkington and Gareth Howell in a 'satellite' independent MG squad backed by the pop group Atomic Kitten.

In 2006 WSR ran two MG ZSes in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) having secured title sponsorship from the RAC.

[2] A possible replacement for Onslow-Cole was Duncan Huisman who raced for WSR alongside Turkington in the 2007 World Touring Car Championship event in Macau as part of Team Aviva.

Instead, they re-signed Rob Collard from Motorbase Performance and Andy Neate, a director of team sponsors Ceravision, to replace Jelley.

However, Turkington signed a deal to compete in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) from Portimão onwards driving a 320si with sponsorship from eBay Motors.

Collard was joined by former Mini Challenge racer Nick Foster for the 2011 season, but neither driver won a race.

Collard won the opening race at Brands Hatch, followed by two more wins at Knockhill later in the year, taking him to fifth place in the final drivers' standings.

Turkington won the championship with eight wins in thirty races, Collard ended sixth and Foster sixteenth.

Turkington was second in the Drivers' Championship and Collard - who had to miss the final five races following a high-speed accident at Silverstone not of his own making - finished fifth.

For 2019 the team switched to fielding 3 BMW 330i M sports[8] while retaining Turkington and Jordan and adding Tom Oliphant[9] to replace Collard.

Oliphant would finish 11th in the standings at the end of the year achieving a career high of 3rd in race 1 at Donington Park.

WSR were selected by A1 Team New Zealand to run their car for the inaugural 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix season, taking the "Black Beauty" machine to 4th overall.