When the late tin-top specialist Richard Lloyd was racing Volkswagen’s new hot hatch in the British Touring Car Championship in the late 1970s, the German manufacturer used to place adverts in Autosport proclaiming: ‘If you want to succeed in motor racing, take up Golf’.
But in the case of 2024 BTCC Jack Sears Trophy leader Mikey Doble, it’s a case of giving golf up. The Surrey up-and-comer left school at 16, and gave up a promising karting career, in order to go to golf college to try to make it as a pro.
