The People behind Plays Kool Motorsport

Plays Kool Motorsport was formed in 2000 by kit car enthusiast Paul Aspden & rally co-driver Andrew Terry. Prior to forming the company, Andrew & his brother Adrian had built & prepared a Vauxhall Nova to group B regs for competing in local rallies.

Paul had built several kits over ten years & had been competing in Hillclimbs & Sprints in Westfield’s & Sylva’s since 1994. During 2008 Paul wanted to seek other challenges and in September 2008 sold Plays Kool to Nick Algar and his son Luke Algar. Before purchasing, Playskool Motorsport Nick Algar used to run a successful Plastics vacuum forming Business making plastics parts for big names such as Nissan, Bentley and Black and Decker, but also parts for kit cars. In June 2008, Nick sold his business and decided to set his sights on a new challenge.

In 2000 Nick and Luke had built a Westfield Megabusa kitcar building the car together, after a few trackday’s and runs out Nick came to meet Paul Aspen and it was Paul who introduced Nick to the Westfield Speed series where Nick started sprinting. In his first year of competing (2003) Nick won Class F of the Championship. The next year Nick had defiantly got the bug as he competed in Class F again winning the Class, but adding a Supercharger to the car. The following year Nick decided to move into Class H the slick shod class and came a very close second, also coming second in the British Sprint Championship, but winning the Midland class and Best Race car class.

In 2006 Nick moved into single seaters competing in a DJ Firehawk. In 2007 Nick won the 1600 category of the British Sprint championship and came fourth overall. 2008 has seen Nick win the 1600 category of the British Sprint again, finishing the year third overall in the championship. For 2009 Nick has bought a Gould GR55 3.5 ltr Cosworth, unlimited car and will again be competing in the British Sprint Championship.

Well the 2009 season is now over and Nick has Won the British Sprint Championship!! Not only did Nick win the Championship but on the final round at Mallory Park Circuit in Leicestershire he broke the outright lap record previously held by Johan Rajamaki, in an Footworks Arrows F1 car, back in 1997.

Luke Algar had caught the bug from a young age and went to university studying Motorsports before taking an Honours degree in Motorsport management.  During 2008 Luke worked as a race mechanic for Formula Palmer Audi, running the winning car in the Autumn Trophy series 2008. He has now moved to work full time for Playskool. As well as being a dab hand with a Kart he is starting to enjoy trackday’s with the Westfield.