About MSR

Campillos Spain proved to be a challenging weekend. The weather was changeable and went from Wet to Dry to Ice to Dry. The only thing we didn't have was snow, although that seemed imminent a few times. Throughout the weekend, Matthew drove very well in all conditions. Apart from a 2nd heat incident he was consistently in the top 5 of the 40+ strong field. A pre-final crash saw him relegated to 34th and last for the start in the final. A huge effort was put in by Sam and the team from Paul Carr Racing to re-build a damaged chassis for the race. Matt started in 34th position and drove a storming race through though the field to finish 16th overall. A fantastic effort !

The Next race is to be held in Salbris, France. Check out Galleries and videos for the latest.

Matthew Solomon

Matthew is about to embark on his 1st year of competition in Europe. The 1st race scheduled for the 2nd week of February sees the 14 year old competing in Spain at the European Winter Cup. This race is the prelude for the 2010 seasons competition in the Euromax series where Matthew will run under the watchful eye of Paul Carr from Paul Carr racing. As a team driver Matthew will be pushing hard to emulate some of the past successes that Paul Carr has had.

Marc Hynes who has worked with Matthew for the past 12 months moves onto the role of Driver Development for the new Virgin Racing F1 Team and has passed the task of mentoring Matthew over to Paul. Matthew ran with Paul twice during the 2009 season to get a feel for the step up to the strong European challenge ahead of him. As usual fitness is the key to strong performance and Matt has spent the past couple of months readying himself for the challenge.

Achievements to date

  • 2009 1st Philippines National ROK Cup Novice Championships
  • 2009 7th in CIK FIA KF3 Asia Pacific Championship
  • 2008 2nd in Junior Max AKOC Championship
  • 2008 Competed in 3 rounds of the Philippines Shell Open Karting Championship with podium finishes in each round
  • 2008 Hong Kong Junior Champion
  • 2007 Competed in AKOC Mini Rok
  • 2007 Voted Hong Kong's "Most improved driver"
  • 2007 Hong Kong Junior Champion
  • Commenced Karting at age 11