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Soon after incorporation the first major event for Co-ordSport was to run a car team in the 1988 Lombard RAC Rally in conjuction with Japanese contacts Tusk Engineering. The cars were Grp A & N Mitsubishi Galant VR-4's and the Japanese drivers included factory driver Kenjiro Shinozuka. On what proved to be a very hard rally, the team got three cars to the finish. The team moved on to compete in the 1989 FIA Asia-Pacific series and selected World Rally Championship events.

On all events the team was made up of a mixture of UK and Japanese personnel, with Co-ordSport's Peter Collinson taking a managerial role, co-ordinating service and logistics. The events entered in 1989 included the Portugal, Acropolis, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Himalayan Rallies. Results included Group N wins in Portugal and Greece and Shinozuka finishing 3rd in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.

Meanwhile. back in the UK the team entered another Japanese driver, Hideaki Miyoshi, in selected UK National Rallies. The Japanese journalist drove a Group N Galant VR-4, prepared and maintained by Co-ordSport producing results of 9th, 5th, 3rd and 2nd overall, with 3 Group N wins.

For 1990 the Company were once again involved with Tusk Engineering and Kenjiro Shinozuka, running as the Mitsubishi Oil Citizen Team. The premier event in the programme was the Marlboro Safari Rally in Kenya, where Shinozuka finished 5th overall driving a car built in the Co-ordSport workshops. An excellent result for a first attempt at the Safari Rally and on an occasion when the event was so tough that only 10 cars reached the finish in Nairobi.

In 1991 Co-ordSport again ran Hideaki Miyoshi this time in a Group A Galant VR-4, contesting the UK's National Rally Championship, finishing 2nd overall and nominated best team with the most reliable car. Highlights were the outright wins on the Vauxhall Sport Rally and the Severn Valley Stages, both events in Wales (the first rally wins ever in the UK by a Japanese driver.) Other notable results to date are Kenjiro Shinozuka's 1st overall on the Rally Cote d'lvoire in both 1991 and 1992, these being the first and second World Rally Championship wins by a Japanese driver. The 1991 car was prepared at Co-ordSport and their mechanics made up a large part of the Japanese-Anglo team in both years.

Based upon these successes the business has grown and is experienced to deal with the build, development and running of most competition cars.  The company also deals with the import/export of competition parts world-wide.  Exports include Argentina, Austria, Australia, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Middle East, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA and West Indies.

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