About ReadyForTheTrack

Welcome to ReadyForTheTrack

*Update February 2009* Finally, we are able to say that we have migrated over to our new site, and that the new guides that we have been writing are now going to be able to be published pretty swiftly.

About Me and ReadyForTheTrack

I would like to write a few words to tell you about myself, what I do and why I have been involved in the RenaultSport scene for nearly ten years now.

My name is Andrew Hughes, I am a 28 year old guy from Staffordshire in the UK, and I own and run a company called YozzaSport – A RenaultSport specialist for the road, track and race markets. I, if you hadn’t guessed am the “y0z2a” part of YozzaSport.

My original background is in Internet and Technology – I have worked in the online marketing sector since about 1996/1997, where I cut my teeth in developing highly competitive and profitable Internet businesses, devising online marketing strategies and implementing technology in traditional businesses to offer new, and better value products and services to the general public.

In 2004 I decided that I was fed up of the major players in the Renault market ripping customers off, offering substandard parts at massively inflated prices and not really catering for the track and race customers in the field. I started YozzaSport out of my own money and worked in it solidly since. The traditional race preparation and race teams were on the whole not interested in the road and trackday market – as they saw the users as being stress that they just didn’t need – In hindsight I can see why many of them didn’t really get involved with the road market.

Our goodwill and patience also began to run out in the Summer of 2008, when we found all of our time wasted on a daily basis by people who would ring up spending hours of our time for our advice, only to spend money with the cheapest suppliers or on cheap components from ebay.These same people were the type of customers who would accuse us of not supplying things such as c-spanners with coilovers, claiming that we were removing the parts from boxes to profiteer at their expense, then using the internet communities in an attempt to drag our name through the dirt.

This was against all the fundamentals that I founded YozzaSport with – “offering the best products at the best prices with the best advice” and I decided that enough was enough, and that I was no longer prepared to accept gobby pr*cks and keyboard warriors ruining our reputation, and decided to no longer offer the same levels of support that we had done historically, and to concentrate on our core audience – devoted, interested and serious trackday and racers – those who are prepared to send an email asking for information when they realise that the phone is off for a reason, and leave the Car Park Warrior brigade to fight it out for the idiots who were wasting our time.

I am now writing this blog of information to try and stem the flow of phone calls that I get on a day to day basis that want the advice that I have in my head – yet isn’t down on paper anywhere.

Where Did YozzaSport Start?

If we are being honest – it started as an online business selling mail-order parts: Brake Discs, Brake Pads, Braided Brake Hoses and our own YozzaSport Exhaust systems. It went from there in a flash. YozzaSport identified the need for off the shelf components and packages for customers of varying budgets to be able to see in an instant what they needed and how much they needed to actually achieve what they needed to get to. We developed a series of engine packages, only for our packages to be ripped off and sold by the company with whom we chose to partner. We had to then start again and cover all of the ground that we had previously covered with a local company of race engineers, who we have worked with since.

What Parts Do YozzaSport Sell?

Basically – we can source, make or design anything – it simply depends on your budget…

What Services do YozzaSport Offer?

YozzaSport tends to focus on track and race cars and components now-a-days, due to the contraction of the market since the Summer of 2008 when people began to not spend so much on general components for their cars.

My Own Renault/RenaultSport Cars:

Well what have I/we had in all this time…

1992 1.4 8v Clio RT
1992 1.8 16v Clio Phase 1
1993 1.8 16v (with 2.0 16v engine) Clio Cup Race Car
1994 2.0 16v Williams  One
1996 1.8 16v Clio Phase 2
1998 1.4 8v Clio RT
2002 2.0 16v Clio 172 Cup
2003 3.0 24v Clio V6 255

Always a Hooligan,

/y0z