Team Principal
Peter Smith enjoyed a successful City career until serious kidney cancer rendered him a dialysis patient in 2000. Upon sufficient recovery Peter joined Scott Wilson at IMS Consulting as a director. At that time he also decided to take up an abondoned racing hobby - he last drove Formula Ford in 1972 - and so became the only haemo-dialysis racing driver in the UK.
With sponsorship from Scott, IMS Motorsport was born. Having great fun but limited success in Ginetta racing Peter moved to 750 MC where in 2006 he finished 4th overall and 3rd in class in Roadsports. After a kidney transplant in 2007, and realising the new-found health opportunity presented to him, Peter scaled down his own racing, although he will race in some Ginetta Club and SR races in 2008. When IMS decided to enter the British GT Championships, Peter was an obvious choice to manage the expanded IMS Motorsport team and in his role as Team Principal he facilitates the best efforts of drivers, the race support crew and others in IMS Motorsport's push for GT4 honours.
Both the IMS British GT series Ginetta G50 and Peter's G20 display support for British Kidney Patient Association in recognition of their work and Peter's condition. Throughout his recent racing career, since 2003, Peter has raised more than £22,000 for kidney charities, mainly BKPA.