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I own the Performance Coaching Consultancy, Sun1400, which helps motor sports athletes and their teams to perform better.

I aim the main deliverer of motor sport psychology for Sun1400.

With Sun1400, I help UK motor sports athletes and their teams to perform better by delivering sport psychology.

Sun1400 was founded by me, Mike Garth. I was born in 1970 but started riding dirt bikes in 1973 and racing them in 1975. On leaving university in 1992, having also graduated in first place from the Jim Russell Racing Drivers' School in Formula Vauxhall Junior, I raced cars full-time until 1994, before working as a racing car engineer for ten years. Eight years of Indycar / Champ Car engineering brought seven World Series titles. In addition I've worked for two years in F1. I know racing and I know racers.  Managing a successful Research and Development Department and engineering with Test and Race Teams taught me the importance of performance coaching and sport psychology in motor sport. I've been involved with teams that work well and I've been involved with teams that work not so well. I've worked with world class drivers who have an excellent mental approach and I've worked with those whose psychology was clearly slowing them down. I've worked with world class leadership and I've had to work with average leadership. All this experience, success and challenge brought me to a career cross-road. I wanted to have my own motor sport business but what solution could I provide that would solve a problem in a way that no one else was? Linking my engineering training, motor sports experience and intuitive skills in knowing the performance mindset took me to formal study and practice in sport and exercise psychology. I had as much technical training and competence as most others, but felt that faster lap-times were less effected by technical prowess and more so by psychology. Now fully Accredited with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (www.bases.org.uk ) as a sport and exercise psychologist, I help motor sport athletes and their teams get one over the opposition by maximising their mental approach, namely their mood, behaviour and thoughts.

1989-1992   BSc (Hons) University of Durham
1992-1994   Racing Driver
1994-2001   Racing Car Engineer - Reynard Motorsport
                                     Customer teams:   Tasman Motorsport
                                                                        Walker Racing
                                                                        McDonald's Championship Racing
                                                                        Player's-Forsythe Racing
2001-2003   Racing Car Engineer - Panasonic Toyota F1
2004-2005   MSc Sheffield Hallam University - Sport and Exercise Science (Psychology)
2005-            Founder and Owner Sun1400

Motor Sports Athletes and their Teams in the UK
   Motor Racing

        F1

       GP2

       A1GP

       F3

       FRenault

       ALMS

       FPalmer Audi

       FormulaBMW

   Karting

   Moto-cross

   Road Racing

       MotoGP

       SuperBike

       SuperStock

       SuperSport 

       125GP

   Enduro

   Trials

"I have known Mike Garth professionally for over 14 years, working closely with him from an R&D engineer through to the foundation of Sun1400. Mike has had an extremely useful input in supporting our track engineering program. His scientific and professional approach allowed him to tailor a program that suited our needs and delivered results. At every race I am drawing benefits from our collaboration."

Guillaume Rocquelin
Race Engineer - Red Bull F1

"I was very sceptical about using sport psychology for my kart drivers but some of them just didn't have the right mental approach to get the job done. Mike identified the weaknesses to work on and put a focussed plan together to move forward. With one driver, the change is so big it's hard to remember how difficult it used to be!"

Harry Soden
Rotax Max Euro Challenge, Super1 TKM, British KF3, National Cadets - Connaught Racing Limited

"I was inconsistent and wasn’t putting in the performances I knew I was capable of. Mike helped me identify the key areas that were slowing me down, so we built a solid base and I gained powerful mental skills from the program. After a few weeks of working with Mike I could see a drastic improvement in my riding. Thank you, great stuff!”

Gareth Barns
125B Class - South African Regional MX Championship

"I was struggling to do the lap-times I knew I was capable of and wasn't qualifying for the nationals. Mike helped me find a clear and effective direction and got me performing more like my old self. I qualified for my next race at Donington. Great stuff!"

Lisa Thorne
British 125 GP - Team Scan Intel

“I had never heard of sport psychology before I met Mike and was not sure how relevant it was to me and my moto-cross, I was also struggling to complete all my motos and wasn’t racing the way my practice times said I should. After only a few weeks of working with Mike I’d moved forward and qualified for the AMCA Nationals.” 
Alex Hornsby
Open Class Moto-Cross Rider - MXMotorhomes.com / Delkevic Kawasaki 

"Without this support I would never have had raised my awareness, even if some of the issues were very simple ones! The tools and techniques I learned during the programme were given to me in a way I could continue to develop and use long after the end of the programme. This has made me a better competitor. Thanks!" MVo   Martine Verweij               Athlete                  MTB Racing
"The main thing I gained from working with a BASES sport psychologist was a high level of awareness-raising in the early stages of the 3-month programme. The questioning style used confirmed some gaps that I believed to be there in my mental approach and showed-up other gaps that I wasn't initially aware of. " MVo   Martine Verweij               Athlete                  MTB Racing
"My view of Mike is extremely positive. He has helped my athlete significantly and has done it in an easy going manner, which made him great to work with." BT 

“Mike is committed, organised and very focussed. He is a very efficient and effective practitioner." IM

“The workshop Mike gave to our team was well measured, well prepared and correctly focussed on how to develop our key staff." SR

“A very interesting and thought provoking workshop. Very relevant to assessing and treating the injured athlete." AH

“The workshop was very beneficial to my performance." RS

“Great workshop. I’d be interested to further this learning.” GD

 
"Mike has provided me with techniques that enable me to better control my emotions when I am competing. He has helped me to concentrate on the specific issues that I have and has given me ways to work through them so I can get closer to achieving my goals." EB 

Thankyou for an enlightening and informative workshop. From the complete

novice to more experienced athletes who had already used sports pschology -

everyone gained from the day and are already asking for more.

 

Barbara Hoole Secretary

Briitish Wheelchair Athletics Association

BSc (Hons) Physics                                                            College of Hild and St Bede, University of Durham
MSc Sport and Exercise Science (Psychology)             Sheffield Hallam University
BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Psychologist


British Triathlon Coach - Level 3
UK Athletics Coach - Level 2

Racer through and through, have been involved in motor sport all my life.

Keen amateur triathlete.

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