Giving up a career in front-line rallying to run the family business, Richard Tuthill now heads one of the world’s leading Porsche specialists. We look at his Life & Cars - Tuthill_Porsche
Both astute and ambitious, Tuthill’s energy and focus is a force of nature, but his love of cars and driving brings an extra level of authenticity. His is a life very much fuelled by petrol and shaped by his father’s impressively liberal attitude towards giving his offspring early access to cars. RT takes up the tale: ‘My early memories of family cars is that we had Saabs. Specifically a V4 Estate where you’re sitting in the back facing backwards.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given his unorthodox pre-teen driving experience, Tuthill took three attempts to pass his driving test. But, being a Tuthill, the ink was barely dry on his licence when he embarked upon his first proper road trip, having been dispatched to Sweden to deliver a 2-litre short-wheelbase 911 for Bjorn Waldegard.
‘It was two weeks after passing my test so I’d never been anywhere, yet I jumped in this 911. Back in the day [circa 1991], there were no service vans on historic stuff, so you’d drive the car to the rally. The car had more spares in it than our stores does today. I was literally crapping myself all the way to Sweden. It didn’t get better once I got there. No mobile phone, armed with a map and appalling directions and no idea where I was.
As is often the case with race and rally drivers, when it comes to competitive exploits Tuthill can chart his four-wheeled life in minute detail, while road cars are viewed as more mundane workhorses. Nevertheless, he retains some fondness for certain road cars. Foremost amongst them is ‘Roy’, an early 8v‘I’ve got really good memories of Roy, so-called because the registration plate ended in R-O-Y. The GTI was a bit of a game-changer in terms of my road car experience. It was a cracking thing.
Like his father, Richard possesses exceptional skills as a rally driver. Indeed for a significant period of his life, pretty much from those university days until he took up the reins of the family business, Tuthill was a hot prospect.
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