Road safety officer Nicola is also a 'petrol head'
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Nicola Olsson is a Jekyll and Hyde petrol head.
Nicola’s 9 to 5 job with Carmarthenshire Council is as a road safety officer. This wildly contrasts with her weekend manic, muddy, motoring mayhem sideways-drifting hobby of grass-track racing.
After 20 years of near podium misses Nicolas has landed silverware and showers of laurel wreaths the becoming this month national champion and Ladies Champion of Champions.
When she is not skidding her stuff on the dirt tracks Nicola can be operating a number of road safety schemes across the county, advising people of the safe fitting of baby and child car seats and boosters, organising cycle proficiency through schools and dressing down speeding motorists with pupils outside schools.
As one who regularly red zones the rev counter of her specialised custom grass track XXX machine, Nicola has no sympathy and takes many prisoners with school pupils around the country speed gun snatching the errant speeding motorists outside Carmarthenshire’s primary schools.
She said: “I have no qualms challenging motorists to speak to school children and embarrassing themselves in explaining why they should be speeding outside a school or anywhere else. It has a sobering effect and the alternative is to receive a fine and penalty driving points on their licence.
“There has been one occasion when one driver could not face the humiliation of explaining her actions and took the spot fine and points instead.”
Nicola said there was a time and place for racing and a need for all the appropriate gear with crash hat, roll cage, full body harness and marshals on standby.
“My family have been involved in Autograss and rallying for years. It’s in the blood. My dad Cenfyn is a past chairman of the Carmarthen Autograss Club and mum used to compete as well.
“But this result is the best anyone has achieved. I could not have done so without all their support and help, including husband, Phil.
“It has been a long exciting and enjoyable road because I have been competing for 20 years. There have been a few broken bones along the way and lots of shunts. But I have not yet managed to roll over and be suspended. I get the adrenalin rush and pedal the metal. But there are no speed guns on the tracks I use.”
County road safety manager Keith Griffiths said: “Nicola does some tremendous work with our team. It is fantastic she has proven herself the best at what she does on the racing circuit too.
“It is a bit of dichotomy balancing her hobby and work differences. But it just goes to show there is a time and place for speed if you are so inclined.”
Nicola’s 9 to 5 job with Carmarthenshire Council is as a road safety officer. This wildly contrasts with her weekend manic, muddy, motoring mayhem sideways-drifting hobby of grass-track racing.
After 20 years of near podium misses Nicolas has landed silverware and showers of laurel wreaths the becoming this month national champion and Ladies Champion of Champions.
When she is not skidding her stuff on the dirt tracks Nicola can be operating a number of road safety schemes across the county, advising people of the safe fitting of baby and child car seats and boosters, organising cycle proficiency through schools and dressing down speeding motorists with pupils outside schools.
As one who regularly red zones the rev counter of her specialised custom grass track XXX machine, Nicola has no sympathy and takes many prisoners with school pupils around the country speed gun snatching the errant speeding motorists outside Carmarthenshire’s primary schools.
She said: “I have no qualms challenging motorists to speak to school children and embarrassing themselves in explaining why they should be speeding outside a school or anywhere else. It has a sobering effect and the alternative is to receive a fine and penalty driving points on their licence.
“There has been one occasion when one driver could not face the humiliation of explaining her actions and took the spot fine and points instead.”
Nicola said there was a time and place for racing and a need for all the appropriate gear with crash hat, roll cage, full body harness and marshals on standby.
“My family have been involved in Autograss and rallying for years. It’s in the blood. My dad Cenfyn is a past chairman of the Carmarthen Autograss Club and mum used to compete as well.
“But this result is the best anyone has achieved. I could not have done so without all their support and help, including husband, Phil.
“It has been a long exciting and enjoyable road because I have been competing for 20 years. There have been a few broken bones along the way and lots of shunts. But I have not yet managed to roll over and be suspended. I get the adrenalin rush and pedal the metal. But there are no speed guns on the tracks I use.”
County road safety manager Keith Griffiths said: “Nicola does some tremendous work with our team. It is fantastic she has proven herself the best at what she does on the racing circuit too.
“It is a bit of dichotomy balancing her hobby and work differences. But it just goes to show there is a time and place for speed if you are so inclined.”
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