Forthcoming UK Events
| Date | Event | Location |
| 06-08.07.2012 | Formula 1 British Grand Prix | Silverstone (Arena GP) |
| 01-03.06.2012 | British Drift Championship | Norfolk Arena |
| 23-24.06.2012 | MG Live 2012 | Silverstone |
| 25-26.08.2012 | FIA World Endurance Championship | Silverstone |
The 2012 Season Starts Here
The last week has seen a flurry of activity as championships big and small held their annual media days and opening tests, with some already even getting down to racing proper. The British Touring Car Championship heads strongly into a new all-turbo generation and this year boasts 10 models from nine different marques on its 24-car grid, including the technicolour liveried return of the MG name.
The BTCC season opener hits Brands Hatch on 1st April, followed a week later by the first rounds of the British GT Championship and the British F3 International Series at Oulton Park. While some single-seater formulae have struggled in recent times - Formula Renault postponing its UK series due to poor entries - British F3 continues to attract young talent. With recent champions including the Scuderia Toro Rosso pairing of Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne, its status as a stepping-stone to Formula 1 is hard to dispute.
Read more...Malvern Poised to Take Formula Ford Title
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- Category: Single Seaters
- Friday, 16 September 2011
No race-winning heroics are required from Jamun Racing Mygale pilot Malvern to clinch the crown: Scott needs to complete the three-race Donington weekend with at least 93 points in hand over his remaining title rivals, and his current advantage is 96. He is in line to become Jamun’s seventh consecutive Formula Ford champion.
Indeed Malvern’s rivals would be quite pleased if he didn’t add to his record tally of wins, which stands at 15 from 18 British championship races, with 13 of those victories consecutive. Six races remain - three next weekend at Donington and three next month at Silverstone - for the season’s other race-winners, Jeroen Slaghekke and Geoff Uhrhane, and those queuing up to break their ducks, including Antti Buri, Nick McBride and Dan de Zille, to bring Malvern’s dominance to a close.
Dutch driver Slaghekke won at Silverstone at the start of the year and then again earlier this month at Brands Hatch, and the Jamun driver is locked in combat with fast Finn Buri and Aussie McBride to decide the outcome of second and third places in the championship. Slaghekke and Buri are currently tied on points, with McBride only 12 points behind them and hoping to help Jamun secure a championship 1-2-3.
Buri will be joined in the Geva Racing team for Donington by Dutch Formula Ford Championship top-five finishers Steijn Schothorst and Jelle Beelen.
There will be an extra runner also in the JTR team at Donington Park, with 17-year-old kart star Max Marshall stepping into one of the squad’s Mygales for his first race outing. JTR regulars Tristan Mingay, de Zille and Silverstone round three victor Uhrhane will be in action also.
The other championship title to be resolved at Donington Park is that for the junior drivers, the Scholarship Cup, which is certain to go to Cavan Corcoran at the Matlock man’s home track. Corcoran has notched up 14 Scholarship class wins already this season, 12 with Getem Racing’s Mygale and two with a Ray from his new team, Cliff Dempsey Racing. He will however face a challenge from France-domiciled youngster Matt Rao at the wheel of one of Fluid Motorsport’s Van Diemens, and from newcomer Marshall.
The other Van Diemen will be in the capable hands of Matthew Parry, the 17-year-old from Cardiff who is on the brink of claiming his maiden Formula Ford podium. Rays for Finland’s Jesse Anttila and Team USA Scholarship winner Neil Alberico will join the Mygales of Spike Goddard, Philippe Layac and Luke Williams on the Donington grid.
