The Historic Formula Ford Championship delivered two of the closest finishes ever seen in Historic Sports Car Club racing during a fantastic weekend at the Legends of Brands Hatch Super Prix in mid-July.
A fabulous 26-car field of pre-1972 Formula Fords gathered at Brands Hatch to show that the championship is in excellent health as the leading contenders raced for the Ray Allen Trophy.
Incredibly, both races on the wonderful Grand Prix circuit featured close to dead heat finishes as Cam Jackson and Benn Tilley raced to the line. In the opening race on Saturday, Jackson won by the margin of 41 hundredths of a second, but on Sunday Tilley turned the tables and edged ahead to the line to win by 38 hundredths of a second.
With the Ray Allen Trophy going to the aggregate winner, the verdict went to Jackson by just three thousandths of a second after two fabulous races.
Great battles all the way down the bumper field made it a fine weekend for Historic Formula Ford racing and honoured the man who won the very first Formula Ford race at Brands Hatch back in 1967.
The boom in historic Formula Ford is set to continue for the next two races at Croft in North Yorkshire on August 10-11 when a grid of at least 20 cars is expected. The season will then conclude at the Silverstone Finals meeting in October, when the organisers are targeting a 30-car grid to end the season in style. Historic Formula Ford 1600 has been one of the HSCC’s most successful championships for three decades.
Andy Dee-Crowne, CEO of the HSCC, said: “It’s great to see strong grids and fabulous racing in Historic Formula Ford. The two Brands Hatch races were sensational, and I congratulate both Cam Jackson and Benn Tilley for delivering two such close finishes.”