Australian teenager Harry Hayek will race in the Ford EcoBoost powered MSA Formula this season with Jamun Racing. The 17 year-old from Sydney will move to the UK after finishing fourth in the Australian Formula 4 championship last season, which uses the same Ford-powered Mygale car as MSA Formula which is Britain’s version of the FIA’s Formula 4.
15-year-old Lando Norris clinched the MSA Formula (FIA Formula 4 Champion of Great Britain) title on the weekend, securing the crown after a season-long battle with his Carlin teammate Colton Herta and Arden's Ricky Collard.
Ricky Collard and Colton Herta joined Lando Norris on the top step of the MSA Formula Rockingham podium, Collard keeping alive his championship hopes with a decisive win in the reverse-grid race Sunday morning and Herta taking the closest win so far of this thrilling Ford EcoBoost-powered season, a quarter-second ahead of Saturday race victor Norris in the final race of the weekend.
Another dramatic weekend of British MSA Formula racing in Scotland netted race wins for Lando Norris, Sennan Fielding and Ricky Collard, with the sizeable Knockhill BTCC crowd wowed by a series of incidents, impacts and some exceptional driving. Fielding won the first of Sunday's races and Collard took the finale, again at Ticktum’s expense after he was hit with a penalty.
Fifteen-year-old Sandy Mitchell will fulfil an ambition next weekend (22/23 Aug) when he races at Knockhill, the track where he was inspired to pursue a career in motor sport. Forfar-based Sandy was just three when he watched his dad, Steve, race a Mini at Scotland’s national motorsport centre. Now their roles are reversed and Steve will be watching Sandy line up on the grid for the MSA Formula races at the wheel of his Ford EcoBoost-powered and TRS Arden-prepared single-seater.
Championship leader Ricky Collard battled back from adversity at Snetterton today in practice for the weekend’s rounds of the Ford EcoBoost-powered MSA Formula Championship. Nineteen-year-old Collard suffered a brake problem in the day’s first session which hampered his progress, but be bounced back in the afternoon to set a time less than three-tenths shy of Norfolk pacesetter Colton Herta.