The Legend of the Formula Ford Festival
eBook - ePub

The Legend of the Formula Ford Festival

Fifty Years of Motor Racing Action

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eBook - ePub

The Legend of the Formula Ford Festival

Fifty Years of Motor Racing Action

About this book

For more than 50 years the Formula Ford Festival has been the proving ground for ambitious racing drivers looking to make their mark. The Brands Hatch meeting was where the likes of Johnny Herbert, Damon Hill and Jenson Button first made their names, while both Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell never made it out of their heats. Now a club meeting, in its heyday the Festival was one of the UK's biggest motor sport events, drawing tens of thousands of spectators, and enjoying more than a decade of prime coverage on the BBC's Grandstand. From humble beginnings at a cold Snetterton, the move to Brands Hatch, the peak of the 1980s followed by a gentle decline, this book tells the story of the Festival. Drawing on exclusive contributions from some of the event's legends and prestigious alumni, it covers all the on-track action together with off-track intrigue and controversies.

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eBook ISBN
9781801503372
Edition
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Author’s note
  7. Introduction
  8. The origins of Formula Ford
  9. Early days at Snetterton
  10. Early Brands Hatch years
  11. Glory days
  12. Stars are made here
  13. The Kent era ends on a high
  14. Enter the Zetecs
  15. Final years as the World Cup of motorsport
  16. Decline and fall of the Zetecs
  17. The ‘other’ Festivals
  18. Rebirth with Duratecs
  19. Return to club roots
  20. Afterword
  21. Photos