Well I don’t know if it’s really sunk in yet but I am the 2011 Dunlop MSA Formula Ford of Great Britain Champion. Added to the 4 Euro Cup events that we won in June, July & August and it’s been an amazing season so far and we still have three final rounds of the championship and the Formula Ford Festival to come and I’d really like to compete in both if possible.

When it does sink in properly I will tell you for sure that this will be really satisfying for a number of reasons. Firstly because after the opening rounds on the Silverstone National circuit and what happened there some people were writing me off and I’m pleased to be able to prove them wrong in the nicest possible way. Write me off at your peril because it’s been a very hard road for me to get here and I am not going to be beaten so easily by a set back or two.

In 2008 I was working as a young mechanic at Jamun Racing for my friend Tim Blanchard. I said to myself then that I would return one day and win this championship as a driver. If I had said that publicly at the time I think most people would have laughed! I certainly didn’t have the means to go car racing, even in Formula Ford, but I refused to give up on my dream and with the help of my family plus some very loyal and dear supporters and a lot of hard work here I am less than three years later having achieved my goal. But now I am not satisfied with that. I want more success and the chance to prove that I can win at any level in motor racing. And one thing is for sure, if I don’t achieve this, it won’t be for the lack of trying!

So Donington was another great weekend. I took three poles in qualifying in quite dramatic style stealing the final one from my team mate Nick McBride at the very last possible moment. I get on very well with Nick but I did slightly guilty about this; not for too long though!

But Nick had his revenge in race two when he literally stole the win from me by thousandths of a second almost at the last corner. Cheers Buddy!  Actually I was delighted for Nick. He had been very quick all weekend as he often has been this year, but so far victory had eluded him so it was great for him to finally get a win. Just don’t think you are going to go making a habit of it when I’m racing as well though matey! Seriously though he thoroughly deserved it and with less at stake than I had he was able and willing to push a bit harder than I did in the tricky conditions.

Races one and three though were relatively straight forward lights to flag wins for more me; my 20^th & 21^st wins this season. I say relatively because nothing is ever as easy as it looks and the competition has been of a very high standard this year not least from within my own team with Jeroen and Nick always very rapid and Spike improving all the time. Then elsewhere Antti  Buri has a lot of experience and is a formidable racer and of course Geoff Uhrhane like many of the Australian drivers that have come over to the UK showed immediately that he was fast.

We won’t be resting on our laurels. We have to build on this success but for now I have quite a lot in the diary over the next few weeks so I’ll be blogging about all that on here again soon.

Thank you very much to the Jamun Racing Team who have provided me with a great car all year, my ace mechanic Tom Huxtable, and to all my supporters who you can find out more about by clicking here.

All the best

Scott

All photos by kind courtesy and permission of Jacob Ebrey Motorsport Photography.

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