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    Smith overcomes Browne and the weather to claim Festival honours

    Oct 29, 2020 4 minutes
    MARK PAULSON

    BRANDS HATCH

    BRSCC

    24-25 OCTOBER

    Just like last year, a Formula Ford 1600 National Championship frontrunner who had gone a little under the radar heading into the biggest event of the season hit top form to claim success in the Formula Ford Festival.

    For Jonathan Browne in 2019, read Rory Smith in 2020. Browne was the man who Smith had to overcome in the final but, unlike the Irishman last year, it wasn’t a case of leading from the front all weekend.

    Drawn in arguably the toughest heat, Smith qualified his B-M Racing Medina JL18 down in fourth.

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