FEATURE ALL THE FUN OF THE FESTIVAL

They say you’ve either got it or you haven’t. And the Formula Ford Festival is one thing on the motorsport landscape that certainly has it.

To take one way of illustrating the point, as the newly crowned British GT champion Dennis Lind told Motorsport News this week, when he’s in the UK among racing people one subject keeps coming up: said in awed tones, ‘you’re a Festival winner?’ To illustrate its special status another way, the manic Festival knock-out event hits its 50th event this weekend, having run unbroken since 1972 when British Racing and Sports Car Club visionary Peter Browning had the idea to run an autumn all-Formula Ford event at Snetterton.

And it was quickly apparent at that first event that Browning was on to something, as reported to MN by Rick Morris, who raced in it. “I scraped together £500 and bought a second-hand Hawke DL2B from a friend of a friend of a friend,” he says. “It was the most amazing Festival you’ve ever