TEAM USA SCHOLARSHIP: RISING STARS AND STRIPES
If you were among those watching last year’s two end-of-season Formula Ford events, you cannot have failed to notice the two Team USA Scholarship cars. And not only because of their resplendent stars-and-stripes liveries.
Max Esterson from its number won Silverstone’s Walter Hayes Trophy having been the one to beat all weekend.
And a week earlier he similarly set the pace in Brands Hatch’s Formula Ford Festival, though his victory chance was dashed by a wet semi-final struggle, not helped by his tyre choice.
Still, in the Festival final Esterson rose thrillingly from starting 13th to finish second, just 0.138 seconds off what would have been a double win.
And his fellow Team USA runner Andre Castro completed the podium in third.
Team USA Scholarship offers a funded drive in those two blue-riband FF1600 events to two selected up-and-coming American drivers. It’s been going since 1990, and its alumni includes plenty of prestigious names (see sidebar), including Stateside stars Josef Newgarden, Jimmy Vasser and Conor
