DONINGTON PARK
HSCC
24-25 JUNE
Jake Shortland’s maiden victory in Classic Formula Ford at Donington Park last weekend was momentous aboard the only Lola T440 in the UK. Shortland, 29, with around 10 car races on his CV over several seasons, qualified fifth, 0.607 seconds from poleman Joseph Ahrens, with Ben Tinkler, Rick Morris and Mike Gardner separating them. Come the race, in which Gardner and Tinkler lost nosecones (with Tinkler retiring), Shortland remained calm and brilliantly beat Morris – Ayrton Senna’s conqueror at Silverstone in 1981. Not since Mike Blanchet’s Townsend Thoresen success at Oulton Park in May 1977 had a T440 won
