Rory Smith became only the fifth-ever driver to win the Formula Ford Festival twice after a thrilling dice with Niall Murray ended with the latter’s hand aloft, signalling an irrecoverable loss of momentum.
With memories of 2022’s shockingly shortened edition still in people’s minds, the weekend started with each qualifying session held under a blanket of rain.
Conditions weren’t much improved for the first of the heats, but Luke Cooper in his Swift, with incredible sureness, was soon delivering a succession of fastest laps to ease to the first win of the day.
A drying line emerged in heat two and for Nolan Allaer the promise
