Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone (September 15th & 16th, 2012)
Gary Eastwood & Alex Martin took wins a piece in the UK Ferrari Open and the Coppa Giovani (young driver) class of the Ferrari European Challenge Championship at the weekend.
Gary put on a determined performance when he stormed through from 5th on the grid to take a dominant win in Sunday’s race.
Alex Martin also put on a great showing to record his first victory in the Coppa Giovanni class of the Ferrari Challenge. Alex showed great pace throughout the weekend on his home turf and recorded his best results of the season so far.
With FF Corse running 13 cars for drivers in the team, there was plenty of action throughout all the races. Mick Dwane finished 6th and second best of the FF Corse drivers in race 1 and podium positions were achieved in the top 3 Classes of the Ferrari Open. Toby Tarrant-Willis and Jacques Duyver in Class C3 and Robert Macfarlane in Class C4.
Of the drivers, Ivor Dunbar, Shamus Jennings, Rob Tarrant-Willis & Peter Jennings were making their debuts in the Ferrari Open with FF Corse. Peter Jenning’s amazed expectations by qualifying on in 5th and 6th positions for his first ever car race and followed this up with 8th & 5th place finishing positions.
Shamus & Ivor both put in very respectable performances to finish strongly in the very competitive 30 car field. Mark McAllister recorded to ten positions in both races and Ian Hartley, in his Ferrari F430 Challenge, challenged strongly throughout to finish just outside the podium in both races. Rob also driving an F430 Challenge ran well throughout to finish both of his first races ahead of some stronger opposition.
Rupert Martin also recorded his best qualifying and race performances of the season. In race one he finished just outside the top ten in 11 th position and followed this up with a 13th position against a very strong European driver line-up.