A HAT-TRICK
AT KNOCKHILL FOR WAYNE BOYD
Jamun
Racing Service’s Wayne Boyd claimed a hat-trick of British
Formula Ford Championship race wins at Knockhill in Rounds
4, 5 & 6 taking his wins to five for the season to
lead the Championship from team-mate Tim Blanchard.
All three races were won from pole position and Wayne
said "It's been really good, and the car has been
fantastic all weekend. The first two races weren't really
a problem but the third was not so straightforward - basically
I was a passenger in the car when it hit some oil and
that dropped me back to third. But I managed to make it
up by the end."
In
the fourth round on Saturday he lead the race all the
way from his fourth pole position of the 2008 British
Formula Ford Championship despite some difficult weather
conditions and a safety car period, to the chequered flag.
From the start he saw off a determined challenge from
Westley Barber's Comtec who had started second on the
grid and by Scotsman corner he was in charge and had opened
up a two-second gap within a matter of four laps over
Getem Racing’s Linton Stuteley. The safety car brought
Wayne Boyd's lead down to nothing after it was brought
out following a collision involving the cars of Matt Hamilton
and Glen Wood, the latter ending up beached. Flawlessly
he got away from the restart only to met by a a hailstorm
three laps from the end but nothing was going to stop
him winning the race which was shortened by one lap after
it was red flagged following a number of cars going off.
After a poor start, which left him in 13th position on
the opening lap Australian team-mate Tim Blanchard got
the extra point for his lap record-breaking drive to fifth,
with Brazilian Victor Correa finishing seventh and James
Cole completing the Jamun line-up in ninth.
The
track and weather conditions were much better for round
5 on Sunday morning with Wayne again pulling away the
start, but this time opening up a gap from Stuteley of
almost a second on the opening lap to finish the race
with a 5.7-second margin. Tim Blanchard made the podium
in third place behind Stuteley having passed Barber and
team-mate Victor Correa after he ran wide at Carlube Corner
but he still took fifth with Jamun team-mate James Cole
finishing in eighth.
After the race Wayne said "I tried as hard as I could
to make a gap straight away, and pushed like mad and fortunately
we had the pace to do it."
Wayne
Boyd also dominated round 6 and by the third lap was a
second clear of Barber, his closest chaser, and it was
looking that he would again romp away but on the fourth
lap after going off and coming back on at Butcher's Rogier
De Wit's JTR Mygale collided with his team-mate Layac
and oil was dumped on the track which caught Wayne out
and sent him sliding off. He managed to get back on behind
Barber and Tim Blanchard, but a six-lap safety car period
followed to recover the crashed cars, which also now included
the Van Diemen of Sorensen who also got caught out by
the oil. A lap after the restart Barber went into the
gravel at Carlube and through Hislop's and into the hairpin
Wayne Boyd passed team-mate Tim Blanchard to take the
lead again and although he tried hard Tim finished six-tenth’s
back with Victor Correa making it a Jamun 1-2-3 with his
best finish of the season. James Cole completed Jamun’s
line-up coming home in tenth place