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2008 British Formula Ford Championship Knockhill

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


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