Jamun Racing Services British Formula Ford Team Champions

Callum Macleod 2007 British Formula Ford Champion

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Jamun Racing Services UK Formula Ford Team Champions

Charlie Donnelly UK Formula Ford Champion

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Jamun Racing Services UK Formula Ford Team Champions

Jamun Team Manager Tony Mundy has a degree in design engineering and was Chief Designer at GEC for years and motor racing was then purely a hobby and remained very much a secondary activity.
He worked on the American F16 fighter jets and helped design the Head -up Display which is now used by all miltary and commercial aircraft. He finally left GEC to start Jamun Racing Services as motor racing was his real interest.

The first Jamun car built was the T2 of 1969, the quality of the design still continues to prove competitive in historic FF1600 events today. More Jamun FF 1600s followed, but it wasn't until 1989 when Neil McBride (who later became an F3000 engineer) became the first full-time employee, that Tony gave up his job to concentrate on racing.
The first few seasons saw Jamun and works driver Chris Hall competing with a Formula Ford 1600 car, gain many wins which culminated in the team winning the coveted Champion of Brands title in 1991 along with the Winter Series title. They also finished an impressive 7th overall in the Formula Ford Festival and World Cup in the same year.
In 1992 Jamun decided to contest the National Formula Ford Championship and during this year gave the works Van Diemen and Swift teams something to think about when they achieved numerous top six finishes including an excellent 3rd place at Donington Park. Again Chris finished 7th in the Festival of that year and Jamun continued to dominate at Brands Hatch where Mark Marchant won the 1992 Winter Series with two wins and two second places from 5 starts.
In 1993 the company concentrated on a number of other projects, including detail design and fabrication of the Chris Craft Rocket road car. Tony Mundy worked with Gordon Murray of Brabham and Mclaren fame on this unique and exciting road car, producing the first and second prototypes, thereafter producing all the smaller production parts, i.e. suspension, pedals, gear linkage etc.
Towards the end of 1993 Jamun designed and constructed a Zetec engined Formula Ford for the Formula Ford Festival and World Cup. With two weeks to spare the brand new car was finished and despite the lack of testing and development the car finished a creditable 15th overall in the hands of Mark Marchant.
1994 saw Jamun return to the Champion of Brands Series with Mark Marchant and by August of that year with three rounds remaining, Mark had secured the title with 6 wins from 10 rounds. Mark and Jamun won races at Lydden Hill setting a new lap record in the process.
For 1996 Tony Mundy designed a brand new Formula Ford car that would accept either the Ford 1600 or the 1800 Zetec engine. In the 1600 configuration, with Mark Marchant driving, the car won numerous 1600 races, ending the year by winning the prestigious 1600 Duckhams Formula Ford Festival and World Cup at Brands Hatch.
During 1997 Jamun concentrated on building a batch of customers’ cars. However a Zetec' version of the car was running in the remaining 4 rounds of the National Slick 50 Championship. This high profile series supporting the British Saloon Car Championship had cars entered by all the major manufacturers. With only limited time to develop the car it was already a top 10 finisher.
Jamun have also produced a number of customer Formula Ford cars in 1600 and Zetec form, in addition to providing support for customers at race meetings. Their semi works car with Neil Blunden driving had finished the 1999 season winning both the Champion of Kent Zetec Championship and the Slick 50 Zetec Challenge Series.
In 2001 Haywood Racing boss Jim Warren, who had won Formula Ford titles with Jenson Button and Nicolas Kiesa in works Mygales approached Tony and he recalls "I'd got to know Jim, and when he decided to pack up he came to me and asked if I wanted a couple of his Mygales and a transporter," recalls Tony. "He offered me a deal I couldn't refuse. We made the conscious decision then to stop building our own cars."
It was a turning point for the team and with the competitive and developed Mygale SJOI’s, Jamun attracted top young talent for the first time..