Posts tagged MSA Formula

Piers Prior hopes to be racing in MSA Formula at Brands Hatch

On Monday’s #DownforceDebrief show, Driver Piers Prior revealed how he will be travelling to Brands Hatch this weekend for the opening round of the 2016 MSA Formula championship and how he hopes to be racing too. 68:19

In an exchange with the host about the first round of the season he said “I’m going, just whether I’m driving or not is not confirmed yet” and Piers confirmed he’ll be taking his helmet, just in case he gets the call.  84:28

If Piers does get nod, it’s widely expected that he will be racing with Falcon Motorsport for whom he recently tested at the media day at Rockingham. He would also be racing in a rich field of talent which includes Sennan Fielding, Jack Butel, Jamie Caroline, Ross Martin, James Pull and the 2014 Downforce Radio Teenage Racer of the Year award winner Alex Quinn.

Here is Piers in an MSA Formula car, testing for Falcon Motorsport recently.

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https://twitter.com/PiersPrior/status/712774982955302912

Feature Image Credit: Piers Prior on Twitter

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British Formula 3 is back!

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MSV has announced that it’s BRDC F4 Championship will be renamed as “BRDC British Formula 3 Championship” with immediate effect.

Since launching as an affordable entry level single-seater championship three years ago, BRDC F4 has gone from strength to strength boasting live TV coverage, while crowning Jake Hughes, George Russell and Will Palmer as champions.

For 2016, the championship has attracted many big names making the switch from MSA Formula including champion Lando Norris as well as Ricky Collard and Enaam Ahmed.

The championship in 2016 has a brand new car, the FA-016 Tatuus-Cosworth, which is a lot more powerful than the previous Ralph Firman car and close to the performance of a typical F3 car.

Jonathan Palmer, Chief Executive of BRDC British F3 promoter MSV, said: “I am delighted that we have successfully worked with the FIA and MSA to streamline British single seater motorsport and establish a clear and logical hierarchy for both drivers and teams. Our much advanced 2016 BRDC F4 Tatuus-Cosworth car has proved an outstanding success, being very close to the performance of British F3 in its heyday – but at less than half the budget. Cost effectiveness and value for money is critical to any championship’s health, and having set standards with our BRDC F4 Championship we are now doing the same at F3 level with the BRDC British F3 Championship.”

The winner of this year’s F3 Championship will join a long list of star names to have graced British F3 in the past including, Ayrton Senna, Jim Clark, Mika Hakkinen.

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Debrief – Lando Norris, Ricky Collard, Rob Gaffney

Big Debrief this week as we hear from BRSCC’s Scott Woodwiss & Adam Weller as they bring us a review of the BTCC season and top interviews with MSA Formula drivers Ricky Collard and the 2015 Champion Lando Norris, PLUS GT Cup’s GTA Champion Rob Gaffney is on the show as well as talks about F1

On the show this week: Lester Forbes, Adam Weller, Alex Goldschmidt, Tom Brooks, Vicky Selwyn, Dom Mottram, Scott Woodwiss & Adam Johnson

Running Order
[spp-timestamp time=”00:00″] – Intro
[spp-timestamp time=”7:30″] – F1 Chat (Powered by the Addicted to F1 facebook group)
[spp-timestamp time=”35:35″] – BTCC Chat
[spp-timestamp time=”59:00″] – ROB GAFFNEY INTERVIEW
[spp-timestamp time=”77:54″] – RICKY COLLARD INTERVIEW
[spp-timestamp time=”93:37 “]- LANDO NORRIS INTERVIEW
[spp-timestamp time=”106:40”] – DTM Preview

Lando Norris Interview

After winning 2 out of his first ever single seater races in MSA Formula on the BTCC Package, 15yr Old Lando Dropped into #DownforceDebrief and chatted with Lester and the panel to discuss his first race weekend of 2015
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