Well as you may have read in the Motorsport Press by now, my 2010 plans are to continue with Cliff Dempsey Racing and to race in the MSA British Formula Ford Championship. We also plan to use the Ray chassis again. Ray haven’t taken any victories in the British Championship since Nick Tandy won in 2007 so we would very much like to rectify that situation although don’t think for a minute that we are underestimating the enormity of the task.
I was very flattered to revceive a number of approaches from several of the top Formula Ford Teams and we did consider things very carefully. But when we joined up with Cliff at the beginning of last year to race in National FF1600 we always talked about moving up to Duratec in 2010 if we did a good job in 2009. Well we certainly did do a good job and I am very happy with the team and all of the team personnel and therefore saw no reason to split up a successful combination. I also know that Cliff has a burning desire to return to the British Championship having not competed there since 2006 when his own son Peter took third place in the series and won 4 races.
So there we have it. We now have to sort out some of the detail but hope to be able to start testing in a few weeks from now and with the change to Dunlop tyres believe that we will have as a good a chance as anyone although I’m sure my former colleagues at Jamun, and some of the other experienced teams, will be up to speed pretty quickly!
It will definately be a challenge and one that I am relishing very much!! I’ll be back with further updates soon! Until then; Happy New Year to all!