Radical Motorsport’s Argentine racer Juan Rosso has taken victory in the second Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain race at Thruxton. The win makes Rosso the fifth winner in eight races in the single seater category for 2014, joining Sam Brabham, Jayde Kruger, Harrison Scott and his own Radical team mate James Abbott.
Having taken the pole based on his race one finishing position, Rosso fought off the unwelcome advances of JTR Motorsport’s runner Max Marshall at the start. By the end of the first lap Rosso had an advantage of almost a second over Marshall, though in the next sixteen tours he would only add another 0.9 of a second to that lead at the end of the race. Marshall took second place, holding off the Falcon Motorsport machine of Scott.
“I’m so happy for all the team,” Rosso enthused. “We have worked so hard for this. We knew that we could win but we have had some bad luck at times; now the car is wonderful and I am really pleased with my race.”
“I had good pace,” added Marshall, “but it was a case of trying to manage the tyres so that there is some life left in them for tomorrow’s race. Rosso was very quick, I have to hand it to him. I’m happy, and my tyres look all right.”
Ashley Sutton took fourth for Jamun Racing after capitalising on an aborted pass from race one winner Sam Brabham. The #1 machine was looking to put a move on Scott, but the Falcon man closed the door and Brabham had to brake. That let Sutton through and Brabham couldn’t do anything about it.
Kruger started last for JTR but scrambled his way up to sixth by the end of the race ahead of Radical’s Abbott. Ricky Collard improved his somewhat troubled lot at Thruxton by taking second in the Scholarship class for Falcon Motorsport, four places behind Sutton who topped the class. Connor Mills took class third in seemingly constant partnership with Bobby Thompson, who shares the Meridian Motorsport awning.
Ovie Iroro’s Richardson Racing run machine took eleventh ahead of the perennial back marker, Greg Holloway for SWB Motorsport. Every car which went out for the second race took the chequered flag, though conspicuous by it’s absence was the Falcon run Mygale of Chris Mealin which took significant damage in race one.
