Foster switches to Firman

Last year’s Formula Ford Festival winner

Joey Foster will switch to a Firman chassis for this weekend’s event at Brands Hatch.

Foster claimed his third Festival success with a sensational around-the-outside move at Paddock Hill Bend in his Don Hardman-run Ray GR08 in 2017, and has campaigned the car for a full season in the National championship this year, winning the opening round at Silverstone.

He will now swap to the Firman chassis that won the 2017 National championship in the hands of Luke Williams for the end-of-season classics at Brands and Silverstone’s Walter Hayes Trophy.

“I thought, ‘Right, here’s a new challenge’,” said Foster. “We’ve won with the Ray last year; I’d love to be able to go out there and put on a good show in Ralph [Firman]’s car as well.”

Foster, who helped develop Firman’s BRDC Formula 4 machine, as well as Formula 2000 and Formula 1000 chassis for the US market, added: “I’ve done so much work for him in the past, it would be good to actually go out there and do a race in one of his cars.

“I haven’t tested it yet so it’s going to be interesting. I’ll try to get out at the Festival first thing on Wednesday morning [for testing] to try to understand the car and work our magic with it.”

Renault UK Clio Cup Junior graduate

Max Marzorati will also have a change of cars at the Festival. Marzorati, who has raced a Firman chassis run by Enigma Motorsport at Silverstone in July and then Team Dolan at Donington, will join the Swift Cooper team.