MOYER SE YES NATIONAL FF1600 SERIES FOR 2018
The winner of last weekend’s Walter Hayes Trophy, Michael Moyers, is looking to compete in the British Racing and Sports Car Club Formula Ford 1600 National Championship next season.
Moyers, who took his first Hayes win at Silverstone last weekend, has competed fulltime in the Castle Combe FF1600 championship for the last three seasons.
But after failing to win the championship, finishing second twice and third in ’17, the 32-year-old is looking to race at other venues across the UK.
“I don’t think there’s a more competitive series in the UK, the driving level is really high and it’s relatively affordable,” said Moyers of the national series, which has grown in popularity in recent seasons and will support the new TCR UK Championship next year.
“I’ve been looking at other things, it’s the enjoyment factor as well.
“I want to compete in something I have a realistic chance of winning at.”
Moyers has decided not to compete in the Combe FF1600 championship next season due to issues with how the series is run. Drivers racing in the Carnival – which Moyers went on to win – at Combe got out of their cars on the grid in protest after a number of time penalties were issued for track limits infringements in an earlier race. At the time, club director Steve Weston said: “As a club we will have a debrief on this event and the season as a whole and then we can make a proper assessment and comment.”
Josh Fisher, who won the Wiltshire circuit’s FF1600 title this year, will also race away from Castle Combe in 2018. He will return to the BRSCC FF1600 Northern Championship which he last did in 2015.
“He’s got enough [speed] to beat any of them [in the National championship],” said Wayne Poole, who runs Fisher. “We tried the Triple Crown this year [National Championship races at Brands, Domington and Silverstone] but we were smashed off and we don’t want to get involved in that.we don’t want to go up against that kind of crowd.”