New name, same aim for Low Dempsey Racing in 2020
The team’s name may be changed, becoming Low Dempsey Racing in reflection of its new ownership, yet the team enters another Formula Ford campaign still looking formidable. Jonathan Browne continues in its driver line-up, fresh from dominating 2019’s Formula Ford Festival, and he’s joined by the latest two promising Americans, Bryce Aron and Grant Palmer.
Cliff Dempsey tells Motorsport News: “The reason Jonathan stayed on having won the Festival was he is part of a three-year programme. We said in two years you can learn a lot; three years you can complete the learning curve.”
It’s something Browne agrees with: “I respect Cliff enough and I trust his opinion,” he tells MN, “and his opinion was he thinks I need another year and I was like ‘you know more than I do!’”
Dempsey continues: “Bryce Aron, who I’d noticed in the Festival [last year] and he looked pretty quick, he was talking with Jeremy Shaw and looking around [for a team] and he came and asked us and I’m delighted that we’ve got him. He’s a 16-year-old and he has a lot of talent, he certainly has the pace. Whether he has the racing skills, we don’t know, we have to wait and see.
“And then we have Grant Palmer, who hasn’t done an awful lot, certainly not in 1600, he’s done a little bit of F4 Regional and a few other bits and pieces, but he’s come here to learn as has Bryce. There’s no better place in the world to learn about motor racing than the UK and especially in Formula Ford 1600.”
New boss Andy Low is similarly bullish: “Jonathan’s a proven race winner now and he was untouchable at the Festival. Bryce has shown some really good form in testing and Grant, everything he’s done so far in America looks really promising so he’ll go well as well. Definitely we can achieve the National championship.”