WALTER HAYES WINNER WHITE GETS CARRERA CUP GB REDLINE CHANCE
FF1600 star gets a surprise BTCC-support seat with title-winning Redline in Duckhams colours
Long-time Formula Ford 1600 frontrunner and Walter Hayes Trophy winner Oli White will race in Carrera Cup GB this year with Redline Racing in iconic yellow-and-blue Duckhams colours.
White joins new Porsche GB junior Adam Smalley in Duckhams-sponsored Redline Porsches this year. British Touring Car star Dan Cammish claimed his three Carrera Cup GB crowns with Redline, including his title won last year when he returned to the category for a season and also raced in a Duckhams livery.
White in recent years has been a regular victory contender in top-level Formula Ford events including the blue-riband Festival and Walter Hayes and has taken several FF1600 titles including winning 2020’s Hayes and several Champion of Brands crowns. The 29-year-old also took part in America’s prestigious Road to Indy shootouts in 2016 and ’17, coming a close second to Oliver Askew in the former, and has scored a hat-trick of wins at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama.
White said: “Chris Hodgen [Duckhams programme manager] gave me the opportunity to test one of Redline’s 991.2-style GT3
Cup cars at the Porsche Taster Day at the end of last season and it seemed to go really well. Simon
Leonard [Redline Racing team owner] then invited me out to Portimao to have a full day in the car over the winter to really test me out.”
Hodgen added: “Oliver was actually the inspiration behind looking to increase our involvement to two cars this season. [He is] blisteringly quick and a great guy to boot.”