Humanitarian trip for Park to offer support for Ukrainians

Historic single-seater racer Andrew Park travelled to Poland last week to deliver a trailer load of humanitarian aid for distribution in the Ukraine.

Park and his friend Mark James drove from Cumbria with an articulated truck full of goods needed by Ukrainians following the invasion by Russia.

“The goods were palletised in categories and loaded onto a trailer ready to ship out,” said Park, who is best known in historic racing as a four-time champion in Historic FF2000.

“We only took goods that had been requested by the people. I was glad to be doing it, but also very sad that we were doing this and that this is actually happening to the people of Ukraine.

“We had an address in Poland where the goods were unloaded into a collection point, and then delivered to locations where they are needed.”

A ‘Gofundme’ page set up to cover their fuel and toll costs of around £3000 has already raised nearly £10,000.

“Any money we didn’t need to use towards tolls or fuel will be donated to a suitable charity,” said

Park (right), who will shortly start the racing season in his Reynard SF81. British karter Jarlath Sayer will also be raising funds for Ukrainians after coming up with the idea of holding a charity karting event in the build-up to the British Grand Prix at Rye House.