White’s FF1600 ‘quadruple crown’ ambition
Oliver White admits that, such is the nature of these things, even a dominant run to the title in this year’s National Formula Ford 1600 championship is unlikely to open career doors for him. Not without vast additional budget anyway.
But, even so, he does have a grand ambition from at last completing a full National campaign this season. Last year in a Van Diemen RF89 he claimed the inaugural Heritage Formula
Ford championship, a category for pre-1993 Kent-engined cars, often viewed as being from Formula
Ford’s ‘golden age’. And this year in modern machinery White hopes to complete step two of what would be a unique Formula Ford championship quadruple.
“If I win the National this year I’d like to next year do either the
Historic or the Classic Formula Ford championship and try and win all four in four years,” he tells MN.
“But obviously it depends on how
I get on this year. If I don’t win this year that plan sort of ruins!
“I’ve always enjoyed driving the older cars,” White continues, “they actually suit my driving style a bit better, there’s loads of front-end grip and less rear grip, so you can throw them around more and I enjoy driving them more.
The newer cars are definitely better in the higher-speed corners. If I actually had to choose for pure enjoyment I’d choose the older cars to drive, definitely.
“I don’t think anyone’s won all four championships, so it’d be nice to do that. That’s the plan!”