CANADA SCHOLARSHIP EXPANDS IN LANDMARK YEAR
Team Canada Scholarship has completed its 10th year of bringing promising racers to the Formula Ford Festival and this year competed in the Walter Hayes
Trophy for the first time.
Similar to Team USA Scholarship, Team Canada Scholarship picks two promising Canadian drivers to race in the UK’s FF1600 showpieces with Graham Brunton Racing. IndyCar stars James Hinchliffe and Robert Wickens are among its judges.
The scholarship also this year used a shootout for the first time, and teenagers Kevin Foster and Jake Cowden were selected.
Both showed good pace in the recent end-of-year events; their best result was Foster finishing 11th in the Festival, his first-ever car racing event.
Scholarship founder and team boss Brian Graham told Motorsport News: “It’s [the Hayes] something we’ve always wanted to do, but just lacked the funding. Since 2019 Neil Braun has come onboard and has helped orchestrate a lot of the funding, and we’ve had some fundraising events.
“Our plan is that from this day forward our scholarship will include both events.
“Previous [to having the shootout] it was just looking at their [candidates’] resumes, if it was someone I wasn’t familiar with I would travel to a race. So the shootout is a great opportunity.”