QUEEN JOINS FORTEC FOR GB4 IN 2023
Formula Ford shootout winner uses £20K prize to join team that took ’22 title
GB4’s National Formula Ford shootout winner Colin Queen will race in the GB4 championship next season with Fortec Motorsport that took Nikolas Taylor to this year’s inaugural title.
Seventeen-year-old American Queen finished runner-up in this year’s National Formula Ford standings, and he then won the shootout, held at Snetterton in October, for the top three teenagers in the National contest. His shootout prize was £20,000 from organiser MotorSport Vision to put towards a GB4 drive.
Queen is the first 2023 GB4 driver signing for the Fortec team. The squad also laid on the GB4 cars for the Snetterton shootout.
Queen said: “Since winning the shootout it’s been my target to finalise my place on the grid in GB4, and I couldn’t be happier that’s it’s coming with Fortec.
“Having worked together on a few occasions since the shootout, I knew this was the team I wanted to be with for next year, and I’m happy that we’ve been able to finalise this so quickly. They won the title last year, and I am working hard to be able to replicate that level of success with the team in 2023.”
Fortec team manager Ollie Dutton said: “We’ve seen so much promise from Colin on the occasions he’s been in the car, we’re very pleased that he’s chosen to race with us in GB4 next year. He’s shown what he’s capable of in his short career so far, and we think we can help to push him on to the next level.”