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FormulaFord is a single seater racing car formula that started in 1967 usinga sixteen hundred cc Cortina engine in the back of a space frame,open wheel chassis with a fibreglass body. The first Formula Ford carever was based on a Lotus Formula Junior. By this time the moresophisticated formulae were using alloy monocoques which wereexpensive, fragile in the event of an accident and often unrepairableat least economically.Thesteel space frame of a Formula Ford was still light, but very strong,relatively cheap to manufacture and it could be cut, welded, evenstraightened in the event of a 'shunt'. The heyday of Formula Fordwas actually a rather long period, primarily all of the nineteenseventies and eighties, although it remained very healthy in thenineties and continues today. There were spin offs, many of them, toomany really which diluted Formula Ford itself for a while, FormulaFord 2000, Sports 2000, Formula First and Formula Forward, but noneenjoyed the success, or attracted as much affection from race goersand drivers as the original Formula Ford sixteen hundred formula.Thousandsof drivers around the world cut their racing teeth in Formula Fordsin the decades mentioned, when the engine in use was the Ford Kentengine, not so easy to get hold of now, but as common as muck then.Early Formula Fords generally had front mounted radiators andoutboard suspension, but because of the popularity of the formula andthe relative simplicity of construction the number of racing carconstructors ballooned. Joining Lotus were Merlyn, Royale, VanDiemen, Reynard, Swift, Elden, Hawke, Lola, Ray, Titan, Tiga andmore. Some just made Formula Fords, whilst others like Lola wereinvolved in numerous formulae right up to and including WorldChampionship Sportscars, Indy cars, Formula 5000 and Formula 1.Motorsporthas always been intensely competitive and so, with all thesemanufacturers competing to sell their chassis the development wasrapid and mirrored developments in more senior formulas. As anillustration look at the Formula 1 cars of nineteen eighty three,such as the John Player Special Lotus where the driver appears to bewell forward in the car and then look at the Van Diemen RF84. All VanDiemens' model numbers reflected the year of the particular model.Soonthere were side mounted radiators, inboard suspension, bodywork thatsmoothed the airflow around the engine and gearbox, but some thingsremained the same. Everyone raced with the Kent engine in thosedecades and although the Zetec engine and latterly the Duratec havetaken over the formula is a shadow of its former self. It was sosuccessful in the seventies and eighties for a number of reasons,firstly it was affordable, secondly it was exciting, this was due tonarrow control tyres and a lack of aerodynamic devices, the carscould and did run close together, slipstream and slide. The varietyof manufacturers added to spectator interest and you really could seenew stars in the making.In1972 the inaugural, end of season Formula Ford Festival was held atSnetterton in Norfolk, it would move to Brands Hatch from 1975 and itevolved into a World Cup event for Formula Ford drivers around theworld. It still runs today and even in the nineteen nineties wasattracting hundreds of entries from around the globe, with supportingraces for other Ford formulae and historic Formula Fords.Winnersof the festival include Johnny Herbert, Eddie Irvine and morerecently Mark Webber, although some fourteen winners have gone on toreach Formula 1 and many who came close to winning the Festival suchas David Coulthard went on to the pinnacle of the sport. It'spossible that the Ford Motor Company took theirposition as the numberone in grass roots motorsport for granted, or perhaps they thoughttheir position unassailable, but other companies wanted in on theaction, prompting Formula Renault, Formula Vauxhall Lotus (Opel inother markets), Formula Palmer Audi and others.In1981, when Formula Ford was at its height the young Ayrton Da Silva,who later changed his name to Senna moved to England and won both themajor British Formula Ford championships in that year. Unfortunatelyhe returned to Brazil for family reasons prior to the Formula FordFestival. Formula Ford has been pivotal in the development of modernmotorsport and has brought enjoyment to millions. To share theexperiences of one privateer Formula Ford driver read the book 'OfLand, Sea And Sky'. www.oflandseaandsky.com