MALVERN MK II
PREPARES FOR FORMULA FORD
- Younger brother
Jon hopes to follow Scott's lead
- Duratec Formula
Ford campaign planned for 2012
5 December, 2011
- Jon Malvern, 19-year-old younger brother of 2011 Dunlop MSA
Formula Ford Champion Scott, is hoping to follow in his successful
sibling's wheeltracks next season and make a name for himself in
motorsport.
Jon enjoyed his
first proper taste of a single-seater at the Formula Ford Sampler
Day at Silverstone on Friday, going behind the wheel of a Duratec-powered
Ray chassis and also Scott's championship-winning Jamun Racing
Mygale.
"I have been
watching Scott from the sidelines for three years now," said
Jon, a business student at Bournemouth University, "so when
this opportunity presented itself I leapt at it. I would love to
do Formula Ford and see how competitive I can be."
Jon has schoolboy
karting experience but gave up the sport when he grew too large to
be competitive. "I was very overweight and had to stop.
Watching Scott go racing successfully was the spur I needed to get
a grip and lose the weight," added Jon, whose personal
fitness regime was so successful that he now trains racing
drivers, Scott included, to get fit.
The boys' father,
Dominic, hopes to put together a deal to run Jon in a Duratec
Formula Ford next season: "With Scott's career taking off I
have the time now to focus on Jon's ambitions. Hopefully we can
put together a budget which will allow him to race an older car
next season as an introduction to single-seaters, and we'll see
where we go from there."
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