29 October, 2007: Seventeen-year-old Garry Findlay is to make a bid for top honours in the British Formula Ford Championship in 2008. The Suffolk-based youngster, son of former single-seater racer Garry Snr, has bought a Mygale chassis from champion team Jamun Racing with a view to progressing his career.

Findlay endured a difficult season in the Ford-backed championship in '07 helping develop the works Spirit; car problems forced him to sit out much of the season, and also to miss the Formula Ford Festival.

His Scholar-powered SJ06 Mygale will be run by experienced Cambridgeshire-based Sceptre Racing, headed by Peter Newell.

"I have been impressed by the Mygale," said Garry, "and what the car did for Callum MacLeod and Linton Stuteley this year." MacLeod and his '07 Mygale claimed 14 race wins and the championship while Stuteley, at the wheel of a 2006 model, won once and made a further eight podium visits on his way to championship fourth.

Findlay started his track career in karts and made his British Formula Ford debut at 16 in the Scholarship class in 2006. He was the '06 winter series scholarship class winner.

The 25-race British Formula Ford Championship gets underway at Oulton Park next Easter and is once again the chief supporting event to the British Formula 3 International Series.

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