15 February, 2008: Danish driver Marco Sorensen has this week confirmed his entry into the British Formula Ford Championship, bringing to six the number of different nationalities to be represented on the 2008 grid.

Seventeen-year-old Sorensen will pilot a Van Diemen for the Suffolk-based Fluid Motorsport Developments team. Team boss Lindsay Allen believes he will be a force with which to be reckoned in the Ford-back series: "He took to a Duratec-powered Formula Ford like a duck to water in the Festival in October, finishing an impressive ninth. It was his first time in a Duratec, had never seen Brands Hatch before and was racing against drivers with at least a year's experience. It was an incredible performance."

Sorensen will be hoping to follow in the wheeltracks of his illustrious countrymen Jason Watt, who won British Formula Ford in 1994, Kristian Kolby, the '96 victor, and Nicolas Kiesa, 1999 champion. It's hoped that Sorensen will be the first of a new wave of racing Danes to invade the UK now that Denmark has adopted the UK-pioneered Duratec power unit for its domestic Formula Ford championship.

Sorensen is so far the only Scandinavian to have signed to contest the '08 British Formula Ford Championship. There are two Dutch drivers lining up in the shape of Rogier de Wit (JTR/Mygale) and Chris Maliepaard (Getem/Mygale); a brace of Brazilians - Victor Correa (Jamun/Mygale) and Francisco Weiller (Comtec); Frenchman Philippe Layac (JTR/Mygale); and Australians Tim Blanchard (Jamun/Mygale) and Glen Wood (KMR/Spectrum).

Leading the Brits into battle are 2007 championship fourth-place finisher Linton Stuteley in his Getem Racing Mygale and Jamun team-mates Wayne Boyd, the reigning Northern Ireland FF1600 Champion, and James Cole, winner of the Club Formula Ford North-West title in 2007. The 2002 champion, Westley Barber, will meanwhile return at the wheel of the new Comtec chassis.

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