15 May, 2008: The 2008 British Formula Ford Championship reaches its half-way mark at Rockingham next weekend with Ulster teenager Wayne Boyd riding high in the points standings and with no serious rival to his dominance in sight.

Boyd, 17 and from Templepatrick, has won nine of the 11 races so far in his Jamun Racing-prepared Mygale SJ08 and few would bet against his taking further wins at the motor speedway in Northamptonshire, the venue for rounds 12, 13 and 14 of the Ford-backed series.

One man out to try to get as close as he can is Adrian Campfield, a star of recent races who scored his maiden podium, and the first of the season for the Kevin Mills Racing team, last time out. He is rapidly getting to grips with the Australian-built Spectrum: "We've made a lot of changes to the car and have some new development parts which should make a big difference to us at Rockingham," said 18-year-old Adrian. "Really I am just now getting used to the car and the team is learning about it all the time. It's a good car, a great team and there is plenty more to come from us…"

Campfield and his regular team-mate, Aussie Glen Wood, have been joined at KMR by young Welsh driver Alex Jones, who is hoping that a switch to Spectrum will boost his hopes in the Scholarship Cup.

Only two other drivers have won races this season: Boyd's Jamun team-mate, Australian Champion Tim Blanchard, who took the third round, at Oulton Park, when Wayne slithered out of the lead, and Dutch driver Chris Maliepaard, who profited from Boyd's post-race technical exclusion from the results of round nine. Blanchard, Maliepaard and Chris's Mygale-driving Getem Racing team-mate Linton Stuteley are sure to be near the front of the action next weekend.

Alas Boyd's chief rival at Brands Hatch earlier this month, Westley Barber, has elected to sit out the rest of the season. The 2002 champion, having helped the Comtec team develop its new chassis, is handing over what is now a potential race winner to another, as yet unnamed, driver. Jamie Jardine and young Brazilian Francisco Weiler will continue to fly the Comtec flag.

Rockingham is home circuit for Bedford-based Joe Tandy Racing, and the JTR trio of young Brit Matt Hamilton, fast Frenchman Philippe Layac and flying Dutchman Rogier de Wit will be hoping to put on a strong showing, as will the other Jamun team drivers, Brazilian Victor Correa and James Cole, both of whom are steadily improving their pace.

There should be a strong Van Diemen challenge also in the shape of the two semi-works Fluid Motorsport cars of Scotsman David Brown and Dane Marco Sorensen, plus the 4D Motorsport machine of last year's Scholarship Champion, Matt Dobson Dutch team Vuik Racing will be joining the field at Rockingham with Mygales for Henk Vuik Jr and Rogier Jongejans.

There will as always be a battle royal in the Scholarship class, which has seen four different winners already this season in Jones, Mygale driver Garry Findlay - who leads on points - Van Diemen man Callum Holland and impressive Ray racer Chrissy Palmer. They will be joined on the grid by three further Scholars, Ray man Peter Daglish, Spirit driver Felix Scott and Mygale pilot Daniel Walker, son of truck racing champ Richard.

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