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Amanda fights for first at Silverstone

Amanda Whitaker had a terrific battle for honours in Historic Formula Ford at Silverstone this weekend. Racing on the International circuit in her Elden Mk8, she showed her pace by qualifying 3rd in a 33 car grid behind Westie Mitchell and young hotshoe current British Formula Ford Champion Callum Macleod who was making a guest appearance in the championship.

Amanda made a good start to slot in behind Mitchell, while Macleod bogged down at the start & slipped back to 4th. She looked to pass Mitchell on the run down to Abbey on the opening lap, but was herself demoted to 3rd by the recovering Macleod.

Macleod took the lead from Mitchell at Brooklands and pulled out a small gap and Amanda looked for a way past Mitchell twice on consecutive laps on the run down to Abbey hairpin before finally making it stick at Copse.

She maintained 2nd before Macleod made an error, half spinning at Becketts and handing the lead to Amanda. Amanda held this for a couple of laps but Macleod retook the lead under braking for Becketts and Amanda had no answer as she was struggling to slow her car down: "The left rear hub was coming loose which made the handling difficult and also made the brake pedal inconsistent - virtually to the floor on occasion." she said.

Despite the problem, she held a comfortable 2nd place but towards the end of the race, her engine started to falter and Mitchell came back past on the start finish straight. However, Amanda soldiered on and continued to put pressure on Mitchell. With two laps to go, he spun at Abbey and she retook 2nd place which she held to the flag with Macleod taking the win and Mitchell 3rd.

"That was a good hard race, but I know I could have gone quicker" said Amanda. "It was a carburettor problem that was causing the engine to cut out at top revs - that & the hub problem were costing me loads of time. When it was spluttering I was just thinking "C'mon,C'mon!" but thankfully it kept going...then as I crossed the finish line it cut out all together - I was lucky to finish actually".

She also finished the day with a class win and 6th overall in the Classic Racing cars event, pulling out a gap over 50 seconds ahead of Andrew Garside in the same class also in an Elden Mk 8.

She looks forward to Snetterton double header race in 3 weeks time.

Trackside photo's courtesy of Edward Flann.


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