The Australian Formula Ford Championship is a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Formula Ford racing cars. It has been held annually since 1970, originally as a national series, and later as the 'Driver-to-Europe' series. The series was upgraded to Australian Championship status in 1993 and has been known officially as the Australian Formula Ford Championship since that year. The series moved from the first-generation Kent engine to the third-generation Mazda-sourced Ford Duratec engine in 2006.
The national series is renowned for producing future champions in other categories with 23 out of 28 current V8 Supercar drivers having had a background in national, state or New Zealand Formula Ford Championships as well as most Australian international open-wheeler drivers.
Formula Ford championships are also held in five Australian states: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. In the majority these championship continue to utilise the first-generation Kent engine.
Read more about Australian Formula Ford Championship: History, State Championships
Famous quotes containing the words australian, formula and/or ford:
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—which is: Try to please everybody.”
—Herbert B. Swope (1882–1958)
“Government ... thought [it] could transform the country through massive national programs, but often the programs did not work. Too often they only made things worse. In our rush to accomplish great deeds quickly, we trampled on sound principles of restraint and endangered the rights of individuals.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)