Ellinas Double Formula Ford UK Success!
Tio Ellinas delivered a thoroughly dominant performance at Rockingham in Northamptonshire today (Saturday) to not only bag his first Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain victory, but also claim pole position, fastest race lap and a new lap record. The 18 year old Cypriot, who won the Grand Prix Shootout scholarship last year to earn this season’s drive with the JTR squad, laid down a strong marker during qualifying to take the round 11 pole position by 0.146 seconds from Scott Pye.
Smoking his tyres at the start, Ellinas just managed to hold the lead through the banked Turn One from Pye, and that was the closest anyone got to challenging the Mygale driver. Building a comfortable lead over the course of the 14 laps, Ellinas won by almost four seconds to seal a memorable maiden victory. After the race he said: I’m really happy to have won. I was trying to do every lap like a qualifying lap to have a good gap. I pushed to the limit and managed to get a good advantage so I could focus ahead instead of having to look in my mirrors. It’s been a perfect weekend so far, hopefully we can do the same tomorrow…
