Formula Ford – The Most Successful Junior Formula Ever
Formula Ford is a single seater racing car formula that started in 1967 using a sixteen hundred cc
Cortina engine in the back of a space frame, open wheel chassis with a fibreglass body.
The first...
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Formula Ford – The Most Successful Junior Formula Ever
Formula Ford is a single seater racing car formula that started in 1967 using a sixteen hundred cc
Cortina engine in the back of a space frame, open wheel chassis with a fibreglass body.
The first
Formula Ford car ever was based on a Lotus Formula Junior.
By this time the more sophisticated
formulae were using alloy monocoques which were expensive, fragile in the event of an accident
and often unrepairable at least economically.
The steel space frame of a Formula Ford was still light, but very strong, relatively cheap to
manufacture and it could be cut, welded, even straightened in the event of a shunt .
The heyday of
Formula Ford was actually a rather long period, primarily all of the nineteen seventies and eighties,
although it remained very healthy in the nineties and continues today.
There were spin offs, many of
them, too many really which diluted Formula Ford itself for a while, Formula Ford 2000, Sports
2000, Formula F
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