Round 12 will see the Renault UK backed single-seater championship make its
second visit of the year to the picturesque Cheshire venue, the previous meeting
in mid-June seeing Manchester racer Mark Gillibrand produce an excellent drive
to eighth position, while British-born Bahraini Menasheh Idafar finished a
highly creditable 12th in class.
Mark has assumed the status as the team’s quickest driver over the course
of the year, the 24-year-old starting his maiden season of single-seater racing
strongly by finishing just three 10ths of a second shy of the top 10 during
round one at Leicestershire’s Donington Park.
Achieving his first points-scoring result at Croft, North Yorkshire, during
the second race meeting of the season with ninth place, Mark backed it up with
another top 10 in the second of the weekend’s encounters and also raced to a
10th place finish at Snetterton, Norfolk, during round eight.
Menasheh, meanwhile, impressed at Donington Park on his Formula Renault
BARC debut with 15th position and has been close to the top 10 on several
occasions. The first visit to Oulton Park, however, did prove to be the
16-year-old’s most successful showing and so hopes remain high of a potential
maiden top 10 next weekend.
“Oulton Park was good to us when we visited earlier in the year so we’re
hoping to end the season strongly with another good showing next Saturday”, said
Russell Racing boss Tim Russell, “Mark and Menasheh both have an opportunity to
do well, they’ve experienced the circuit in their Formula Renaults now, so we’re
looking forward to it.”
The 12th and final round of the 2007 Formula Renault BARC Championship will
take place at Cheshire’s Oulton Park Island Circuit on Saturday, 29th
September.
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