The 2018 Investchem Formula 1600 championship, which paves its champion’s Road to Indy, heads to the classic East London Grand Prix Circuit for its fourth round on Workers Saturday 16 June with a tight championship tussle developing at the head of this year’s title race.

Hunter McElrea dominated Round Three of the Australian Formula Ford Championship at Wakefield Park. The 18-year-old from the Gold Coast claimed pole position and three race wins to reclaim the championship lead and enhance his hopes of earning an invitation to the Mazda Road to Indy USF2000 $200k Scholarship Shootout to be held later this year in the United States.

Series leader Niall Murray, first-time winner Matt Round-Garrido and local driver Neil Maclennan shared the spoils as Knockhill played host to the second round of the hotly contested Avon Tyres National FF1600 Championship.

The third and fourth rounds of the SMRC Scottish Formula Ford Championship took place in May at Knockhill Circuit in Fife, albeit with a slight twist. For the first time in several years, the track was run in an anti-clockwise direction, presenting a new challenge for drivers with a downhill run to the first corner, a second-gear hairpin.

Ross Martin recently won the opening two rounds of the Scottish Formula Ford Championship at Knockhill Circuit during the Jim Clark Memorial meeting, paying tribute to the great Formula 1 champion and Indianapolis 500 winner who died 50 years ago.