Australian Formula Ford Championship
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Oct 16, 2026
Darren SmithHOST
The TA2 Muscle Car Series saw Alice Buckley dominate Saturday with two race victories before Ben Gullison fought back on Sunday to win both races and secure the overall round honors.
Darren SmithHOST
In the Australian Formula Ford Championship, Seth Burkaert enjoyed a perfect weekend, claiming four wins from four races to strengthen his championship campaign.
Darren SmithHOST
And a little edit on that one was that he actually won the series at Phillip Island on the weekend.
Darren SmithHOST
Dylan Thomas captured the 2026 Legend Cars Australia Series with Reuben Dann chasing Thomas all year, along with Dean O'Brien, who came home third for the year.
Aaron NoonanHOST
Yeah
Garth TanderGUEST
... for the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 1997, which is-
Aaron NoonanHOST
Yeah
Garth TanderGUEST
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Garth TanderGUEST
Yeah.
Garth TanderGUEST
Um, yeah, I, it was, looking back at it, it was, it was a bit wild.
Garth TanderGUEST
But, um, so every second year used to be a round of the Australian Formula Ford Championship in WA, but this was an off year.
Garth TanderGUEST
So this wasn't a round of the Australian Formula Ford Championship, but it was very much the local Formula Ford support category to-
Garth TanderGUEST
Yeah, it was.
Garth TanderGUEST
Um, so at the end of 97, once we'd won the formula for the Australian formula Ford championship, um, had no budget left to go to the next logical step, which back then was former Holden, the bigger, faster wings and slicks open wheeler category.
Garth TanderGUEST
So I think the budget to do Formula Holden back then was 200, 250 grand, which is, you know, today's money, not a lot of money, but back then that was a huge amount of money.
Garth TanderGUEST
Um, so I didn't have the budget for that.
Aaron NoonanHOST
Rather than just go, yeah, it's a car, I'll drive it, let's go.
Aaron NoonanHOST
Because it's like,
Garth TanderGUEST
well, maybe that will erase a lot of the work we did winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship by going and looking...
Garth TanderGUEST
Doing a good job in the Toyota, but the Toyota is a car is not capable of running with a factory Audi or a factory BMW or whatever.
James StewartHOST
But like all good motorsport stories, it's never the straight that gets you, it's always the corners.
James StewartHOST
And to put Jamie's career in perspective, he started racing go-karts at just eight years old, won the Australian Formula Ford Championship at 19.
James StewartHOST
In 2003, he made it into Gary Rogers' Supercar team at 20, and then within months was dropped, or maybe sacked, from the team.
Jamie WhincupGUEST
[laughs]
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Jamie WhincupGUEST
Yeah, roughly.
James StewartHOST
Then you go into Formula Ford.
James StewartHOST
You actually win the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2002.
Jamie WhincupGUEST
Yeah.
Former LegendHOST
Coral Taylor claimed top honors for the second heat, and they finished the event in second place in the championship, which is gonna go down to the last round.
Former LegendHOST
And speaking of championships, congratulations to Seth Burkhardt, who won the Australian Formula Ford Championship at Phillip Island.
Former LegendHOST
Mainly because Aviel didn't get to all the rounds.
Former LegendHOST
Otherwise, you probably would've wrapped that up.
Garth TanderGUEST
Yeah.
Garth TanderGUEST
Look, the year I did the Australian Formula Ford Championship was 1997, which is, was Brock's farewell tour, if you like.
Garth TanderGUEST
So all the races we went to that year, and I was in a Formula Ford paddock, was out, out the back in the, in the boondocks.
Garth TanderGUEST
But it was bigger than Ben-Hur because everyone wanted a piece of Brock.
Aaron NoonanHOST
Moff, who did grab your eye in Castrol Performers of the Week across the weekend in race?
James MoffatHOST
Well, my, my, uh, Castrol Performer of the Week, Noons, similar to your theme with the Super Series up there at Winton, but, uh, this is Australian Formula Ford Championship leader, Seth Burkaerts.
James MoffatHOST
He got the broom out on the weekend and won all four races, grabbed the two pole positions that were on offer, and leads the championship going into the final round by 53 points.
James MoffatHOST
So he's in a great position to add his name to the honor roll of all the people before him that have won the Australian Formula Ford Championship.
Aaron NoonanHOST
And that's a serious list of people.
Aaron NoonanHOST
It's like a who's who of Australian motor racing who've won that title, whether it was the Driver to Europe series, the Formula Ford Championship, Formula Ford Series.