Team AKA worked wonders after the pre-Friday test, after Jon had an unfortunate ‘off’ during the day, as he explored the limits of his new Formula Renault single-seater.



Jon was making his debut for the Formula Renault Team AKA outfit, on the back of his stunning race win at Silverstone during his maiden Formula Ford outing.

“We had to tank tape most of the car to get him out in the final minutes of qualifying”, Lancaster Snr said, “so even though he had lost a lot of track time with the shunt, we were very pleased when he managed to qualify in 11th place for both races”.

With two races of the Winter Series ahead, the programme allowed for one race on the Saturday and the second on Sunday. Jon made a good start and was making solid progress in race one, fighting his way up to 7th place, when one of his opponents failed to see him, when he tried to out-brake him going into Druids. The contact from this incident resulted in a spin for Jon, including a bent wishbone on his front suspension, although at least Jon was able to re-start and finish the race.



Again on grid 11 for race two on Sunday Jon was ready for business. “He made a good start”, Lancaster Snr commented, “and made forward progress, reaching a creditable 8th position. He was also the first of the Team AKA cars home and we were really pleased with the result”. Bearing in mind that the car had the wrong rear springs for the conditions, which gave Jon massive over-steer, the young racer from Leeds left the Kent circuit with his sights set firmly on the next two races at Croft, near Darlington this coming Saturday.

In the meantime Jon is under-going an intensive training course in Oslo, Norway, ready for his return to the frenetic Formula Renault action in a few days time, when Team AKA take to the Croft circuit for the next track test on Thursday.