The 1990 Motorcraft Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Formula Ford cars. [1] It was the 21st Australian national series for Formula Fords. [2]
The series was won by Russell Ingall driving a Van Diemen RF90. [2]
The series was contested over seven rounds with one race per round. [3]
Round [3] | Circuit [3] | Date [3] | Round winner [3] | Car [3] [1] [4] |
1 | Amaroo Park | 25 February | Russell Ingall | Van Diemen RF90 |
2 | Symmons Plains | 11 March | Paul Stokell | Reynard FF89 |
3 | Phillip Island | 25 March | Russell Ingall | Van Diemen RF90 |
4 | Winton | 8 April | Russell Ingall | Van Diemen RF90 |
5 | Lakeside | 6 May | Troy Dunstan | Van Diemen RF89 |
6 | Mallala | 10 June | Russell Ingall | Van Diemen RF90 |
7 | Oran Park | 15 July | Paul Stokell | Swift FB90 |
Series points were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten positions at each round. [5]
Position [4] | Driver [4] | No. [6] [3] | Car [4] [6] [3] [1] | Entrant [6] | Ama [4] | Sym [4] | Phi [4] | Win [4] | Lak [4] | Mal [4] | Ora [4] | Total [4] |
1 | Russell Ingall | 2 | Van Diemen RF90 | Coffey Ford | 20 | 12 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 20 | - | 107 |
2 | Paul Stokell | 11 |
Reynard FF88 Reynard FF89 Swift FB90 |
Phoenix Motorsport | 10 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 4 | - | 20 | 81 |
3 | Paul Morris | 5 | Van Diemen RF89 | Speedtech | 12 | 10 | - | 3 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 57 |
=4 | John Blanchard | 16 |
Swift FB89 Swift FB90 |
Palmair Racing | - | 15 | - | 15 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 50 |
=4 | Russell Becker | 10 | Reynard FF89 | Transtar Express | - | 8 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 50 |
6 | Troy Dunstan | 4 | Van Diemen RF89 | Speedtech | 6 | - | - | 8 | 20 | 15 | - | 49 |
7 | Ron Searle | 29 |
Reynard FF89 Reynard FF90 |
Transtar Express | 15 | 6 | 3 | - | 6 | 6 | 6 | 42 |
8 | Brett Peters | 6 |
Swift FB89 Swift FB90 |
Olympus Cameras | 8 | - | 12 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 41 |
9 | Michael Dutton | 9 | Van Diemen RF90 | Michael Dutton | 1 | - | - | 6 | - | 8 | 12 | 27 |
10 | John Vernon | 13 |
Swift FB89 Swift FB5 |
Sommerlad Fasterners Racing Team | 4 | - | 8 | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | 20 |
11 | Michael Mortimer | Swift | - | - | 10 | - | - | - | - | 10 | ||
12 | Michael Geoghegan | 15 | Van Diemen RF89 | Michael Geoghegan | 2 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | 8 |
=13 | Jamie McHugh | Van Diemen RF86 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | ||
=13 | Glen Zampatti | Reynard | Phoenix Motorsport | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | |
=13 | Peter Forster | 19 | Swift FB90 | Peter Forster | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 4 |
=13 | Andrew Reid | 92 | Van Diemen RF89 | Andrew Reid | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 4 |
=13 | David Ratcliff | 78 | Reynard FF88 | Phoenix Motorsport | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 |
18 | Sean Turnbull | Van Diemen RF86 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | ||
=19 | Tim Wood | Van Diemen | Phoenix Motorsport | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |
=19 | Geoff Full | Reynard FF88 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |