Salisbury driver Ross Curnow had a successful drive in the Formula Renault BARC Championship at Snetterton on 9 August.

Following difficulties in finding sponsorship for a competitive seat in 2007, the Formula BMW race winner took an opportunity to manage Double M Racing’s Formula Renault programme. He’s therefore been focusing on race engineering this year but has been eager to get back behind the wheel.  ‘We’ve learnt a lot about the car but decided it would be useful for me to race the car myself a couple of times to get a feel for how competitive our set up is.’

After a shakedown drive at Oulton Park in May, the team used the Snetterton round for another outing for Ross. Friday practice went well and Saturday morning saw Ross qualify 3^rd fastest in a closely fought session. He then drove a sensible race amongst the championship leaders to finish in 3^rd place. For only his second outing in the car, this was an impressive drive.

Ross said afterwards: ‘We’ve had a good weekend. We’ve got some useful data on the car in different conditions and I’ve had a great race. I’m still looking for finance to fund the next step in my driving career but it’s nice to be on the podium again!’