Rookie racer Sandy Mitchell delivered a sensational winning double to jump start his single-seater career on the nation’s fastest circuit.
The Angus 15-year-old produced a Thruxton masterclass in the MSA Formula championship, heading home with two wins, a second place and a lap record in the bag after demolishing the opposition at almost 135mph.
And last year’s British Junior Max karting champion even managed to eclipse tin-top champion Gordon Shedden on the weekend British Touring Car Championship bill.
The Dundee High School pupil is one of the youngest racers in the new series which, for the first time in the UK, allows 15-year-olds to race FIA-approved Ford EcoBoost-engined single-seaters.
Having been unlucky not to convert strong pace in the championship’s opening two rounds at Brands Hatch and Donington into podium places, Arden Motorsport driver Sandy banished his bad luck in style with a pole-sitter qualifying performance for the opening race of the weekend, which he duly converted into his maiden MSA Formula win.
He then charged through the pack to snnatch a last-lap second place in the middle race, before producing a dominant drive from pole position to leave the opposition far behind in the weekend’s final televised race.
Sandy’s scintillating weekend has catapulted him to fifth in the overall MSA Formula championship standings and second in the rookie cup chase ahead of the next round at Oulton Park in Cheshire next month.
Sandy, who has also written himself into the Arden Motorsport history books as the first single-seater winner from the team’s Young Racing Driver Academy, said: “That was an awesome weekend of racing, what a feeling taking my first two wins in cars.
“I have had the pace during testing and it is great to reward the TRS Arden team with these wins after the huge amount of work that they have put in.”