Jamie Stanley

Jamie Stanley took the Fox Motorsport Elise to second place in the final round of the Elise Trophy at Brands Hatch. In a change to the usual sprint format this race would see all the drivers taking on the challenge of a 100 minutes race with some drivers sharing cars and others doing the whole event solo. Each team would still need to make the one mandatory pitstop. 

Stanley endured a difficult qualifying session with changeable conditions and a very busy track finding space to get a qualifying lap was always going to be difficult and come the sessions end would see Stanley start from 4^th place.

At the start the track was still very wet from the earlier down pour and Stanley wasted little time and moved into second place by the time the field emerged from druids. The lead pair of Scott Cruikshank and Stanley pulled away from the chasing pack and were locked together for several laps before a mistake from Cruikshank allowed Stanley through.

At the mid way point Stanley led from Cruikshank by 7 seconds and pitted for the mandatory six minute stop. As Stanley rejoined and the rest of the pitstops began to unfold it was clear that victory was out of reach as the lead car of Mark Gooday and Mark Speller had pitted under the earlier safety car period and now led Stanley by three laps.

“that was fantastic scott pushed me really hard at the start and was great racing with him its just s shame we didn’t quite get the pit stop right or we could of been fighting for the win” said Stanley

This marked Stanley’s most successful season to date taking the foxint.com elise to 13 podiums 10 wins from 15 starts. Stanley now turns his attention to trying to secure a drive in the British GT Championship.

“we are talking to a number of teams about next season and are hoping to be able to confirm our plans very soon. Id like to thank all my sponsors for there support this season as without them this wouldn’t of been possible and hopefully next year will be even bigger and better for them too” added Stanley