Six months ago at Silverstone, Scott Malvern, Geoff Uhrhane and Jeroen Slaghekke shared the race victories in the opening rounds of the Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain on the Silverstone National circuit. This weekend, on Silverstone's Grand Prix track layout, the same trio of drivers shared the spoils in the concluding races of the 2011 season to give the championship a symmetrical send-off.All three of the Silverstone races offered barnstorming excitement and a great display of driving skills from the front-runners, with Uhrhane beating Slaghekke to victory on Saturday after Malvern's demise with mechanical problems, Champion Scott bouncing back on Sunday morning to take his 18th win of the British season, and Slaghekke securing victory in the grand finale on Sunday evening, and with it championship second.Round 22There's something about Silverstone for both Uhrhane and for Malvern - it's a lucky circuit for the former and a not-so-fortunate one for the latter, as proved in Saturday's race. For Australian Uhrhane made it back on to the top step of the podium while Malvern posted what was only his third retirement of the season, at the same track where he last faltered.It was a superb race throughout, with between five and seven cars vying for top spot for most of its duration and multiple lead changes every lap of the early stages - Formula Ford at its finest on a circuit which suits the cars perfectly.Slaghekke got away well from the pole to take an early lead but the Dutch driver had to give best to his Jamun team-mate Malvern before the lap's end. The second lap saw Uhrhane rise to the top through Abbey as Geoff, Scott and Jeroen charged three abreast through one of the circuit's toughest corners. Malvern got Uhrhane back, only for the Australian JTR pilot to nip back past for the lead down Malvern's inside through Luffield.Malvern returned the favour at Abbey next time through but had been pushed back to third by Uhrhane and Slaghekke by the fifth lap, his engine beginning to go off song. On lap six it expired and Scott was on the sidelines, joining Luke Williams, who had run off the track, in retirement.Slaghekke found himself pushed back to fourth by Dan de Zille and Antti Buri on lap seven, the Dutchman believing that he had been unfairly overtaken. "I'm a little disappointed," said Jeroen. "I got swarmed by about four people under a yellow flag. I would have defended into the chicane but there was a yellow flag, so I didn't. People are not supposed to overtake under yellows but they still did."Slaghekke's delay gave Uhrhane the opportunity he needed to pull a tiny gap, which the Aussie held to the line and his second British championship win of the season. "I like Silverstone," said a delighted Uhrhane, "it's a proper track, a Formula 1 circuit. It was a hell of a race, and I certainly had to work hard for the win. It's good to be back on the top step, winning again."Slaghekke made it past de Zille for third on the final lap and was then gifted second by Buri, the Finn running wide through Brooklands as he tried in vain to defend. De Zille took the opportunity to pass Buri also, to make it two JTR men on the podium. Stewards later judged de Zille to have passed under yellow warning flags, and he was excluded from the results.Buri was thus promoted to third ahead of yet another JTR car, this time in the hands of Tristan Mingay, with Australia's Nick McBride fifth and heading home his countryman Jack Le Brocq, who was making his championship debut for the Jamun team. The Cliff Dempsey Racing Ray of Neil Alberico was eighth and the only non-Mygale to make the top 10, finishing just behind Philippe Layac's Enigma/Rendez-Vous Racing Mygale, with Spike Goddard ninth and Geva's Steijn Schothorst completing the top 10. Max Marshall completed the JTR's team exceptional day with Scholarship class victory well ahead of Fluid Van Diemen driver Matt Rao.Round 23His Duratec-powered Mygale repaired for battle thanks to some late-night work by Jamun Racing, Scott Malvern repaid his mechanics' toil with a pole-to-chequered flag victory in the second Silverstone race.Malvern made an exceptional start to assume command from the outset as Geoff Uhrhane struggled to get his JTR car off the line on a damp track. Geoff's slowish getaway allowed Jeroen Slaghekke to nip through for second, from which position the Dutchman set about harrying his championship-winning team-mate for the lead.Jeroen's hopes of victory were curtailed on lap five by an error which saw Malvern's lead extended from 0.3s to 1.1s. "I went a bit wide coming out of the chicane, put my wheels on a damp patch, and that cost me a lot of time," said Slaghekke. "Scott did a great job and I wasn't able to catch back up with him."Malvern went on to claim victory by eight-tenths. It was his 18th win of the Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain season, and his 24th of the year as a whole including his separate EuroCup victories. He was delighted and grateful: "The Jamun boys worked late into the night to fit a borrowed engine, so all thanks to them and to Geva, who lent us the engine. I got great traction off the line, and the car was set up well for the conditions. I just had to guide it around."Once he had got going and disentangled himself from the clutches of Antti Buri, Uhrhane moved into a safe third. "It was definitely hard to start on the wet side of the track; it was a little hard to get off the line and I think that's where I lost the race," said Geoff. "I should have had the pace to keep with the front two and fight for the lead but I just couldn't quite bridge the gap after the first two laps."The scrap for fourth involved five cars at its height and boiled down in the closing laps to a duel between Buri and Dan de Zille, the Finn finally getting the upper hand with two laps remaining. De Zille was three-tenths behind at the line for sixth. Van Diemen man Matt Parry took seventh, leading home Philippe Layac, Jack Le Brocq and Luke Williams. Max Marshall was again the Scholarship victor. "It went really well apart from my start which was pretty awful. Once my tyres came up to temperature the car was good and I made some good progress," said Max.Round 24The Formula Fordsters saved their best for last - delivering a superb final round in the gathering gloom at the end of Silverstone's racing weekend. Slaghekke was the first man to try his luck in front, rocketing off the line to seize the advantage from poleman Uhrhane into Copse Corner. By Maggotts, however, it was Uhrhane in charge and the Aussie went on to pull a 1.2s lead by the end of the 3.7-mile lap.Malvern was pushed back to sixth on the opening lap and it took the champion two laps to fight his way back to third, from which position he had started. He soon closed down Slaghekke's advantage but neither looked to have much hope of catching Uhrhane until a small error from Geoff on lap five allowed them to reacquaint themselves with the back of his Mygale.The final three laps were a frenzy of pass and counter-pass, attacks and repulsions as the season's only race winners battled to add to their tally. Slaghekke nosed ahead at Club Corner on the penultimate tour and he and Uhrhane ran pretty much side by side all the way to Luffield, where Geoff locked up, slid wide and handed the advantage to his rival.Last time down the Hangar straight Uhrhane tried valiantly to repass but had to give best to Slaghekke, and also defend his second place from the attentions of Malvern, who at one stage looked set to go past both his rivals. Slaghekke crossed the line two-tenths ahead of Uhrhane to record his third win of the season and, more importantly, to secure second in the championship. "It's such a relief," said Jeroen. "It was a very tense race. We dropped Scott but he was so quick that he was soon on our tails again. Geoffrey fought very hard, and very fairly, and I won in the end, so I'm very happy."The man Slaghekke pipped for championship second by all of three points was his team-mate Nick McBride, who finished the race sixth, behind de Zille and Buri, and 5s ahead of his visiting countryman Jack Le Brocq. Neil Alberico claimed eighth for Ray and the Cliff Dempsey Racing team, with Tristan Mingay and Philippe Layac ninth and 10th respectively.The Scholarship class honours went to Fluid Motorsport's Matt Rao after his class rival, JTR's Max Marshall, fell by the wayside on the final lap.

FORMULA FORD CHAMPION MALVERN GUNS FOR TOP AWARD9 OCTOBER 2011: Newly crowned Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Champion Scott Malvern has been selected for the second year running as a finalist in the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award, the richest junior-driver prize in UK motorsport.Jamun driver Malvern, 22, is one of six being pitched against one another to decide the most promising racing talent in the country. At stake is a £100,000 prize and a McLaren F1 test. The judges, led by BRDC president Derek Warwick, will assess the half-dozen hopefuls at a Silverstone test day in November.Ex-Formula Ford racer Emil Bernstorff is one of Malvern's rivals; like Malvern, Bernstorff raced for Jamun, taking seventh place in the championship in 2010."I'm delighted," said Scott. "This vindicates what was seen by many to be a risky strategy in returning to Formula Ford this season, having had such a brilliant 2010. If I hadn't dominated this category in my second season I would have been thought of as a failure."I've done the job I set out to do. It was in the back of my mind that I could earn a second crack at the award but I never take anything for granted. A big thank you to the judges for selecting me and a massive thank you to the Jamun Racing team and all of my supporters for helping to get me here. I am really looking forward to the competition and intend to enjoy every second of it."The other finalists are Alex Lynn, Oliver Rowland, Tom Blomqvist and Dino Zamparelli. The McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner will be announced in December.

Provisional resultsDunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great BritainRound 22 (of 24)Silverstone GP 8/10/119 laps / 32.94 miles1 Geoff Uhrhane AUS JTR Mygale 19m 39.071s / 100.60mph2 Jeroen Slaghekke NED Jamun Mygale +0.589s3 Antti Buri FIN LMS-Geva Mygale +1.722s4 Tristan Mingay GBR/Hailsham JTR Mygale +2.306s5 Nick McBride AUS Jamun Mygale +2.569s6 Jack Le Brocq AUS Jamun Mygale +7.006sScholarship Class: Max Marshall GBR/Welford JTR Mygale +20.436sFastest lap: Slaghekke 2m 08.182s / 102.77mph Est RecRound 23 / 9/10/118 laps / 29.28 miles1 Scott Malvern GBR/Ilford Jamun Mygale 17m 53.149s / 98.24mph2 Slaghekke +0.846s3 Uhrhane +4.492s4 McBride +6.160s5 Buri +10.375s6 Dan de Zille JEY JTR Mygale +10.611sScholarship Class: Marshall +48.342sFastest lap: Slaghekke 2m 11.333s / 100.35mphRound 249 laps / 32.94 miles1 Slaghekke 19m 40.910s / 100.41mph2 Uhrhane +0.218s3 Malvern +0.256s4 de Zille +1.372s5 Buri +21.43s6 McBride +2.562sScholarship Class: Matt Rao GBR/Levignac Fluid Van Diemen +1m 39.450sFastest lap: Malvern 2m 09.397s / 101.84mphProvisional final championship standings1 Malvern 614 points; 2 Slaghekke 510; 3 McBride 507; 4 Buri 480; 5 Uhrhane 391; 6 de Zille 383 etcScholarship class 1 Cavan Corcoran 495; 2 Rao 243; 3 Marshall 149 etc