Former McLaren Autosport BRDC Award nominee Harrison Scott will compete in the 2015 Duo BRDC Formula 4 Autumn Trophy with Douglas Motorsport. The 19-year-old will join the Northamptonshire-based team for the eight race series that gets underway at Snetterton this weekend (November 7/8).
Essex-born Scott competed in both European and World-level karting before making his single-seater debut in the MSA British Formula Ford Championship in 2013. He competed in the series for two years, becoming Scholarship champion in his first season and finishing as runner-up in the main championship in both 2013 and 2014. His success that year, where he took 27 podiums from 30 races, saw him nominated for the prestigious McLaren Autosport BRDC Award.
For 2015, Scott competed in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championship for the AVF team and enjoyed another successful year by claiming eight rookie class wins and with it the 2015 Rookie Championship.
Douglas Motorsport, run by former McLaren Autosport BRDC finalist Wayne Douglas, has become an extremely successful junior race team, claiming the 2012 Ginetta Junior teams’ championship and winning the inaugural BRDC F4 Winter Championship in 2013 with Matthew Graham. The team ran the north east native to three wins in the eight race series and has claimed a number of victories in the main championship with Matt Bell and Diego Menchaca.
Harrison Scott said: "We have known Wayne for many years and so when the new F4 car was released and the opportunity to race in the Autumn Trophy series became available we both jumped at the chance of working together. It is going to be great; two weekends of intensive racing, in what shall probably be challenging British weather and in a car with more power than I had this season. I am very much looking forward to working with the Douglas Motorsport team and hopefully taking the Trophy title together."
Wayne Douglas, Team Principal of Douglas Motorsport, added: “It's great to have Harrison joining Douglas Motorsport. We have watched his impressive progress since he first started car racing and we hope to be running at the front with him from the off.”
The 2015 Duo BRDC Formula 4 Autumn Trophy will see the race debut of the new-for-2016 Tatuus-Cosworth car, which will provide the perfect stepping stone from FIA F4 and MSA Formula to European Formula 3 and GP3. After the first four races at Snetterton, the Autumn Trophy will conclude with a quartet of races on the Indy Circuit at Brands Hatch on November 14/15.
