Port Erin’s Nick Ellis will spend the forthcoming weeks weighing up the options concerning the next stage of his short motor racing career.
The 17-year-old made his first foray into the world of endurance racing by contesting a Fun Cup race at Donington Park over the weekend.
Ellis shared a purpose-built Fun Cup car that uses the “silhouette” of a Volkswagen Beetle with Gracie Mitchell plus John Perrot and was classified 13th when the race ended prematurely due to torrential rain.
Nick and His Racing Career
Earlier this month at Donington, the GB4 series “rookie” creditably netted two eighth-place finishes in very difficult and challenging weather and track conditions.
Qualifying was staged on a drying track with Ellis setting the 10th fastest times for the opening two races.
Race 1 began in light rain but with the 15-car field on “slick”, dry-weather tyres.
Nick challenged for sixth in the first-half of the race, coming home a very impressive eighth in difficult, slippery conditions on his GB4 race debut.
The entire grid was on wet tyres for the 18mins Race 2 and although Ellis stalled on the grid at the green light, dropping to the back of the field, he recovered to 13th.
In the final, “reverse” grid race Ellis started from third place on a completely dry track and finished eighth.
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