Team win for motorsport engineering students at SERC

South Eastern Regional College (SERC) is celebrating a local motorsport win, in a vehicle driven by a lecturer and prepared and managed by the students.
By Julie-Ann Spence
Published 2nd Feb 2022, 12:15 BST
L-R SERC Motorsport Engineering Lecturer Stuart Parker, with Level 2 and Level 3 Motor Sport Engineering students Jessica Robinson, Joshua Parsons, James Boyd, Colin Johnston, Ross Hanlon, Conor Devlin, and Stephen Wishart, Lecturer and driver of the Formula Ford 1600 which recently secured the Championship title in Class 13 for Sprint carsL-R SERC Motorsport Engineering Lecturer Stuart Parker, with Level 2 and Level 3 Motor Sport Engineering students Jessica Robinson, Joshua Parsons, James Boyd, Colin Johnston, Ross Hanlon, Conor Devlin, and Stephen Wishart, Lecturer and driver of the Formula Ford 1600 which recently secured the Championship title in Class 13 for Sprint cars
L-R SERC Motorsport Engineering Lecturer Stuart Parker, with Level 2 and Level 3 Motor Sport Engineering students Jessica Robinson, Joshua Parsons, James Boyd, Colin Johnston, Ross Hanlon, Conor Devlin, and Stephen Wishart, Lecturer and driver of the Formula Ford 1600 which recently secured the Championship title in Class 13 for Sprint cars

Motorsport Engineering Lecturer Stuart Parker said, “The team from the Level 3 Motorsport Engineering course have been very busy working on the Formula Ford 1600 in which fellow lecturer Stephen Wishart recently competed in a sprint championship, run by the Association of Northern Ireland Car Clubs. A string of wins and strong finishes finally secured the championship title in class 13 for sprint cars. The race is contested over a series of events at Nutts Corner and Kirkistown Racing Circuit. The Motorsport Engineering first and second year students took responsibility for the car and driver before, during and after event so it really was a team effort and gave the students the opportunity to see the results of their work in situ.”

Jess Robinson, a first-year student, said: “It has been great fun learning how a race car works, then putting all that knowledge into practice and being part of a winning team.”

The students are working on Formula Ford re-preparation and new setup permutations for the 2022 season start.