| Former Mini Se7en front runner Joe Tandy was tragically killed in a road accident on Wednesday. Joe, along with brother Nick, raced in Mini Se7en’s before moving to single seaters, winning the 2005 Formula Palmer Audi Championship in his first year.
He then turned his attentions to team management, setting up Joe Tandy Racing to run brother Nick in Formula Ford, who promptly won on the teams debut at Thruxton in 2006. In 2008 JTR progressed to British F3, capturing podium finishes in the world’s most competitive Formula 3 Championship and in 2009 JTR have already become regular front runners, with Nick smashing the F3 lap record on the full Silverstone GP circuit at the start of May.
Nick Cooke, Chairman of the Mini 7 Racing Club said: “Joe raced with the Mini Se7en Challenge from 2001 to 2004 and very early on became a force to be reckoned with, both on and off the track. What was very much in evidence from the beginning was Joe’s excellent racing and engineering talents and his dogged determination to succeed. This certainly stood him in good stead when he moved to single seaters in 2005, winning the Formula Palmer Audi title and when running his team Joe Tandy Racing in Formula Ford and British F3. On behalf of the Mini 7 Racing Club I would like to offer his brother Nick, Joe’s fiancée Sophie and the entire Tandy family our sincerest sympathies at this time.” |
