Pro Class Driver - Duncan Tappy
Who is Duncan?
Profession – Driver
Age – 24
Location - Surrey
Duncan Tappy is a star at the critical point in his career when he is moving from having potential to being a recognised force in the motorsport world. This season Duncan has shown his versatility with drives in the Le Mans Series, Porsche Carrera Cup as A1 Team GBR rookie driver and Time Attack. He is the reigning Formula Renault UK Championship, the series that Lewis Hamilton won in 2003. Like Hamilton Duncan won the coveted British Club Driver of the Year at Autosport Awards and was also a finalist for the prestigious McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. He has also been names as a BRDC Superstar.
2005 was Duncan’s first full season in car racing with a remarkable thirteen consecutive race wins in Formula Ford. Not only did he take the championship by storm, he dominated the prestigious Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch where he faced stiff competition from international Formula Ford rivals.
The next step for Duncan was to progress to a ‘slicks and wings’ car for 2006 and he chose Formula Renault UK. He spent his first season with his old Formula Ford team – Jamun Racing – learning the car and the engineering aspects that make it such a competitive series. Duncan became a British Racing Driver Club ‘Rising Star’ in the summer of 2006.
2007 saw Duncan move to Fortec Motorsport where Duncan wasted no time in making an impression. During the Formula Renault UK season he made 16 podium appearances including nine wins from a total of 20 races. He also competed abroad in two events taking a podium in races in the Northern European Cup and the French Formula Renault Championship.
The variety continues and to date in 2008 Duncan has driven in two A1 events as rookie driver for the British team, the Porsche Carrera Cup, Time Attack and in the Le Mans Series when he drove the Rollcentre Pescarolo in the LMP1 class at Monza.
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