His focus this weekend will be on the Toyota 86 racing at Pukekohe, but former Te Puke High School student Michael Scott could be forgiven for having one eye on the future. By winning the 2015-16 New Zealand Formula Ford series, the 21-year-old mechanical engineering student secured a place on the grid of a one-race shootout in the US. As well as the single-seat Formula Ford championship, Scott last year finished second in his first season in the Toyota 86 one-make sports car series. "So we'd run in one car, run over to the other and jump in that - and away we'd go, it was intense. The Toyota 86 series is one of the supporting classes at the ITM Auckland SuperSprint.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 05, 2016 03:03 UTC