There is no shortage of people in the Champ Car paddock this weekend with memories source: cart.com Fond and otherwise of Brands Hatch. Roberto Moreno won the Formula Ford Festival here, Jimmy Vasser got punted off at Druids Hill hairpin on the first lap of his qualifying heat for the 1991 Formula Ford festival; Paul Tracy raced Formula Ford 2000s here, Adrian Fernandez raced Formula Ford 1600s, Mario Haberfeld, Darren Manning, Joel Camathias' great uncle Florian lost his life here while racing motorcycle sidecars in the 1950s. Few have fonder, or more lasting memories of the Brands Hatch circuit than Formula Ford Festival winner/British Formula 3 champion/Grand Prix/Champ Car driver turned television commentator and race driving school owner Derek Daly. Many of the pivotal moments in Daly's racing career took place on the 1.2 mile Indy and 2.65 mile Grand Prix circuits in the rolling Kent countryside. "Over the years, when people ask me what my favorite race tracks have been I always say Brands Hatch and the old Osterreichring," he says. "Brands Hatch is the type of circuit that makes unusual demands on a racing driver but it's also the kind of track that you imagined racing on when you dreamed of being a race driver: fast corners, sweeping, unusual corners. "And those types of tracks have gone. The modern era race track is smooth, with basic, constant radius, single apex corners. Brands has multiple apex corners and the kinds of elevation changes that give a driver the 'WOW' factor.
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