It looked quite the story: Max Esterson dominated yet another Formula Ford end-of-year event to win the Walter Hayes Trophy. It was his third win in a row in these FF1600 showpieces, meaning that he both had two Walter Hayes Trophy wins on the bounce and a FF1600 blue-riband double in 2022, after his Formula Ford Festival win a fortnight ago. An astonishing run of supremacy.
He also did it in difficult conditions, with the track being at least damp all weekend, and he headed home a high-quality 110-plus-strong Hayes field.
But subsequently this grandest of victories was struck from the
