Spencer Pigot – Finally Here!

Brands Hatch, England (October 11, 2010) – Just over a week ago I was at Road Atlanta for the final rounds of the BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Series Presented by Mazda. I won one race and the championship! I was also awarded the Team USA Scholarship award along with my friend Felix Serralles. It is a prize that is given to two of the best up-and-coming American drivers and allows us to race in the British Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch and the Walter Hayes Trophy Race at Silverstone in a Formula Ford 1600 with Cliff Dempsey Racing. It’s a great honor to be over here representing my country and being apart of a list of drivers that have won the award that have gone on to win major championships and races such as the Indianapolis 500. I am really looking forward to this experience and trying to continue the winning streak of the scholarship drivers in the recent years!

We have finally arrived at Brands Hatch after a long trip from Orlando, Fla., to London. I had been extremely busy the previous week with getting caught up with the schoolwork I missed while I was at Road Atlanta and I had to take the SATs the morning I left for England.

Felix and I were both on the same flight since we live relatively close to each other in Florida. It was a really long flight through the night and I didn’t manage to get much rest. We got to England on Sunday morning at about 6:30am and the lady at customs almost didn’t let us in! She didn’t believe the fact that we were in England to race so I had to explain to her all about the Team USA Scholarship and she eventually let us in after about five minutes. From there we went straight to Brands Hatch to watch the final rounds of the British Touring Car Championship, which was really cool! There was a huge crowd because it was the final rounds of the BTCC and the championship was between a few drivers. The races were very exciting and it gave us a chance to see the track up close. I got to hang out a lot with the winner of the Ginetta Cup races, Carl Breeze, who gave me some hints about the circuit.

Then I finally got to catch up on some sleep. I slept from 8:00pm to 9:30am! I’m all over the jet lag and really excited for the first day of testing on Tuesday. Today we went to the gym in the morning and then over to the paddock to help the team set up the tent. Once we had finally finished with the set up we went on a track walk with Peter Dempsey which was very helpful because he has driven around the track many times in the Formula Ford. He gave us a lot of good tips. My car didn’t arrive until about 9:30pm. It looks great, I can’t wait to drive it! We got back to the hotel at about 11:30pm after both of us got the seats and belts all sorted out of the cars. We start testing early Tuesday morning!