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The glorious Emerson Fittipaldi Trophy, won the last 3 years in a row by our Selco.ie National Champion Anthony Cross, that will be raced for again this weekend!
But how did we end up with a trophy named after F1 legend Emerson Fittipaldi?
Hailing from Brazil, Emerson Fittipaldi is a retired Formula 1 driver. He first raced F1 in the early 1970s. However, as we all know, you don’t just wake up one day as an F1 driver..if only it was that easy 😄
Fittipaldi started racing as a teenager – racing none other than Formula Vee! In his 2nd season in Veez, he became Brazilian champion aged just 21. It was at this time that he travelled to Europe to progress his racing career further.
The Emerson Fittipaldi Trophy, fondly known around the paddock as “The Emmo”, was first awarded to Formula Vee Ireland in the mid 1970s. Given his history in Formula Vee, Fittipaldi agreed to provide Formula Vee Ireland with a trophy! It was initially to be awarded to the first Irish driver to win the championship, but has since become a perpetual trophy, and we race for it as the last, non-championship, race of the season, in Kirkistown 🤩
So that’s the story of the Emmo! We are racing for it this weekend, as our second race of the day in Kirkistown. We have a huge amount of prizes up for grabs! 3 sets of tyres for each of our championships, as well as £100 to the driver of the fastest lap! Many thanks to Bill Adair, 500 MRCI, and Alan Drysdale for providing the prizes 🤩
As always, we will be streaming from the top of the tower, and we will have LOADS of updates all weekend….although we promise stories won’t be as long as they were in Donington 👀😂
Stay tuned for more!
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