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MASCAR The Danica Patrick of Mascar Juli Stanford #11 leads the Way. www.mascar.co.uk The first lady of Mascar has at long last returned to her previous form by winning: the last two meetings, two heat wins, a second in the final at Foxhall Raceway, Ipswich and winning all three races at Aldershot showing the boys just how it’s done on two totally different types of tracks. something other than the pain he was in - he’d time to think over what might be the problem with the car. Black and The ‘final’ saw 16 year old rookie Aaron Cooke [#96], take a flat out turn and stealing the ‘Hat-trick Win’ away from #11 after a last lap pass. However, Juli still managed to win overall on Mascar points. After a spell of just about managing to get into the top five - the now top-form girl-racer has suddenly found her legs again and ‘modestly’ puts her success down to the car set-up that finally matches her smooth driving style. Full-time driving instructor Julie always knew the car had the potential to do really well and couldn’t quite understand why she wasn’t taking the trophies home to fill those spaces on the mantlepiece. In August this year, Juli’s partner Steve had survived being trapped under a fork-lift truck and we can only imagine in our worst nightmares the suffering he’s had -we’re guessing he said something like “What the fork-in Hell was that!”. The first meeting at Ipswich saw Juli [#11] take two heat wins. Racing from the front half of the grid, it was still an impressive drive and after fending off several attacks, she had more in reserve than she thought. At the next meeting at Aldershot, she took an impressive flag to flag victory again fending off challenges from the top boys to make it FIVE wins out of SIX races. blue from the neck down - and many of us have seen the facebook photos thankfully, the neck up was working in overdrive and after some adjustments to the car, it was totally transformed. With Juli and her newly-tuned car doing a complete u-turn, her future looks bright for the rest of the season. What could be next? She looks like a serious contender for The British Championship. However, Joking aside, his survival is nothing short of a miracle. Speaking of which, recovering from the accident and trying to think of 6 Tel: 0844 840 8104