Scott Malvern
| Scott Malvern | |
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Scott Malvern 2012 Formula Renault Champion
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| Nationality |
 British
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| Born |
23 February 1989 Barking, United Kingdom |
| Formula Renault BARC career | |
| Debut season | 2012 |
| Current team | Cullen Motorsport |
| Car no. | 4 |
| Former teams | Cliff Dempsey Racing |
| Starts | 14 |
| Wins | 3 |
| Poles | 1 |
| Fastest laps | 7 |
| Best finish | 1st in 2012 |
| Previous series | |
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2011 2010–11 2009 2009 |
Formula Ford EuroCup British Formula Ford Championship Club Formula Ford Irish Formula Ford 1600 |
| Championship titles | |
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2012 2011 2011 2009 2009 |
Formula Renault BARC Formula Ford Festival British Formula Ford Championship Club Formula Ford National, Post '89 Club Formula Ford, Midland South |
| Awards | |
| 2012 2011 2010 |
Autosport Club Driver of the Year BRDC Henry Surtees Award BRDC Rising Star |
Scott Aaron Malvern (born 23 February 1989) is a British racing driver, currently competing in the British GT Championship who is best known for winning the 2011 British Formula Ford Championship, the 2012 Formula Renault BARC championship and twice being nominated for the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award.Malvern was also awarded the British Racing Drivers Club Henry Surtees Award in 2011 and the Autosport Club Driver of the Year in 2012.
Born in Barking, Malvern attended Fairlop Primary School in Barkingside Greater London (where he grew up) and then Caterham High School in Clayhall before going on to study engineering at University whilst also working as a race mechanic. Malvern had an extensive karting career, having gained an interest in the sport when he took part in a summer holiday fun day at The Brentwood Raceway Arrive & Drive circuit near Great Warley. Scott made his race debut at the Buckmore Park circuit in Kent in January 1998. Scott competed between 1998 and 2007 in various series. His first championships came in 1999 at the 60 cc Comer Cadet level, winning the BPKC Henry Moore Memorial Shield and Lydd Club Championship for Keith Baines Motorsport. He won several more club level championships but the closest he came to winning a national championship title was when he finished runner-up, for Project One Racing, in the 2005 Super 1 National Formula TKM Extreme Championship, finishing 37 points behind Adam Constable in the final championship standings. He also won the Renault Champion of Champions title in 2005. His kart career ended in December 2007 with a victory at The PF International circuit in Lincolnshire driving a Gillard chassis for Project One Racing in the popular Rotax Max class. A few days later Scott sampled a Formula Ford car for the first time with the Jamun Racing Team at Silverstone.
Malvern did not race during the 2008 season, but remained involved in motorsport working as a mechanic for British Formula Ford Champions Jamun Racing based in Rochester, Kent. Along with testing the team's cars during the season, Malvern worked as number one mechanic on the car of Tim Blanchard, one of the team's drivers in that season's British Formula Ford Championship; Blanchard finished the season as runner-up to another Jamun driver, Wayne Boyd. Malvern made his race debut in a Formula Ford car, and indeed in car racing, at the start the 2009 season at the relatively late age of 20 years old, moving to the Cliff Dempsey Racing team in the Webcon UK National Formula Ford Championship. Competing in the class for cars built after 1989, Malvern was immediately competitive winning a race and finishing 2nd on his National FF1600 debut weekend at Anglsey and also set two new lap records (the circuit used two different layouts that weekend) and then went on to win the national championship with six victories in the season's fourteen races; the title was not confirmed until two months after the season-ending race at Mondello Park. He also won the Midlands South sub-championship (where he competed in only half of the ten rounds), as well as finishing third in the North West sub-championship (where he took part in just four of ten rounds), and won a race on a guest appearance in the Irish Formula Ford 1600 series & beat hot favourite Rory Butcher to win the Jackie Stewart Golden Helmet Trophy at the Scottish Speed Festival at Knockhill. Malvern's season ended with a second-place finish to Rory Butcher in the Kent class of the Formula Ford Festival, missing out on victory by just 0.069 seconds.
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