12/12/2023
A couple of winners!
Well, how cool is this, Ben Searcy and a kid called Oscar Piastri - two of my favourite people in the world got to catch up and say hi to each other at the FIA Awards in Baku over the weekend.
Ben was there to receive his award for an outstanding effort in winning the Asia Pacific Rally Championship as a co-driver.
And the other guy… well he is just a special person, and not a bad racer and I have with much pride watched him grow as a young man and deliver on every level.
This FIA awards ceremony, Oscar has collected his second, yes that’s right his second ‘FIA Rookie of the Year Award’ in his last two season of racing!
He won it in his winning F2 seasons, and after a little break has won it for his F1 season…. Well that’s an award he won’t win again for a while!
Ben and I go way back, apart from being a wonderful person he was my very brave co-driver in our Tarmac rally days in our Subaru.
Ben has a wonderful record in the rallying world, an Australian Rally Championship, an Australian Tarmac Rally Chanpionship, an Indonesian Championship and a New Caledonian Championship.
And he can drives as well!
Great people and wonderful motorsport ambassadors, congratulations to you both.