Leastone Racing Cars

Reigning UK Monoposto champion Mark Reade gave the Leastone 1000 its competitive debut on Irish soil last weekend at Mondello Park’s Leinster Trophy event, racing in the Formula Libre class. The local man recorded an impressive pair of top 5 finishes, battling hard against a great turn out of Formula 3, Formula Renault and F3000 machines.

Testing was limited to a handful of sessions on Friday which gave him some feel for the 1000 around the technical 3.6km Donore circuit, before heading into Saturday morning’s qualifying session. Struggling with...