Formula Ford is a single seater, open wheel class in motorsport which exists in some form in many countries around the world. It is an entry-level series to motor racing, in which in the past many drivers aspired to one day reach Formula One (today karting is more likely to be a young driver's entry to serious formula car racing). Formula Ford racing is mainly an amateur, club-racing series attracting serious enthusiasts. The car can provide drivers with their first insights into how a racing car feels to drive and how to properly set up a car, or it can provide a relatively inexpensive way for drivers to campaign purpose-built racecars for many years. The first Formula Ford car was Team Lotus' 1966 Type 51. Unlike its great rival as an entry level formula, Formula Vee, the Formula Ford cars use full racing suspension setups.

A Formula Ford car is one of the more distinctive-looking open-wheel race cars because it does not have wings to create aerodynamic downforce, one of the reasons the series has persisted for so long in motor racing. Top speeds are not high, handling is excellent, and the lack of wings ensures that cars following another are not aerodynamically disadvantaged. Series' rules may favor slick tires or treaded tires. As the rules limit modifications, all cars are relatively equal and close racing results. Still, Formula Fords allow suspension and braking bias changes--if not aerodynamic options like winged cars.

Formula Ford cars weigh less than 450 kg (1000 lb), so their engines, which typically develop about 115 hp, are capable of propelling them from 0–100 km/h in less than five seconds, reaching top speeds of nearly 220 km/h (140 mph). The engine is usually a stressed member of the chassis, as in larger and more advanced Formula cars.

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