2025 Australian Formula Ford 1600 Nationals, returning to Sensational South Australia
The Formula Ford Association together with Mallala Motorsport Park are excited to announce the first set of details for the 2025 edition of the Australian Formula Ford 1600 Nationals.
With the Duratec-powered Australian Formula Ford Series calendar being announced recently, competitor enquiry quickly turned to the annual marquee event for their Kent-powered Formula Ford 1600 cousins. The following can now be confirmed, with further details set to be revealed before the end of the year.
We will be returning national-level Formula Ford 1600 racing to sensational South Australia for the first time since 2014 when the AFF1600NATS joins the 2025 Mallala Homecoming event.
In a unique format the event will run from November 20-22, which comprises of Thursday Free Practice, Friday Qualifying and Heat Racing running into the twilight, while the FINAL that determines the ultimate AFF1600NATS winner will be run during the Saturday 22nd schedule.
In addition to this year’s well received social media takeover of the FFordAus accounts, for the 2025 edition there will be live and free to air coverage, with details to be revealed at a later date.
In securing this particular date it means each of the four State Formula Ford Championships in WA, NSW, Victoria and Queensland will have been concluded, including their Formula Ford 1600 component, allowing teams and drivers to focus solely on their Nationals campaign. Meanwhile event organisers can now begin the search for some additional interlopers from other categories and from Formula Ford’s rich history of driving talent to join the party.
For those who want to take in all South Australia has to offer in the following week, their break away can be rounded out with a visit to the Repco Supercars Championship’s season ending VAILO Adelaide Grand Final which is the weekend following the AFF1600NATS at Mallala.
After a successful and popular 2024 edition, held in Queensland and won by Tom Chapman from WA, we look forward to presenting Formula Ford 1600 competitors with an even bigger group gathering in 2025.
Regarding the circuit itself, Mallala hosted the Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series several times through to 1992, and then continued with a near unbroken run of rounds of the DtES’ successor the Australian Formula Ford Championship from 1993 through to 2006, with the exception being 1999.
In 2005 it was David Sieders aboard a Van Diemen RF04 who scored the final AFFC round victory at Mallala with a Kent powered car.
For 2006 Australia’s premier competition moved from the Kent engine to the Ford Fiesta sourced Duratec, but there was one more addition to add to the Mallala’s national Kent-powered story. Come 2014 the Formula Ford Association led a new era of category management with the touring party of Formula Fords now under the banner of Australian Formula Ford Series, and the first round of the new format was held at Mallala where James Garley secured what would be the most recent Mallala national victory in a Kent powered car when he clean swept the FF1600 division.
Also for 2006, the cars which had been known as Formula Ford up to that point required a new name, and the one that was adopted utilised the internationally recognised 1600 suffix and thus Australian Formula Ford 1600 came into existence with the regulations otherwise mostly unchanged and with cars continuing to be built and imported.
Now with much excitement we prepare for the return of national level Formula Ford 1600 racing to Mallala and South Australia in 2025. Follow all the Formula Ford Association media channels to stay informed and November here we come!
Event enquiries:
Jeff Senior jsr76@hotmail.com 0412 580 620
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