Joe Tandy

[2] After finishing college and completing an engineering apprenticeship, Tandy began working as a technician for Jonathan Palmer's Palmersport corporate driving days concern.

[3] Tandy had an impressive season in the championship, eventually winning the title on countback ahead of David Epton.

[11] An on-the-road win at the 2006 Formula Ford Festival would have capped an amazing year for JTR, however Nick was penalised for a safety car misdemeanour, dropping him to fifth.

After their Formula Ford Festival win was taken away the year before, Nick won the race in 2007, after Callum MacLeod was given a two-second time penalty for braking severely while leading under the safety car.

Tandy managed to turn the Mygale into a regular frontrunner, railing against the established Dallara hordes with a small operation and a meagre budget.

Despite missing the rounds in Bucharest, Nick managed to finish ninth overall in the championship, with three podiums coming at Spa, Silverstone and Donington.

Nick started in fine form with a double podium at the season-opening rounds at Oulton Park, and just eighteen days after his brother's death, took the team's first win at Rockingham.

His younger brother is Nick Tandy a successful racing driver who drove for Joe's team, JTR.

[19][20] Tributes to Tandy were paid by former boss Jonathan Palmer, Sam Roach the director of the British Formula Ford Championship the SRO Motorsports Group and the Mini Se7en Racing Club.