AFTER Scorton’s Max Coates unveiled his challenger for the 2021 Mini Challenge at Croft Circuit last week, another local young star will join him with the news that Northallerton’s Ethan Hammerton will also contest the series after joining forces with title-winning EXCELR8 Motorsport for his second year in the series. The 20-year-old made the step into the Mini Challenge class 12 months ago, having previously gained a wealth of experience in tin-top racing despite his relatively young age. A vice-champion in both the Junior Saloon Car Championship and the Renault Clio Cup Junior series after first making the move into car racing, Ethan went on to secure podium finishes in the VW Racing Cup and was a race winner in the Renault Clio Cup during the 2019 campaign.
What inspired you to get into photography? I’ll cut a long story short. I broke my spine in two places – this is now fixed, which is great, but the hobbies I did before, I wasn’t able to do, so my wife and children said, “there’s a camera, you like taking photos so go and do something with it”, so that’s what I did. I’m self taught, but my dad John taught me few things and the rest was YouTube videos and I’ve gone on from there. Max Coates
What was your first camera? My first camera was a Fuji pic Bridge and then I went to a Nikon d3100.