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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipBrands Hatch Indy

Lebbon crowned 2020 Ginetta Junior champion, Miller takes first win

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Tom Lebbon becomes the first Ginetta Junior Scholarship winner to take the overal Ginetta Junior title in his rookie season.

Lebbon came into the season finale five points ahead of title rivals Josh Rattican and Bailey Voisin after a time penalty for Voisin in race one.

Starting from the front row of the grid, Lebbon simply needed to stay ahead of his title rivals in order to take the title.

Race action was delayed after Will Vincent ran into the back of a stalled Freddie Tomlinson at the race start, then was hit from behind by Rowan Vincent. Despite heavy damage to Vincent and Tomlinson’s cars, all drivers were able to climb out of their Ginettas unaided.

The race was immediately red flagged and the field returned to the grid.

On the second start, pole sitter Josh Miller got a strong get away, and was pulling a gap to Lebbon when the safety car was brought out as Trennon Bettany slid into the gravel at Paddock Hill Bend.

There was a lengthy safety car period to clear the vehicle, playing into Lebbon’s favour. Bailey Voisin had had a difficult start and dropped down to eighth on the opening lap, while Rattican hadn’t managed to find a way past Lebbon.

Action resumed with less than five minutes on the clock. Miller again got a strong get away, leaving Lebbon to fight with his title rivals.

Miller held Lebbon at arms length to take his maiden car racing victory, 0.674s ahead of his Elite Motorsport team-mate.

Voisin got a strong restart, immedietly pulling alongside Will Aspin in the battle for seventh. The pair came together and Aspin was forced wide, but managed to stay in control despite losing the position.

As Rattican brought a challenge to Lebbon, Voisin picked of Sebastien Hopkins into Druids.

The top three were running nose to tail heading into the final lap. Voisin managed a move around the outside of Rattican to take third, only for Rattican to fight back and reclaim the position.

Lebbon was just able to edge a small gap to Voisin and Rattican in the final corners as Voisin and Rattican ran side-by-side as they took the chequered flag. Rattican was 0.049s ahead of Voisin on the start-finish line, securing second in the championship standings.

Sebastian Hopkins held off Georgi Dimitrov to take fifth, while Tom Edgar finished seventh ahead of Tommy Pintos, Joel Pearson, and James Higgins.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Brands Hatch Indy 2020 Race 2

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipBrands Hatch Indy

Miller claims maiden pole for 2020 finale

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Josh Miller claimed his maiden Ginetta Junior pole position despite bringing out the red flags in the final qualifying session of the season.

Miller was one of three drivers to fall into the gravel at Brands Hatch in the disrupted wet qualifying session.

Miller set the pace early on with a 1m05.000s lap around the Indy circuit. He was briefly knocked off the top spot by championship leader Bailey Voisin, but reclaimed provisional pole position just before an off for Trennon Bettany brought out the red flag just after the 5 minute mark.

The session resumed after a short break, but the green flags were only out for a handful of minutes before two driver ran off at separate parts of the circuit.

Miller ran into the gravel at Paddock Hill Bend and, though he had good momentum, couldn’t keep going and was left stranded. At Clarke Curve, Will Jenkins also ran wide into the gravel.

The falling rain meant lap times in the final five minutes of the session couldn’t compare to those early on, and nobody was able to match Miller’s time.

He ended the morning with a 1m04.470s time, 0.375s ahead of Voisin.

Championship contender Tom Lebbon took third, ahead of Sebastian Hopkins and Joel Pearson.

Will Jenkins qualified sixth and managed to get back out after bringing out the red flag, but was given a black flag for doing so.

Tommy Pintos took seventh, ahead of Tom Edgar, Josh Rattican and Will Aspin.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Brands Hatch Indy 2020 - Qualifying

Second Fastest Times

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipSnetterton

Lebbon secures rookie title with Snetterton victory

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Tom Lebbon seals the Ginetta Junior rookie title and closes in on Bailey Voisin in the overall championship fight with his third victory of the weekend at Snetterton.

Despite starting on pole, it was far from a lights-to-flag victory for Lebbon, who spent most of the race in a five car battle for the lead.

Josh Rattican, Bailey Voisin, and Tommy Pintos all took turns at the front of the order and Lebbon dropped as far down as fifth at one point before fighting back up to P1.

In the final laps of the race, Lebbon was able to break free from the fight behind him. Once clear of the tow, he built a comfortable gap to finish more than 7 seconds ahead of the battle.

Rattican held off former team-mate Voisin to take second, while an incredible climb up through the field allowed Joel Pearson to snatch fourth on the final lap.

Minor contact damaged the bonnet of Pintos’ Elite Motorsport run Ginetta, causing it to come loose. He was able to continue, but dropped slightly back from the fight for second and finished fifth.

Sebastian Hopkins spent the race at the back of the battle for the lead and finished sixth, ahead of Tom Edgar and Freddie Tomlinson.

Aston Millar, Will Jenkins and William Vincent completed the top 10.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Snetterton 2020 Race 3

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Snetterton

Lebbon takes two wins from opening day at Snetterton

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Tom Lebbon claimed a pair of victories from the first day of action at Snetterton.

Lebbon spent both races battling title rival Bailey Voisin in different conditions. After swapping positions multiple times in both races, Lebbon just edged out Voisin in the dash to the flag.

Voisin qualified on pole position for both  races, but he wouldn’t hold the lead for long before Lebbon swept past him at the start of race one.

Lebbon initially got a good gap but a series of flying laps brought Voisin back on his tail.

The pair rain side by side for a handful of corners before Voisin got back ahead. Again, it wasn’t long before Lebbon swept back past on the Bentley Straight.

The championship contenders swapped positions twice more before the final lap. The battle drew Georgi Dimitrov onto their tail, making it a three car fight for the win. Lebbon held them both off to finish 1.273s ahead of Voisin, with Dimitrov a further 0.177s back.

Their championship rival Josh Rattican had a race to forget. He was forced to pit with an issue on his right rear early on. He got out without dropping a lap but, with no safety car periods, was unable to close in on the rest of the field and finished last.

Tommy Pintos managed one of his best performances of the year. After passing Sebastian Hopkins for fourth early, he spent the remainder of the race defending against his Elite team-mate.

Will Jenkins initially closed in on the fight for P4, but fell back to finish a comfortable sixth ahead of Tom Edgar and William Aspin.

Joe Wheeler and Aston Millar completed the top 10.

Race two was no simpler for the championship leaders.

Voisin, Lebbon, and Rattican were immediately battling for the lead. Hopkins and Dimitrov soon joined the fight and Lebbon was shuffled back to fifth.

Pintos made it six cars at the front, the order changing at almost every corner.

Before long, Lebbon had moved back into the race lead but couldn’t shake Voisin.

The top two managed to break away while Rattican, Pintos, Hopkins and Dimitrov continued to swap positions further back.

Voisin and Lebbon resumed their two-way fight for the lead from race one. Voisin briefly took first, but couldn’t hold on and finished 0.175s behind.

Pintos picked up third late on to take his first car racing podium. Rattican and Hopkins took fourth and fifth while William Aspin snatched sixth from Dimitrov late on.

Pearson climbed up from the tail end of the grid to take eighth, ahead of Edger and Millar.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Snetterton 2020 Race 1

Snetterton 2020 Race 2

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipSnetterton

Voisin on pole for penultimate round at Snetterton

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Bailey Voisin secured a double pole for the penultimate round of the 2020 Ginetta Junior championship at Snetterton.

Championship rival Tom Lebbon set the pace early in the session, but it wasn’t long before Voisin topped the order.

The R Racing driver managed a 2m21.017s lap around the Snetterton 300 circuit, ending the morning 0.412s quicker than the next closest driver.

A late improvement from Lebbon put him second, ahead of Joel Pearson and Josh Rattican.

Sebastian Hopkins placed fifth overall, but his second fastest lap time was enough to put him third on the grid for race two, behind Voisin and Lebbon.

Tommy Pintos put in one of his best qualifying performances of the season to put himself P6, ahead of Will Jenkins and Georgi Dimitrov.

William Aspin and Trennon Bettany rounded out the top 10.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Snetterton 2020 - Qualifying

Second Fastest Times

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipCroft

Rattican pips Lebbon to Croft victory

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Josh Rattican denied Tom Lebbon the race win in the opening Ginetta Junior race of the weekend at Croft after a last lap move to snatch the victory.

An incident for Rowan Vincent further back brought out the safety car in the closing stages of the race. With less than a minute on the clock, the safety car returned to the pits and Lebbon brought the field round for one last flying lap.

Lebbon made a good restart, but he couldn’t shake Rattican and the Rattican made a move around the outside to snatch the lead.

With Tom Edgar now breathing down his neck, Lebbon was forced to defend P2 and couldn’t attempt to retake the position.

At the end of the lap, Rattican came through to take the win 0.723s ahead of Lebbon.

Second place was still enough for Lebbon to move into the championship lead, as title rival Bailey Voisin could only manage 10th.

Voisin had qualified on pole, but was disqualified from the session after scrutineering. He was sent to the back of the grid and forced to climb back through the order.

His progress was hindered at the end of the opening lap, when an incident for Josh Miller caused the Elite Motorsport driver to stop on track.

The safety car was brought out while Voisin was 15th, running behind Aston Millar and Will Rochford.

Voisin continued to climb forward after the restart, briefly setting the fastest lap of the race before the time was beaten by Rattican.

He had climbed up to 11th by the time the second safety car came out, and was just able to take 10th from Joe Wheeler on the final lap.

At the top of the order, Tom Edgar took a well earned podium after spending much of the race defending against Will Jenkins. Jenkins pushed Edgar hard, only for a small mistake to send him wide and drop him back down the order.

Jenkins recovered to take fifth from Freddie Tomlinson but ran out of laps before he could bring a challenge to Will Vincent.

Joel Pearson took seventh ahead of the Elite Motorsport duo of Tommy Pintos and Sebastian Hopkins.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Croft 2020 Race 1

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipSilverstone

Lebbon victorious in frantic Silverstone opener

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Tom Lebbon snatched the victory a frantic opening Ginetta Junior race of the weekend at Silverstone.

Lebbon started from third but, in typical Ginetta Junior fashion, was immediately challenging Georgi Dimitrov and Bailey Voisin for the race lead.

An incident dropped Voisin back down the order and Lebbon fell to fifth by the end of the opening lap, though he quickly rejoined the battle at the front of the field.

Dimitrov, who had had the strongest start of the field, took the race lead, but had the R Racing trio of Joel Pearson, Freddie Tomlinson and Aston Millar on his tail. Lebbon rejoined the leaders to make it a three way fight for the lead.

Pearson briefly snatched the race lead, only to run wide a few corners later and drop down the order. At the same time, contact between Lebbon and Dimitrov knocked them both out of the lead fight and Dimitrov was forced to pit with heavy damage.

William Vincent managed to avoid the drama to emerge in the race lead ahead of Tomlinson and Millar, and put up a good defence against the two R Racing drivers. Before they could put up much of a fight, though, the two team-mates made contact with one another, falling backwards.

Lebbon recovered to take third from Sebastian Hopkins and quickly closed in on Vincent as Bailey Voisin recovered after his earlier incident.

The Scholarship winner quickly took the race lead from Vincent and built a small gap to the rest of the field as Vincent defended against Voisin and Rattican.

Vincent, Voisin and Rattican ran three wide in the battle for second, with Vincent squeezed between the two R Racing drivers. He lost both positions as Voisin took second and closed the gap to Lebbon.

Lebbon held onto the lead to extend his gap at the front of the order.

Voisin finished 0.834s back in second, while Rattican picked up the final step on the podium and Vincent picked up his best result of the season in fourth.

Hopkins also made the most of the drama to finish fifth ahead of Zak Taylor, who enjoyed a strong drive up through the order after starting 17th.

Josh Miller finished seventh ahead of William Aspin and Tom Edgar, who was handed an eight place grid penalty for track limits infringements at Thruxton and during qualifying.

Millar recovered from the earlier incident to complete the top 10.

UPDATE: Tom Lebbon was handed a 10 second penalty post-race, dropping him to 11th in the overall standings and promoting Bailey Voisin to the victory.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Silverstone 2020 Race 1

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipSilverstone

Voisin bounces back with Silverstone pole

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Bailey Voisin bounced back from a difficult Thruxton weekend to take pole for the opening Ginetta Junior race at Silverstone.

The R Racing driver topped qualifying early on, setting the early benchmark at 1m11.489s.

While the entire field would improve on later laps, Voisin stayed at the top of the order, consistently setting fast laps to stay out of reach.

He ended the session with a 1m11.085s lap time, almost half a second quicker than the next fastest driver.

Georgi Dimitrov returned to the front of the field with the second fastest time in the session, and will line-up alongside Voisin for races one and two.

Championship leader Tom Lebbon could only manage third quickest overall, 0.093s slower than Dimitrov and starts ahead of R Racing trio Joel Pearson, Freddie Tomlinson, and Aston Millar.

After a strong performance at Thruxton, Tom Edgar managed to put himself seventh on the grid for the opening race of the weekend, ahead of Will Jenkins.

Jenkins may have qualified eighth overall, but his second fastest lap was enough to earn eighth on the grid for race two.

William Aspin and Josh Rattican will also start higher in the second race of the weekend. The pair qualified ninth and 10th for race one, but will start 8th and 7th in race two.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Silverstone 2020 Qualifying

2nd Fastest Times

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipThruxton

Rattican victorious as Lebbon takes championship lead

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Josh Rattican avoided the drama to pick up his second Ginetta Junior victory of the season after team-mate Bailey Voisin was wiped out of the race in a multi-car accident.

The second race of the weekend at Thruxton was red flagged just after the midpoint as the multi-car pile up left debris strewn across the track.

Freddie Tomlinson had picked up the race lead off the line, ahead of pole sitter Tom Lebbon, Tom Edgar, Zak Taylor and Rattican.

Voisin, who started third, dropped backwards but was trying to make his way back up through the order when he collided with William Rochford and Rowan Vincent, severely damaging the front of his R Racing run car.

Lebbon had reclaimed the race lead just before the safety car was brought out after Freddie Tomlinson was forced wide and dropped down the order.

The field ran behind the safety car for a lap before the red flag was brought out and the remaining 14 cars lined up on the grid.

Rattican, who started second on the restart, got a good start to take the led from Lebbon and immediately pulled away from the rest of the field. Lebbon initially came under pressure from Joel Pearson, Edgar and Miller, but was eventually able to shake th tio and began to catch Rattican.

Though he set the fastest lap of the race, Lebbon couldn’t close the gap to Rattican and had to settle for second. It was enough to secure the championship lead, putting himself 24 points ahead of Voisin.

Miller won the battle for third, taking his first podium of the season with a comfortable gap back to fourth.

Edgar just edged out Tomlinson to take fourth, while the battling William Vincent and Tommy Pintos took sixth and seventh.

Sebastian Hopkins, Joel Pearson, and Aston Millar completed the top 10.

Full results to follow

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography.

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipThruxton

Lebbon on top again in Thruxton qualifying

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Tom Lebbon dominated qualifying and will start both races from pole at Thruxton.

The Ginetta Junior field could only handle a handful of quick laps around Britain’s fastest race circuit before the times began to fall away.

Lebbon was quick to get onto pace, beating the time he set in this morning’s free practice session to manage a 1m31.684s lap.

Championship leader Bailey Voisin will start alongside him in the first race of the weekend, having lapped just 0.088s slower than Lebbon, while two consistent quick laps put Freddie Tomlinson on the front row for race two.

Tomlinson’s best time of the day was only enough to put him third fastest overall, however, and he starts alongside team-mate Aston Millar.

Seb Hopkins and Josh Miller took fifth and sixth quickest, ahead of Tom Edgar.

Edgar will start the second race of the weekend from fourth, alongside Voisin and ahead of Millar and Miller.

Zak Taylor qualified eighth overall while Josh Rattican and Joel Pearson completed the top 10.

Track limits were an issue for most of the drivers. Many had lap times removed but all were able to keep the car on circuit for their quick times.

Third in the championship Georgi Dimitrov was one of the drivers not caught out by track limits, but he could only manage 16th overall.

Image credit: Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

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Thruxton 2020 Qualifying

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