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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 ChampionshipCroft

Voisin on top in Croft qualifying

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Bailey Voisin takes his fifth and sixth pole positions of the season with an impressive performance at Croft.

The R Racing drover topped the times early in the session and was unbeatable throughout. A small hiccup came late on, when a flying lap was deleted as he exceeded track limits. However, Voisin improved on the earlier time to secure his place at the top of the order.

Behind him, Tom Lebbon and Freddie Tomlinson swapped times in the battle for second. Lebbon came out on top with his last lap of the morning, but it was still more than half a second slower than Voisin’s 1m38.378s.

It was a difficult session for Georgi Dimitrov, who was forced to come to the pits early on with an apparent mechanical issue. The Richardson Racing team worked hard to try to get him back out, but the issue couldn’t be solved to the pit lane and he sat the rest of the session out. Having not set a lap time he starts from the back of the grid.

Tom Edgar put himself third on the grid ahead of Josh Rattican and Will Jenkins, who carries forward strong momentum after a positive weekend at Silverstone.

Will Vincent also put in an impressive performance. He briefly placed fifth before having a lap time removed for exceeding track limits. He dropped back out of the top 10, only to improve again and finish sixth.

Seb Hopkins and early pace setter Aston Millar took seventh and eighth while Joel Pearson and Tomlinson completed the top 10.

Full results to follow

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

Croft 2020 Qualifying

Second Fastest Times

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipSilverstone

Lebbon penalised for race one contact

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Race one winner Tom Lebbon was handed a 10 second penalty for his part in an incident that knocked Georgi Dimitrov out of the race.

Lebbon took the race win, but not before contact with Dimitrov dropped him out of the lead fight.

The Richardson Racing driver was forced to pit due to the damage, recording his second DNF of the season.

Lebbon’s victory allowed him to further extend his championship lead over Bailey Voisin, who also fought back after contact in the opening laps to finish second on track.

Due to the close nature of the race, the 10 second penalty drops Lebbon back to 11th in the corrected timings. Voisin inherited the race win and moves him ahead of Lebbon in the championship standings.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

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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 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

Voisin extends lead with Thruxton victory

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Bailey Voisin extended his championship lead with victory in the first race of the weekend at Thruxton.

The R Racing driver spent much of the race on the tail of pole sitter Tom Lebbon, before snatching the lead with a move around the outside late in the race.

Lebbon and Voisin were joined by Freddie Tomlinson and Josh Rattican in the first half of the race, the four drivers swapping positions every other lap.

Ay the race midpoint, Tomlinson was running second, just behind Lebbon, but a risky move dropped him down the order and he rejoined in eighth.

Voisin and Rattican were both able to pass Lebbon not long after, but Lebbon fought back to reclaim second.

Rattican didn’t give up and on the final lap the pair ran side by side for a number of corners before Rattican was able to make the move stick.

Lebbon held onto third overall, taking another rookie victory, while Joel Pearson led a train of driver in the first for fourth.

Sebastian Hopkins finished just behind Pearson to take fifth, ahead of Aston Millar, Zak Taylor, and Josh Miller.

Millar was later given a 2.1s penalty for exceeding track limits, dropping him down to ninth overall.

Tom Edgar and William Vincent completed the top 10 on the road, but Vincent was also given a five second penalty for exceeding track limits, promoting Tomlinson back into the top 10 in the final standings.

Image courtesy of Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography.

PR available: Ginetta Junior Update writer Bethonie Waring is available to supply PR and communications services to Ginetta Junior drivers and racers in other selected series. Visit the PR Opportunities tab for more details

Thruxton 2020 Race 1

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2020 Ginetta Junior ChampionshipKnockhill

Rattican claims maiden Junior victory at Knockhill

by Bethonie Waring
written by Bethonie Waring

Josh Rattican clinched his maiden Ginetta Junior victory in a frantic final race of the weekend at Knockhill.

Rattican had run side by side with pole sitter Georgi Dimitrov through multiple corners when he was forced wide by the Richardson Racing driver. He managed to stay in control of the R Racing run Ginetta as he ran through the gravel and returned to the track just ahead of Dimitrov.

He gave Dimitrov room to come back through as he returned to the track, but Dimitrov stayed behind and Rattican secured the lead.

The battle continued behind him as scholarship winner Tom Lebbon battled the rest of the R Racing stable and Dimitrov for the runner up position. Through most of the race the battle for second stayed close to Rattican, but he set consistent flying laps and was able to edge out a gap.

Lebbon emerged in front of the battle for second after a move around the outside of the hairpin, but was kept under pressure by title rival Baileyu Voisin. Voisin tried to force a mistake from the rookie but Lebbon defended well to take second and cut into Voisin’s championship lead. He now lies just four points behind Voisin in the championship standings with five rounds remaining.

Will Jenkins enjoyed a storming drive up through the order, avoiding the drama from earlier races to finish fourth, just ahead of Aston Millar and Joel Pearson.

A wide moment for Dimitrov in the closing stages of the race dropped the Richardson Racing driver down the order and outside the top 10. He was able to makeup a handful of positions to finish seventh overall.

Liam McNeilly and Josh Miller took eighth and ninth while Tommy Pintos came out on top of a frantic wheel to wheel battle with Trennon Bettany to complete the top 10.

Image credit: Ginetta/Jakob Ebrey Photography

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Position Name Number Team Time/Gap
1 Josh Rattican 21 R Racing 16m36.187s (16 Laps)
2 Tom Lebbon 34 Elite Motorsport +3.526s
3 Bailey Voisin 22 R Racing +3.772s
4 Will Jenkins 30 Privateer +5.517s
5 Aston Millar 70 R Racing +6.043s
6 Joel Pearson 29 R Racing +6.357s
7 Georgi Dimitrov 23 Richardson Racing +9.322s
8 Liam McNeilly 48 Fox Motorsport +13.027s
9 Josh Miller 14 Elite Motorsport +13.968s
10 Tommy Pintos 77 Elite Motorsport +17.155s
11 Tom Edgar 52 Total Control Racing +17.397s
12 Zak Taylor 99 Alastair Rushforth Motorsport +18.105s
13 Freddie Tomlinson 62 R Racing +22.587s
14 Trennon Bettany 41 Richardson Racing +30.771s
15 Rowan Vincent 19 Richardson Racing +31.009s
16 Joe Wheeler 88 Assetto Motorsport +32.216s
17 William Vincent 46 Elite Motorsport +33.950s
18 William Rochford 11 Total Control Racing +38.093s
19 William Aspin 16 Elite Motorsport +38.298s
20 Seb Hopkins 18 Elite Motorsport +39.827s

 

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