PlayStation Ginetta Junior Championship

Rounds 7 and 8 - Croft

A Great & British Bank Holiday Weekend At Croft

By Lisa Davidson and Jay Ashton

The Dunlop Great & British Festival will be returning to the Croft circuit for a second year providing a thrilling weekend of motorsport action for the Bank Holiday on 25th and 26th August.

The event will feature the Radical EnDuro and BiDuro Championships, the MINI Challenge and the PlayStation Ginetta Juniors, to form the core race action of the weekend.

The exciting PlayStation Ginetta Junior series made its debut on the Great & British Festival at Donington earlier in August. 

The biggest ever grid of G20 GT4 cars will be at Croft with 20 racers aged between 14 & 17 years old set to compete. Mikey Crabtree and Dino Zamparelli join the fold for their first races.

Zamparelli is the latest of young karters progressing to the increasingly popular sportscar Championship. The Ginetta Junior Championship was introduced in 2003 and is a natural progression route from kart racing.

Stars of Tomorrow graduate Nigel Moore currently leads the Championship by 37 points, but wins at Donington by Dominic Pettit and James Jefferson with podiums by Nick Ponting, Kieron Vernon and Tom Sharp all prove as a threat to his lead.

However, missing from the paddock will be Evesham-based Cassey Watson. She has been forced to withdraw from the Championship following recent floods in her hometown. With Cassey's racing paid for from sponsored car sales, devastation struck when the entire stock was totally submerged in the flooding.

“So many people have been hit hard by these events and mine's just another story in a long list” said Cassey.
  
At the Dunlop Great & British event this weekend, spectators will get closer to the action with the first 100 cars through the gates at Croft on Sunday given the rare opportunity to drive their car on track at 11am for a special parade lap.  All drivers must sign-on between 10 and 10:45 to secure their place in the parade.

In addition, Radical BiDuro cars will convoy round the circuit to the grid where at lunchtime spectators can do a ‘grid walk’ and wander around the pit lane to see the PlayStation Ginetta Juniors.

Lisa Davison of Dunlop Great & British Festivals said: “The Dunlop Great & British Festival at Croft will offer spectators plenty of excitement, with the experience of driving on the track in their own cars and non-stop race action on Sunday.”

Tickets for the Dunlop Great and British Motorsport Festival at Croft are £10.00 and under 15’s go free.

A special 2-for-1-ticket offer is available to download at
www.driversknow.co.uk/greatbritishfestivals/news.