Ginetta Cars

They're always great in addition to the entry list, aren't they? Yeah.

And further up and down that order, because remember one of the very strong things about the SRO package, apart from its excellent stringing platform, which has huge numbers for Portimao, principally courtesy of Max Verstappen's entry, is some Really good other racing on the package, including a GT2 Championship win for Ginetta.

Fantastic.

Great stuff to see them coming in and punching.

I started racing when I was eight and stopped at the end of last year.

So last year I did the Ginetta and I also did the karting.

So it was a mix of both.

In

an aggressive affair, but yeah, I think we've had a lot of good racing together.

And

in your 10-top career, one year of Ginetta, how did you do in that?

I finished third in the end.

Like-

I feel like the Ginetta is, the shape of the Ginetta is it just-

Exactly

... awkward anyway, to be honest.

Mm.

I mean, oh, well, I say I've rated mine a bit higher, but, um, my next one might not be.

Um, so I've gone for the other, uh, Ginetta of-

Ginetta hater.

Yeah.

Yeah, I used to sponsor a, a, a kid in Ginetta.

He was a, a, a c- a friend's son, but also a client, and he, he...

I don't sponsor him anymore, he got too expensive.

Mm.

And, um, he's doing really well.

Yeah, Junior Ginettas was a fantastic class, and why they stopped it, I don't know.

It's ridiculous really.

This is going to sound so name-droppy here, but myself, Martin Brundle, and Alex Brundle, and some other friends went karting and driving single-seaters, the 3000s.

We had Ginettas as well, McLarens.

We just spent the day driving, and I just really fell in love with the Ginettas.

It feels like you're in Apollo 11. when you're behind the wheel of them, just all the old keyboard buttons and no thrills.

I just love that.

But I thought it was quite interesting as well because we were, for once, seeing some other cars really just get in and amongst that horde of GT40s that try and dominate it.

And there was a Ginetta right up there.

And we know a Ginetta G4R can be very, very quick.

And apparently the Ginetta was actually topping 140 miles an hour on the straight.

So absolutely right up.

Yeah, that's going to get your attention.

Yeah, good point.

Yeah, it was.

But it's one of those things where how much is it down to the car? And you have to question that when the gaps are as big as they were.

We questioned it with the Ginetta throughout the earlier part of the season.

It's only fair we question it now with the McLaren as well.

So...

the main thing to adapt is the aero there's not much on the car but it's just getting to use that as much as possible and then with the genetta it's completely different because it's on the road tires and the car moves a lot um i mean there's a lot always a lot of sliding going on and so it's quite a hard car to to make perfect so i think they're both quite different i think It's probably a bit easier to be faster in the MSA car.

I think the Ginetta is pretty tough.

I think to be fast you have to be pretty good.

And of course the racing in the Ginetta is really good and also MSA last year.

It's a bit worse in MSA with overtaking.

Because of the aero you generally lose it when you get close to someone ahead of you.