The team from Maldon, Essex, resultantly ended the season with a total of 26 podium finishes to continue to cement their status as one of the UK’s leading Ginetta specialist racing teams.
Ginetta GT Championship
Oliver Fordham’s first series podium came after a fast and consistent drive in the second of two races at Donington.
Managing to avoid a multi-car incident at the ultra-fast Craner Curves on the opening lap, he was straight on the pace when the race was restarted four hours later (albeit now having been reduced from 40-minute ‘Pitstop Race’ to 20-minute ‘Sprint’ status.
Running in the podium spots in the Am class throughout, the driver from Halstead, Essex, persevered and scored his first rostrum since he netted a guest class win in the lower GT Academy Series at Brands Hatch a year ago. He was sixth in Race One.
Team-mate James Rolling had to take to the grass at Craners to avoid the Race Two incident and suffered door damage after being hit by a flying Recticel barrier, which had been dislodged in an impact with another car.
With a replacement installed for the restart, he finished fifth to match his result on Saturday. The Ascot-based Welshman had begun Saturday in fine form by qualifying a season’s-best sixth in class too.
Ginetta Junior Championship
Henry Cameron enjoyed his best weekend of the season with a treble podium in the Freshman Trophy to take his total for the year to 20 – the most achieved by a Fox Motorsport season in a single season of racing.
The 15-year-old from Wilmslow equalled his best qualifying result to date to start 15th in the Rookie class and fourth in the Freshman Trophy and continued to show the progress he has made across the second half of the season in the three races.
All three Freshman third-place finishes came in 14th place overall – his best outright results to date – while Sunday’s two races resulted in top-10 Rookie positions.
Henry had run as high as eighth in the Rookie order during Sunday’s finale, but was cruelly denied this result as a mid-race safety car allowed other drivers, who had dropped back due to mistakes, to artificially close in and overtake late on.
Paul McNeilly, Team Principal, said: “It’s been a tough, but very satisfying end to the Ginetta season. Having Storm Amy tear through the paddock on Friday and give us a lot of wet sessions didn’t really help, but we go through it and everybody drove very well. Oly’s been pretty fast all year for a driver with zero experience of racing a car with slick tyres so his podium really shows how well he’s smoothed off some of the rough edges. James is so close to a podium too and it will surely come soon. Henry had his best weekend yet in terms of overall positions and that should hopefully give him a lot of confidence as we head into the winter and start preparing for season 2026.”
