Ginetta GT Championship
It was Welsh teenager Mckenzie Douglass who was the big story of the weekend as the 2024 title-winner was reunited with Fox for his first taste of the new-for-2025 Ginetta G56 GTP8 car in Friday’s pre-event test.
His lack of experience with the car restricted him to sixth in Pro-class qualifying, but his increasing familiarity helped him climb to fourth spot in Saturday’s opening race.
Starting there 24 hours later, he joined a three-way fight for the win for more than half of Sunday’s second race and came home third to record his first podium finish of 2025.
Team-mate Oliver Fordham was taking part in only his third-ever race event and his second in the series.
The Essex racer built on his Donington performance and took a significant step forwards with both his speed and consistency to start and finish in his best career Am-class results with seventh spot on Saturday. He went one better 24 hours later with sixth.
Ginetta Junior Championship
A Freshman Trophy win already in the bag from Donington, Henry Cameron scored a double class podium at Silverstone as he continued his Rookie car-racing campaign.
The Wilmslow racer came into qualifying unsure what to expect after throttle issues had impacted on his Thursday and Friday test sessions and left him without a clear picture of how his car was supposed to feel.
Undeterred, he pushed the boundaries to qualify 21st overall and fourth-best of the Freshman Trophy racers. He then tempered his desire to attack at the start and instead picked his way through the plentiful incidents that occurred all weekend.
Third in the Freshman Trophy in Race One was followed by fourth and then second in the finale; his Race Three result coming after he’d had to drive off the circuit to avoid a several spinning cars early on.
Team-mate Freddie Lloyd, from Sevenoaks, continued to mark himself out as one of the most exciting drivers in the series as the karting graduate again performed heroics in a packed midfield.
He qualified a career-best 17th overall and 13th in the Rookie class to put himself firmly in the midfield on a track where overtaking is less difficult than most.
Sixth place on Saturday – which became ninth after a track-limits penalty was applied – came after some impressive passing moves, and he added eighth and ninth on Sunday (fifth and seventh in the Rookie placings) to sit seventh in the points.
Paul McNeilly, Team Principal, said: “That’s two rounds down and two strong weekends for the team. It was great to have Mckenzie back after our title success together and to watch his progress through the weekend as he moved back onto the podium, and equally great to have a driver for Oly to benchmark himself against and learn from – with very positive results for him. Freddie and Henry both made good progress in Juniors and were always in a race with someone. I think had we maximised qualifying, we could have been looking at even more than they achieved, but that will come, I’m sure.”
