Hot on the heels of a spectacular weekend of racing at Croft, the second half of the 2026 Ginetta Junior Championship powered by Sunoco Race Fuels season kicks into gear this weekend with a trip overseas to Zandvoort (11/12 July).
The Ginetta Junior Championship, with features talented young drivers aged 14 to 17, will compete in the Netherlands for a second consecutive season. A thrilling first outing there last year saw victories for home hero Rocco Coronel and his R Racing team-mate Alfie Slater.
Devon Hagelen (Elite Motorsport) will be contesting his home event this time around. The current Ginetta Junior Scholarship winner heads to Zandvoort in a good run of form, having picked up his first rookie class podium at Oulton Park and posted the fastest racing lap of the weekend at Croft.
The driver at the top of the championship standings ahead of the trip to Zandvoort is Lewis Goff (R Racing). He got off to a brilliant start to the season, finishing each of the opening nine races inside the top five overall and picking up six race victories along the way.
Goff had a difficult weekend at Croft however, being limited to a single podium finish from four races and seeing a puncture cause his first non-points score of the season. The four drivers behind him in the points all outscored him, but he still retains a strong advantage atop the standings.
Arguably the in-form driver heading to the Dutch coast is Harrison Mackie (Elite Motorsport). The rookie talent has picked up five podium finishes in the last six races, with the only time he’s missed out on the top three coming after he was spun out of the lead on the last lap in Croft’s opener.
Mackie picked up his maiden victory in the championship at Oulton Park and was able to double his tally later in the Croft weekend. That success helped him move over 50 points closer to Goff in the standings, and he’s determined to continue closing the gap this weekend.
Harry Bartle (Pace Performance) currently sits second in the standings, having enjoyed a superb start to the campaign with five podium finishes in the first six races. While he hasn’t quite been able to consistently hit those heights in the last couple of rounds, he’s kept fighting and was rewarded with a second win of the year at Croft.
Six points behind Bartle is Jesse Phillips (R Racing), another driver to have reduced their deficit to Goff with a successful Croft weekend. Three overall podiums across that event takes him to seven for the season so far, and his next target will be securing a first race victory.
One of the best performers in recent rounds has been Jacob Ashcroft. Competing as part of Elite Motorsport’s talent pathway with McLaren, he’s secured double podium finishes in each of the last three rounds and secured a breakthrough race win at Croft.
Riley Cranham was another race-winner at Croft, his first success of 2026 to add to his maiden victory in the Winter Series last year. The R Racing talent has shown his speed as the best qualifier on the grid at present, having finished in the top two in each of the last four sessions.
Reigning champions R Racing have had great strength in depth in their line-up this season. Max Murray and Red Bull Junior Team driver Melvin Kalousdian have both picked up a pair of overall podium finishes so far, while Sebastien Leusch secured a best-ever result of fifth at Croft.
Another team impressing at the sharp end of the grid has been Performance One Motorsport. The team and their driver Josh Watts both celebrated their maiden victory at Oulton Park, while Noah Young is a regular top ten finisher and Dominic Darling has been a multiple class-winner in the Freshman class.
MK Racing team-mates Bailey Doughty and Ethan Brass have also picked up Freshman victories. Addison Smith (MDD Motorsport) has impressed this year with multiple top ten finishes, while Andrew Robinson (E3 Sport) and Vicky Farfus (Paradine Competition) have that milestone in their sights.
In the Elite Motorsport ranks, Daniel Oliver has shown his podium potential with a pair of top three qualifying results. Henry Cameron and Vladislav Tomenchuk have been regular top ten finishers, while Ian Danicska impressed at Croft with a seventh-place finish in his debut race.
Samuel Del Gaudio (Paradine Competition) returns to the grid this weekend looking to build on his maiden points finish at Oulton Park in May. Anesu Maphumulo (RABsport Racing) scored his first points at Croft meanwhile, and will be hoping to carry momentum from that into Zandvoort.
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Provisional Timetable:
Saturday 11 July: Qualifying 11:20; Race One 16:30
Sunday 12 July: Race Two 10:15; Race Three 14:50
Times CEST – minus one hour for UK.
All three races will be streamed live on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel, while live timing and results will be available at www.getraceresults.com.
