Tom Walker and Luis Beilicke head into the penultimate round of the 2026 Ginetta GT Academy season at Donington Park (05-06 September) with the opportunity to end the weekend as the GTA and Rookie class champions respectively.
Both Beilicke (Want2Race) and Walker (E3 Sport) have put together a brilliant run of results across their first seasons in Ginetta competition, and they each took a big step towards championship glory with brilliant triple class victories at Snetterton last time out.
In his first-ever season of car-racing, successful sim-racer Beilicke has consistently been the quickest driver on the grid. He’s won ten races outright, as well as topping the timesheets in four of five qualifying sessions and setting new GT Academy lap records at every round so far.
Walker has been hot on Beilicke’s heels throughout the season so far, consistently finishing inside the overall top three. The former Mazda MX-5 racer has posted a 100% podium record in the GTA class, with eight victories along the way putting him in pole position for the title.
The competition for the GTA crown comes from Joe Ostholthoff (Want2Race) and Connor Blackburn (Performance One), while Ian Beaumont (SVG Motorsport), Ben Wiseman (Want2Race) and Ash Young (Performance One) still have a shot at the Rookie honours.
Ostholthoff has impressively finished on the GTA podium in every race bar two this year, with four victories including a superb hat-trick at Croft. Blackburn enjoyed his best event of the season last time out meanwhile, picking up his maiden class pole positions and overall top three results.
Beaumont lies second in the rookie points, with the successful short-oval racer securing multiple overall top three results and ten class podiums. Wiseman has joined him as a regular visitor to the class rostrum, picking up seven trophies so far.
Young has shown great progress this season, celebrating a class podium finish in each of the last three events at Oulton Park, Croft and Snetterton. Faye Goff (Want2Race) has been another to make big steps forward this year and has her sights set on a first piece of silverware.
Will Fallon (Privateer) is one to watch in the GTA category, having notched up six class podiums across an impressive debut Ginetta campaign. A new addition to the class this weekend is Andrew Robinson (E3 Sport), moving up from Ginetta Juniors to make his senior racing debut.
Returning to the class grid this weekend are two contenders in the Chairmans Cup class; Robin Grimwood (E3 Sport), one of the most experienced drivers in series history with 50 starts to his name, and Ben Cooke (Want2Race) for his second outing of the year.
An exciting weekend for the Wright family sees father and son racing together on the grid for the first time with Want2Race. Allan is contesting his second GT Academy season and has taken a best result of fifth in GTA on multiple occasions, while son Charlie makes his debut in the rookie class.
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Provisional Timetable:
Saturday 05 September: Qualifying 09:10-09:25; Race One 14:35-14:55
Sunday 06 September: Race Two 10:50-11:10; Race Three 17:00-17:20
All three races will be streamed live on SRO’s GT World YouTube channel, while live timing and results will be available via TSL Timing.
