Performance One Motorsport will enter an expanded five-car entry across the Ginetta Junior Championship and GT Academy in 2026.
Spearheaded by Jack Roberts, Performance One Motorsport enjoyed an impressive debut season in Ginetta racing last year. The Surrey-based team combined a full-season entry in the Juniors and a debut appearance in the final round of the GT Academy campaign.
Jack Roberts – Team Manager, Performance One Motorsport: “2025 marked our first season as Performance One Motorsport, and it gave us a strong foundation to build on. The progress we made across the year was huge.
“Heading into 2026, we’re incredibly excited about the strength of our driver lineup, alongside what is a very solid coaching and mechanical department. We’ve put the right people in place across the team, and our ambition is clear, we’re going racing to win and to bring home silverware.”
Noah Young will be returning for a second year in the Juniors after an impressive debut in 2025. The 15-year-old from Chesterfield scored a best result of seventh overall in the main season, before picking up a maiden podium finish in the Winter Series at Silverstone.
Noah Young: “I’m really looking forward to my second season in Ginetta Juniors. Last year was about learning and building experience. This season the aim is simple, to fight for wins and be right in the championship battle.”
Josh Watts joins his team-mate in returning for a second Junior campaign. The Boston-based talent, son of Le Mans 24 Hour winner Danny Watts and ex-BTCC racer Fiona Leggate, showed great progress last year and picked up a few overall top ten race results.
Josh Watts: “This season our expectations to do well are high and we expect to be in the championship battle from round one.”
Completing the team’s Junior entry will be Dominic Darling. The Scotsman is stepping up to make his car-racing debut this year after a promising karting career, which culminated in him competing in the Senior Rotax class of the 2025 Ultimate Karting Championship.
Dominic Darling: “I can’t believe that 2026 is the year I finally get to drive a real Ginetta car – an actual race car, not a kart, not a simulator, but a machine built for the track. Part of me keeps laughing at how surreal it feels, like someone handed a teenager a spaceship and said, “Go on then, don’t crash it.”
“This is the first step on my ultimate goal toward being a GT driver, and every session in the Ginetta G40 is another page in the story I’ve been working toward. I’m equal parts excited, nervous, and dangerously obsessed with downforce.
“Racing as part of Performance One makes it even better. Jack and Charlie are already throwing knowledge at me like confetti! Technical tips, mindset shifts, the occasional roast, and I’m ridiculously grateful for it and this opportunity.
“They believe in what I can become, not just what I’ve done so far, and that’s exciting. So here’s to 2026: full commitment, full throttle, and, if I do accidentally invent a new racing line, just pretend it was on purpose. You need to be odd to be number one. And I definitely am a little odd.”
Ash Young will join his son Noah in the Performance One Motorsport awning this year, as he competes full-time in the GT Academy following a debut outing in the 2025 season finale. In his first-ever weekend of racing, Young impressed with a rookie class podium finish in race three.
Ash Young: “I’m really excited to be stepping into the Ginetta GT Academy next year. It’s an incredible platform to develop as a driver, and I’m looking forward to working hard, learning as much as possible, and pushing for strong results.”
Joining him on the GT Academy grid will be a newcomer to Ginetta racing, Connor Blackburn. He makes the switch to GT competition after four years in the BRSCC Fiesta ST240 Championship, during which he scored multiple podium results and a pair of top six championship finishes.
Connor Blackburn: “Joining the Ginetta GT Academy represents a huge opportunity and next step in my racing career. It’s a highly competitive environment and I’m coming into it with the ambition to work with the team to compete at the front of the grid.
“I’m looking forward to the intensity of the racing, the strength of the field, and the challenge of extracting everything from myself and the car across the season.”
The Ginetta Junior Championship is the UK’s longest running and most prestigious Junior series, offering the first step on the motorsport ladder for 14 to 17-year-old racing drivers as they compete on the support bill for the British GT Championship.
The Ginetta GT Academy gives drivers of all experience levels the opportunity to enjoy entry level GT racing. The series offers an uncompromising package of high-performance racing at an affordable cost, with the exposure of competing on British GT Championship events.
