With three champions still to be crowned, it’s all to play for in the final round of the 2025 Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT Championship season at Donington Park this weekend (04/05 October).
In the headline PRO class, Archie Clark (MDD Racing) is the clear title favourite. He stamped his authority on proceedings with five wins from the opening seven races, including a double victory in the season opener at Donington Park back in April.
The Ginetta Junior graduate continued his challenge with two more podium finishes last time out at Brands Hatch. Those results mean he holds a lead of over 40 points at the top of the class, ensuring that the destiny of the PRO title is firmly in his control.
Robert Cronin (Elite Motorsport) is one of only two drivers who could stop Clark emerging as PRO champion. The Irishman has been a front-running force throughout the season and has kept his title hopes alive with a run of five podium finishes in the last six races, including two impressive victories.
The other candidate is Jack Collins (E3 Sport), having kept himself in mathematical contention with a sensational performance at Brands Hatch. He took a perfect clean sweep of the pole positions, race wins and fastest laps, and will need to reach similar heights this weekend to emerge as champion.
The PRO-AM honours will go the way of either Harry Gamble (Elite Motorsport) or Nick White (Raceway Motorsport). As well as being the dominant forces in the class this year, both drivers have been fighting it out at the front of the field with multiple overall podium finishes each.
Gamble, who secured a brilliant outright victory at Oulton Park, holds a 31-point lead as he targets his first Ginetta title to follow in the footsteps of his brothers Tom and George. White won’t give up without a fight though as looks to secure a third consecutive Ginetta crown.
No less than five drivers are mathematically in contention for the AM class title at the start of the weekend’s action. Realistically though, it looks set to come down to a duel between Ali Juffali (Elite Motorsport) and Luke Shaw (Raceway Motorsport).
The GT Academy graduates have been closely-matched all season and come into the weekend split by just a single point after dropped scores. They have both picked up four class wins each, with Shaw outscoring his rival on podium finishes by nine to seven.
The other three mathematical contenders would need huge points swings to go in their favour. They are Brands Hatch class winner Colin White (CWS), Donington Park podium finisher Emma Tomlinson (DTO) and regular front-runner James Rolling (Fox Motorsport).
Outside of the title protagonists, two drivers to watch at the head of the field are Hadley Simpson (Xentek Motorsport) and Cameron Pratt-Thompson (SVG Motorsport). Simpson has accumulated four PRO podium finishes so far, while Pratt-Thompson scored a sole podium at Silverstone and has impressively qualified in the top three for six of the last eight races.
In PRO-AM, Alex Duncan (Xentek Motorsport) took a memorable maiden class win and overall top six finish last time out. Mike Taylor is one to watch as he returns to the grid, having taken an overall pole position and top three result in the Donington Park season opener.
Oliver Fordham (Fox Motorsport) will be targeting a breakthrough AM class podium finish this weekend, while 2024 AM vice-champion Peter Mangion (Elite Motorsport) is back for his third outing of the season. One of the biggest grids of the year is rounded out by two championship debutants; experienced Ginetta racer Marc Elman (SVG Motorsport) and Ginetta Junior graduate Felix Livesey (Orion Racing).
Provisional Timetable:
Saturday 04 October: Qualifying 14:10; Race One 17:27
Sunday 05 October: Race Two 15:30
Both races will be streamed live on Ginetta’s YouTube channel, while live timing and results will be available via TSL Timing.
