{"id":2416,"date":"2023-01-20T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginetta.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:34:30","slug":"joe-wheeler-signs-with-toro-verde-for-his-second-season-racing-in-british-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginetta.com\/us\/news\/joe-wheeler-signs-with-toro-verde-for-his-second-season-racing-in-british-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Wheeler Signs With Toro Verde For His Second Season Competing In British GT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Wheeler will return to the British GT grid this season will mark his fourth year of racing with Ginetta. Since making his racing debut with us in 2021, he has climbed the motorsport ladder. Joe&#8217;s been progressing from junior racing into endurance GT racing.\u00a0He made his British GT debut last season in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginetta.com\/our-cars\/g56\/g56-gt4\/\">Ginetta G56 GT4 car<\/a>. For this, he teamed with former Ginetta Junior graduate, Freddie Tomlinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Toro Verde are geared up to make their mark on the grid this season with a two-car line up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joe Wheeler, said:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u201cWorking with Toro Verde and Ginetta in my second season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishgt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British GT<\/a> is really exciting.<\/em> <em>I know we have great potential\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jules Westwood, Toro Verde Team manager, said:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>&#8220;Toro Verde are really looking forward to running young up and coming GT racer Joe Wheeler in a Ginetta in British GT. We will run two GT4 Ginetta cars.<\/em> <em>We&#8217;re currently exploring options for a driver to partner Joe.<\/em> <em>We&#8217;re sure with a partner,<\/em> <em>we can give him the results that he wants and deserves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Wheeler will return to the British GT grid this season will mark his fourth year of racing with Ginetta. Since making his racing debut with us in 2021, he has climbed the motorsport ladder. Joe&#8217;s been progressing from junior racing into endurance GT racing.\u00a0He made his British GT debut last season in a Ginetta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joe Wheeler Begins His Second Season In British GT Racing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joe Wheeler has signed with Toro Verde ahead of his second season in British GT racing, competing in Ginetta&#039;s G56 GT4.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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