The Ginetta G56 GTA was chosen by Freddie Flintoff as his Car of the Year, following his emotional journey going through the Ginetta driver development programme, culminating in him making his race debut in a Ginetta G56 GTA.<\/p>\n
While going through this experience, Freddie fell in love with the G56 GTA and has announced it as his Car of the Year, just a few days ahead of the BBC Top Gear TV feature which captures his training experiences and race debut. The TV feature airs for the first-time during episode four of the latest Top Gear series, this Sunday, 5th<\/sup> December at 8pm on BBC One.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Matt Lowe, CEO Ginetta Cars, commented<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s a huge honour to win a Top Gear Car of the Year Award – a first for our company. We are also really pleased that Freddie has chosen the G56 GTA over all the other incredible cars he has driven this year and that he absolutely loved driving it!<\/em><\/p>\n “It is a testament to the vision of our Chairman Lawrence Tomlinson and the hard work of the whole team at Ginetta in developing the car and our driving training programmes, for which we are well known within the industry.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t say too much about Sunday\u2019s TV programme, but I can reveal that we were honoured to be approached some time ago, on the recommendation of another Top Gear presenter, who shall remain nameless… The brief was simple: to put Freddie through our driver development programme and give him his race debut. We were of course delighted to oblige.<\/em><\/p>\n “As everyone who has been through the programme knows, it\u2019s not a walk in the park becoming a racing driver – especially on an accelerated timescale. I have to say we were all super impressed with the way Freddie put his heart and soul into it and really applied himself, just like you would expect from someone who comes from a professional sporting background. I think Top Gear on Sunday will be well worth finding time to watch to see how Freddie got on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Commenting on why he chose the Ginetta as his Car of the Year, Freddie<\/strong> said:<\/strong> \u201cThe one car in which I experienced more emotions in than any car I\u2019ve ever driven in my life was the Ginetta. I absolutely loved it. It was one of those cars that the more time I spent in it, the more I enjoyed it, which is very different to what I\u2019m usually like. I just wanted to stay in it and keep driving it and driving it and driving it<\/em>. This <\/em>was a fully-fledged racer, and it was making noises that I\u2019ve never heard from a car before.<\/em><\/p>\n