6th January 2009

More news from Phil: He's sent us a picture of John Morton at Las Vegas.

22nd December 2009

News from Phil

Hi Guys , Happy Holidays

Took me a while to get this info to you but better late than never and "good News "is always welcome.

My fellow G4 racer Rob Forbes won this very distinguished award this summer at the Monterey Historics

The Rolex Awards, which recognize outstanding performance and presence in each group,

You know this as a very posh and distinguished event held the same weekend as the Pebble Beach Concours de Elegance in Monterey every August

In his own words

"Yes Phil I won the Rolex award for my Group: Race Group 3B. One car is awarded a Best Presentation and Performance award (a Stuben Crystal Eagle) for each Group. It’s a very nice memento and as I have been running Vintage Races since 1984 (and always in Ginettas) but have never before won an award of any kind…. I was shocked. It was also special in that this year was the year or the Porsche and it was not awarded to Porsche even though we had many 911’s and several 904’s in my race! Hurray for the British".

Hope to hear from you soon ,

Phil

USA Ginetta Reporter

6th October 2009

News from Phil

For an amazing performance by Jeff Kline in Ray Thompson's G4 take a look at this link. He comes from the back of the grid to lead the race in 3 laps, trouncing Cobras, and Mustangs etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaTzxCHgRO4

My car ran in a more conventional run group with lotus 26R's,Porsche 908's ,elvas,914 gts with slicks etc. I qualified 7th out of 45 in first session which was my first time on his course and for the pre crossflow 1500 VS the twin cams and I was also running the hoosier street td tires. During the qualifying race I lost the rear diff side pinion gears (from an old sprite) and had to come in.

The track was very bumpy being a well used airstrip and really loaded the axles in the corner from tarmac changes. I had to start in the back for the main event and passed about 30 cars in the first 6 laps.The track then went to full course yellow until the checker. If you have some patience I com by just after the 7 minute mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUrfrRuF6Ag&NR=1

26th June 2009

News from Dan:

We finally solved the
problem we were having, which had gotten really bad. The idle had gone
all to hell, I would lose power at speed, it ran way too rich, and of
course the throttle was not very sensitive especially at low revs so
upshifting was rough. It took a one-hour phone call between my
mechanic Frank Cerrone and me with Webcon guys Alan Collins and Peter
White yesterday, from Frank's garage with the car near the phone. It
turns out the connections to the two water-temperature sensors were
switched. The one for the radiator fan and temp gauge was attached to
the bottom sensor (left side of the engine); the one for the computer
was attached to the top. Frank had done this when he installed the kid
in 2004 because the top sensor jack and the wire he plugged into it
were both blue, and the others were black. Turns out he had to plug
the black-hooded wire into the blue jack and vice versa. Also Frank
adjusted the TPs to the correct voltage. Spadge, it's like a new car.
It purrs. And the temp gauge works properly and the radiator fan goes
on. I had basically stopped driving the car. Now it's a dream.

23rd February 2009

Ginetta G50 Cup regulars Tony Hughes and Richard Sykes will introduce the Ginetta G50 to America and race in The Sebring Endurance Challenge at Sebring, Florida over March 7^th and 8^th.

The Speedworks Motorsport team-mates will fly out with the Cheshire-based outfit and their two Ginetta G50s they raced in the G50 Cup last year. The duo with their new-for-2009 wing equipped machines will participate in a number of races over the weekend including a 3-hour race and a night race.

Speedworks Motorsport team owner Christian Dick will also make the journey and will share a car with Hughes for the three-hour race and possibly the night race.

“I've looked at some in-car footage from Sebring and I must say, it does look quite daunting” said Hughes. “I am really looking forward to racing around this historic world famous circuit and would like to say that one of the reasons I took up motor racing in 2007 was to race at famous race tracks.

“I've done all of the circuits in the UK and last year took the G50 to Spa in Belgium where we had a ball. Racing in America will be an experience I will remember for a very long time!”

The Sebring Endurance Challenge is organised by HSR (Historic Sportscar Racing) and the American Race and Travel company. The cars will be racing in a “Slicks and Wings” class of the Historic GT races which mostly consists of ex Le Mans cars and similar. Technically only cars in production up to 2003 are eligible for the class. However because this will be the Ginetta G50’s American debut, organisers have given special dispensation to allow them to race.

For more information see www.hsrrace.com

For more information on the Ginetta G50 see www.GinettaCars.com

For further information please contact:

Stuart La-Ffin, Marketing Manager - 07810 774124, Stuart.La-ffin@Lntgroup.co.uk

Charlie Kemp, Sales Manager – 07760 336 884, Charlie.Kemp@GinettaCars.com

29th October 2008 More stuff from Phil - wearing a particularly stylish hat.

Click here.

Ginetta Heritage in the USA

Hi Spadge, Due to another problem with a defective Clutch disk I was forced to take my 240Z to Infinion (Sears Point) raceway.

Good news is that I was able to get a first place finish !

San Francisco Region SCCA

Peter Gerhardt racing the white G4 (who was at last years event) came in second in the under 2 liter class.

1	228	JOHN S MAHALL	13	25:26.378		1:55.794	4	78.346
			YELO, 62 LOTUS, COTATI,CA, SF, SEVEN / 1500
2	71	PETER GERHART	13	25:35.057	8.679	1:56.602	5	77.803
			WHITE, 63 GINETTA, PORTLAND,OR, OR, G-4 / 1600
3	9	PAUL INGRAM	13	26:15.938	49.560	1:58.631	11	76.472

The weather was fantastic . Since the track was in NAPA Valley You could smell the grapes being crushed in the Air.

OUR EVENT IS ONE MONTH AWAY

Those Ginetta Mad Pitt guys have been out at Monterey last weekend. They saw the Maroufs G12 and one of John Weinbergers cars, which started 6th, finished 5th behind 3 Corvettes and a 26R in a field of 40 Cobras, Alfas, Porsches etc.

etc.

Phil M should be making the long trip to Sears for the SCCA race September 21st

You can see the G4 land speed record attempt at www.122mph.com but we can't lift an image to make a nice link, despite the site having many of our photographs on it!

"22.07.08 Dear Spadge;

Just thought I’d drop a quick note telling you I earned my first career victory at BeaveRun weekend before last, in the Ginetta. I had just a super run. I also qualified P2 for the PVGP, but my race was rained out. Attached is a picture of the car and me.... My friend is in the yellow G4 bought from Tony Ingram.

Regards, Ralph"

The main man organising things in the USA at the moment is Phil Mendelovitz.

He masterminded the fantastic Ginetta event at Buttonwillow last September.

This year there will be another event at Las Vegas in October and we'll put all the info on here and have a bulletin board area for it.

Other exponents of the marque include: Jacob Shalit

Jacob bought this G12 from us and had it restored beautifully by Tony Ingram.

In the past he's also had a lovely G4R from us, but it was sold to John Weinberger.

Said Marouf has this G12 in his Ginetta collection.

Dan and Julian Pitt are completely Ginetta mad and were most excellent hosts!

These guys are preparing their G4 for not one but two land speed record attempts this year! They are looking for some sponsorship............................................................

The chassis is fine but the body had to be stripped.