2010 Ginetta G50 Cup

The 2010 Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup was the third Ginetta G50 Cup. The season began at Thruxton on 4 April and finished after 28 races over 10 rounds at Brands Hatch on 10 October, supporting rounds of the British Touring Car Championship.[1]

2010 Ginetta G50 Cup
Previous: 2009 Next: 2011
2010 ToCA Tour:
2010 BTCC
2010 Formula Renault UK
2010 Ginetta Junior Championship
2010 Porsche Carrera Cup GB
2010 Renault Clio Cup UK

Despite scoring 38 fewer points overall than title rival Carl Breeze, it was Dynojet's Frank Wrathall who became champion after a successful season in which he took five overall victories, as well as taking six other class victories in which he was the first championship-registered finisher. Ten points behind on dropped scores was Total Control Racing's Breeze, an improvement on his third place championship finish behind Nathan Freke and Wrathall in 2009. Breeze took nine overall victories, but championship hopes were thwarted by 40 penalty points picked up during the season. Third place went to Century Motorsport's Benji Hetherington, who took two overall victories and two other victories, with double Croft winner Tom Sharp (IDL) and the second Century Motorsport car of Benji's brother, Freddie Hetherington, who finished on the podium twice.

Outside the top five, Wrathall's Dynojet team-mate Adam Morgan took the other overall victory to be claimed during the season – at Croft – while Matt Bell took a class win at Thruxton for United Autosports. Nine wins were taken by guest drivers during the season; Nigel Moore claimed five victories in eleven starts for Tockwith, Jonathan Adam won a race at his home circuit of Knockhill in the Ginetta Cars entry, denoted as the "guest car", while Rob Huff took a hat-trick of victories at the opening round at Thruxton when the guest car was run by Dynojet for one event only.

Teams and drivers
Team No. Drivers Rounds
HHC Motorsport 2 Stephen Tyldsley 4–6
Optimum 2–3
20 1
7 Mark Davies 1–8
17 Neil Houston 8
25 Nigel Moore 5
55 Gary Simms 4
Total Control Racing 3 Carl Breeze All
75 Joachim Ritter All
Tockwith 5 Alice Powell 1–5
25 Nigel Moore 7–9
CDR 5 Alice Powell 6
7 Mark Davies 9–10
74 Chris Dittmann 1–4, 7, 9–10
Barwell Motorsport 8 Julien Draper 1–7, 10
28 Ben Jackson 7
40 Jon Barnes 5
41 Matt Allison 6
88 Matt Draper 3
Team GCR 9 Rachel Green 1–3
12 Dave McGuire 4
99 Tom Dunstan 2
IDL 10 Tom Sharp All
11 Rod McGovern 4
69 Jack Stanford 2
Century Motorsport / Triton Digital 16 Benji Hetherington All
32 Freddie Hetherington All
Speedworks Motorsport 20 Tony Hughes 2–4, 6–7, 9–10
21 Charlie Butler-Henderson 4
48 Ron Johnson 6, 9–10
United Autosports 23 Matt Bell 1–2
FML 27 Aaron Williamson 6–10
Century Motorsport 1–3
84 Phil Broad 1–2, 4, 6–7, 10
85 Mark Jessop 9
Ginetta Cars 50 Kieran Vernon 2
Simon Hill 3
Martin Donnelly 4
Stefan Hodgetts 5
Adrian Newey 6
Giles Dawson 7
Jonathan Adam 8
Alistair Barclay 9
Dave Newsham 10
Dynojet Rob Huff 1
66 Frank Wrathall All
67 Adam Morgan All
Matt Blyth Motorsport 73 Dan Denis 1, 4, 6–7, 9–10
98 Chrissy Palmer 9
CWS 78 Colin White All

Calendar

The series was contested over 28 races held at 10 rounds[2] and supported the British Touring Car Championship at all rounds. All rounds were held in the United Kingdom.

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1 Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire 3 April Rob Huff Rob Huff Rob Huff Dynojet
R2 4 April Frank Wrathall Rob Huff Dynojet
R3 Frank Wrathall Rob Huff Dynojet
2 R4 Rockingham Motor Speedway, Northamptonshire 24 April Frank Wrathall Carl Breeze Frank Wrathall Dynojet
R5 25 April Carl Breeze Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R6 Frank Wrathall Frank Wrathall Dynojet
3 R7 Brands Hatch (GP), Kent 1 May Carl Breeze Carl Breeze Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R8 2 May Frank Wrathall Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R9 Mark Davies Frank Wrathall Dynojet
4 R10 Oulton Park, Cheshire 5 June Carl Breeze Carl Breeze Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R11 6 June Stephen Tyldsley Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
5 R12 Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire 19 June Tom Sharp Frank Wrathall Tom Sharp IDL
R13 20 June Stefan Hodgetts Tom Sharp IDL
R14 Nigel Moore Adam Morgan Dynojet
6 R15 Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit, Norfolk 7 August Carl Breeze Stephen Tyldsley Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R16 Frank Wrathall Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R17 8 August Frank Wrathall Frank Wrathall Dynojet
7 R18 Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire 21 August Chris Dittmann Frank Wrathall Frank Wrathall Dynojet
R19 22 August Chris Dittmann Benji Hetherington Century Motorsport
8 R20 Knockhill Racing Circuit, Fife 4 September Jonathan Adam Jonathan Adam Nigel Moore Tockwith
R21 5 September Nigel Moore Nigel Moore Tockwith
R22 Jonathan Adam Jonathan Adam Ginetta Cars
9 R23 Donington Park, Leicestershire 18 September Chrissy Palmer Nigel Moore Nigel Moore Tockwith
R24 19 September Benji Hetherington Nigel Moore Tockwith
R25 Nigel Moore Nigel Moore Tockwith
10 R26 Brands Hatch (Indy), Kent 9 October Tom Sharp Carl Breeze Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R27 10 October Tom Sharp Carl Breeze Total Control Racing
R28 Carl Breeze Benji Hetherington Century Motorsport

Championship standings
Pos Driver THR ROC BHGP OUL CRO SNE SIL KNO DON BHI Total Pen Drop Pts
1 Frank Wrathall 2 2 7 1 2 1 Ret 4 1 2 2 4 5 4 2 4 1 1 Ret 2 2 3 6 10 2 4 3 DNS 737 10 727
2 Carl Breeze 5 3 4 2 1 2 1 1 13 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 6 4 10 9 13 9 3 1 1 3 775 40 18 717
3 Benji Hetherington 8 5 11 3 Ret 3 3 3 2 6 4 10 8 8 16 11 Ret 3 1 3 3 4 2 2 DSQ 2 2 1 606 35 571
4 Tom Sharp 4 18 8 4 6 6 2 2 Ret 11 Ret 1 1 5 6 2 12 10 3 9 7 Ret Ret 4 4 Ret 12 4 488 488
5 Freddie Hetherington 14 11 17 12 7 4 9 8 11 9 5 12 10 10 4 5 3 11 5 5 6 7 Ret 5 11 5 5 2 446 15 5 426
6 Adam Morgan DNS 12 9 5 3 15 5 7 4 15 10 6 6 1 8 3 Ret 7 4 6 5 5 3 13 9 Ret DNS DNS 435 10 425
7 Joachim Ritter 12 7 5 7 12 9 13 11 Ret 18 16 11 11 6 14 10 8 13 15 7 11 8 5 12 10 9 9 9 340 15 4 321
8 Mark Davies Ret 16 Ret 6 17 16 Ret 13 9 4 15 8 7 Ret 5 DSQ 9 6 Ret Ret 12 11 4 8 6 6 6 6 314 15 299
9 Colin White 16 10 10 8 10 Ret 7 15 Ret 7 14 14 12 9 11 7 5 9 13 Ret 8 Ret 10 7 8 11 11 13 297 297
10 Chris Dittmann 3 4 3 Ret Ret 13 12 10 3 3 6 Ret 9 Ret 11 7 3 4 10 288 288
11 Aaron Williamson 13 14 16 16 16 10 6 5 7 12 6 4 8 7 Ret 9 6 12 DNS 12 Ret NC 11 247 15 232
12 Julien Draper 9 8 12 11 5 11 Ret 9 6 19 8 13 13 11 Ret DNS 10 15 10 7 10 8 234 10 224
13 Stephen Tyldsley 11 9 6 10 8 5 4 6 Ret 5 3 15 14 Ret 7 Ret 6 231 15 216
14 Dan Denis Ret Ret DNS 14 12 13 8 7 4 8 7 3 5 8 8 Ret 191 191
15 Phil Broad 10 17 14 13 Ret 14 13 7 3 Ret Ret 5 2 10 13 7 179 179
16 Alice Powell 15 13 13 Ret 14 8 8 12 5 10 Ret 7 Ret 7 10 9 Ret 163 163
17 Tony Hughes 15 Ret 18 11 16 12 17 13 15 Ret Ret 16 14 9 15 15 12 14 12 126 126
18 Ron Johnson 17 13 13 11 17 13 13 15 14 70 70
19 Rachel Green 6 15 15 9 9 12 DNS DNS DNS 69 69
20 Matt Bell 7 6 2 Ret 10 DNS 84 30 54
21 Neil Houston 10 13 10 38 38
22 Jon Barnes 9 9 Ret 32 32
23 Tom Dunstan Ret 13 7 25 25
24 Mark Jessop 8 14 Ret 24 24
25 Rod McGovern 16 9 18 18
26 Matt Draper Ret 17 10 17 17
27 Gary Simms Ret 11 10 10
28 Ben Jackson Ret 11 10 10
29 Jack Stanford 14 15 17 18 10 8
30 Matt Allison 9 Ret 11 22 15 7
31 Dave McGuire 20 Ret 2 2
32 Charlie Butler-Henderson 12 Ret 10 10 0
33 Chrissy Palmer Ret 6 DSQ 21 35 −14
guest drivers ineligible for points
Nigel Moore 5 4 Ret 12 Ret 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0
Rob Huff 1 1 1 0 0
Jonathan Adam 8 4 1 0 0
Stefan Hodgetts 2 2 2 0 0
Kieran Vernon Ret 4 Ret 0 0
Dave Newsham DNS 7 5 0 0
Simon Hill 10 14 8 0 0
Martin Donnelly 8 Ret 0 0
Giles Dawson 14 12 0 0
Adrian Newey Ret 12 Ret 0 0
Alistair Barclay 14 16 14 0 0
Pos Driver THR ROC BHGP OUL CRO SNE SIL KNO DON BHI Total Pen Drop Pts
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References
  1. "Ginetta G50 Cup - The Best Yet?". ginettacars.com. Ginetta Cars. 2010-03-31. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  2. "2010 Michelin Ginetta G50 Cup: Sporting, Technical and Commercial Regulations and Registration Document" (PDF). ginettacars.com. Ginetta Cars. p. 5. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
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