Douglas Motorsport are please to welcome Gus Burton for the 2019 Ginetta Junior Champsionship. Gus competed in five meetings across the 2018 championship with a number of top ten finishes, including a 6th place in the final round at Brands Hatch

Gus returned for the Winter Series and produced a superb display, picking up a pair of pole positions, leading all four races at one stage and coming away with a maiden podium finish in the series.

Through his racing Burton supports The Sparkle Foundation, whereby every penny of corporate sponsorship he raises is being used to improve the life chances of vulnerable children in Malawi. As well as raising money for the charity this way, Burton also promotes awareness by running a dedicated charity livery on his Ginetta G40.

Gus Burton: “After spending my races last season adapting to the rear wheel drive Ginetta G40, building on my racecraft and overall pace, I’m confident that this season I’m capable of achieving some great results in the Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship.”

Wayne Douglas, team principal: ““We are really happy to have Gus with us for his first full season in the Michelin Ginetta Junior Championship. After getting his first pole positions and leading all four races in the Winter Series, we’re confident he can be running at the front from round one.”

The Ginetta Junior Championship returns on April 6th at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit.

It was 24 hours to remember for Stuart Middleton. After winning the 2018 Sunoco Whelen Challenge, the youngest driver ever to win the competition, Stuart’s reward was a drive at the famous Rolex 24 race at Daytona International Speedway with the Action Express Racing (AX Racing) team, driving the Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi. Racing drivers from all areas of motorsport have been competing in this prestigious sports car race since 1962.

From his time here at Douglas Motorsport, it was clear he would go on to do great things in the sport. The 2015 Ginetta Junior scholarship winner, Ginetta Junior Winter Series champion in 2015 and overall vice champion in 2016, Stuart was competing at the front from the very start of his career and we always knew he’d go on to big things. This result at Daytona is going to open more doors for the 18 year old who is certain to go on to achieve great things in his future career.

Well done Stuart from all here at Douglas Motorsport.

A video of the 2017 Ginetta Junior Championship in which Douglas Motorsport were the Rookie (Kiern Jewiss) and Team Champions.

Daniel Harper

2 race wins for Daniel Harper on the final weekend of the BRDC British F3 championship capped off what was a fine season for Dan and for the entire Douglas Motorsport team.  Even though the two wins weren’t enough for Daniel to secure second place in the overall championship, it doesn’t deter from the fantastic season Dan has had, most notably the second half of the season where he won twice on 3 separate race weekends and was rarely off the podium.

Daniel finished on the second highest amount of points over the course of the season, 2 points behind Tom Gambles total, but after penalties and dropped points are taken into account he dropped to 3rd place overall. However, this was a great result for Harper who was rookie of the year in 2016 with Douglas Motorsport.

Tom Canning, another. rookie finished off his season with another visit to the rookie podium. Tom has shown consistent improvement throughout the season and will be one to watch next season

Silverstone was the location for rounds 21,22,23 of the Ginetta Junior Championship at Snetterton and it was here that Kiern Jewiss built up an unassailable lead in the Rookie Championship to become the Rookie Champion, 2017. Congratulations to Kiern and all of the Douglas Motorsport team on this success.

It’s the second year in succession that the Rookie Champion has come from the Douglas Motorsport team. In 2016 Dan Harper claimed the title and in 2015 Stuart Midleton became the Rookie vice-champion before going on to win the 2015 Winter Series.

Kiern will be officially crowned Rookie Champion at the last round of the championship at Brands Hatch on Aug 30/Sep 1

It wasn’t a perfect weekend for Kiern by any means, after taking the lead in race 1 the rain started to come down and contact from another car caused damage to Kiern’s Ginetta which meant he started to slip down through the field, eventually finishing in 9th position, but still enough to earn a Rookie podium finish.

Race 2 and Race 3 saw Kiern finish in 5th and 4th place respectively, picking up two Rookie wins, enough to give him the overall Rookie title.

Tom Canning continued his impressive performances by claiming another rookie podium in race 2. Race 1 saw Tom finish in 10th position, missing a rookie podium by 1 place. Another 10th position in race 2 saw him take 3rd place on the Rookie podium, with team-mate Jewiss on the top step.  These two 10th place finishes meant Douglas Motorsport had all three cars in the top 10 in the first two races.

Dan Harper began the weekend with a podium finish – 2nd place in race 1. Race 2 saw Dan drop back to 14th position after some contact at the front of the field. But, he was able to brilliantly fight his way back to eventually finish in 6th place, and gain some valuable points as his title rivals finished P1 and P2. In race 3 Dan was maintaining 5th place for most of the race until he made some fantastic overtaking moves towards the end of the race, eventually finishing P3 and achieving another podium.

Dan remains in 3rd place in the overall championship. He has a mathematical chance of winning the overall championship, but 2nd place is a possibility, as Dan is only 13 points behind in 3rd place.

The final rounds of the championship take place at Brands Hatch on August 30th and September 1st.