![]() ![]() Beneath that, there’s a very stiff, strong, tubular steel chassis with a 3.7-litre Ford V6 engine at the front. ![]() It’s brutish, and beautiful (brutiful?): a low, wide, front-engined GT car with muscular proportions and fibreglass bodywork. And the GT Academy is Ginetta’s recently introduced series aimed at rookie and intermediate adult drivers. That chassis has since been further evolved into this car, the G56. ![]() ![]() And in between, Ginetta’s G50 model, and G55 evolution, has become one of the most successful GT4 racing chassis in the category’s history. At the top of the adult motorsport tree, Ginetta has raced in LMP1 at Le Mans and still produces successful prototypes for racing in LMP3 and beyond. For teenagers, the Ginetta Junior championship is now established as one of the must-drive routeways for stars of the future, with alumni including Lando Norris and Jamie Chadwick. Ginetta, the Leeds-based road and, predominantly, race car manufacturer, has become one of the pillars of British motorsport since the marque came under the control of Lawrence Tomlinson in 2005. (In a good way.) I’ll explain the tears in a bit but, first, the car: GTA stands for GT Academy, and it represents one of the first legs on the Ginetta racing ladder. This is the Ginetta G56 GTA, and it made me cry. Automotive Daily’s colleagues at evo take to the track to experience life in the Ginetta Academy first-hand. ![]()
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