Thursday 9th April 2009

TeamPH Set For Second Season

Head down to Oulton Park this Easter Monday to support the PistonHeads Ginetta G20

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If you are sitting in your living room slightly too indulged on Easter eggs and wondering what to do with your extra day of freedom from work, then PistonHeads has the answer.

This weekend sees the start of the British GT, F3 and Texaco Havoline Ginetta Championship at Oulton Park, where PistonHeads will be entering a G20 in the latter championship for the second year running.

TeamPH had a mixed season last year but managed to bag three podiums throughout the season, so this year we'll be looking to challenge for the title. The final licks of paint are being added to the PistonHeads trophy cabinet in anticipation for this season's racing, and to aid the pot hunting, TeamPH has enlisted the help of a top Ginetta racer, Matt Nicol-Jones.

Matt runs Academy Motorsport and is the current British GT4 Champion and 2007 G20 Champion, so he knows a thing or two about Ginetta racing. Matt will be on hand to prepare the TeamPH car and help PistonHeads' RacingPete improve on the 8^th place achieved last season and the 3^rd place in the Winter Championship.

So, if the TV repeats have got too much and you are missing your motorsport fix inbetween the F1 races and the touring cars, get out on Easter Monday and come and say 'hi' to TeamPH. It'll be good to have some support, and I am sure we can find a tea or coffee to help ease the chocolate digestion.

As recession hits motorsport this year, TeamPH has to say a massive thanks to our sponsors who have answered our own G20 summit to get PH on track again: Oracle Finance and YourRacingCar.com

^{Follow the team's progress throughout the season on Twitter - http://twitter.com/racingpete}

[Northern-Loop]

Great News Pete!

[L100NYY]

Wish you all the best of luck guys, great news

Will try and get along to some of the meetings to show my support

[GBRM]

Good luck Pete and say hi to your Dad for me.

[mattsayle]

I was down at OP yesterday and saw the PH car but didnt say 'hi' as I was being a chicken lol.

Will see you at some point this weekend, no doubt.

Edited by mattsayle on Thursday 9th April 13:23

[mattsayle]

mattsayle said:

I was down at OP yesterday and saw the PH car but didnt say 'hi' as I was being a chicken lol.

Will see you at some point this weekend, no doubt.

[mattsayle]

Ooops, bugger. sorry for the wierd qoute post thingy.

[chum racing]

Good Luck Pete!

Don't think we'll be able to make this one, but will try and get to one of the races later in the season.

[skeggysteve]

Good luck Peter and have a great time.

[Hunnie79]

Good luck buddy - try to get it off the line (it helps - I promise)!

[RacingPete]

Hunnie79 said:

Good luck buddy - try to get it off the line (it helps - I promise)!

I wont ask Fulvio for advice on starts then

[Gizmo!]

Best of luck!
I'd assumed you weren't doing it this year, after seeing the car for sale on the Ginetta website...

[skeggysteve]

Gizmo! said:

Best of luck!
I'd assumed you weren't doing it this year, after seeing the car for sale on the Ginetta website...

Good point, so Peter is it last years car or have you got a nice shiny new one?

[RacingPete]

skeggysteve said:

Gizmo! said:

Best of luck!
I'd assumed you weren't doing it this year, after seeing the car for sale on the Ginetta website...

Good point, so Peter is it last years car or have you got a nice shiny new one?

It is the same car as last year which is good as I know the car and have worked on the setup quite a lot on it.

Thank you for all the best wishes, all I need now is to go and stick it on pole today

[Allyc85]

Good luck guys

[Munter]

Planning on going to Oulton on Monday. So I'll keep my eyes open for the car!

[skeggysteve]

Munter said:

Planning on going to Oulton on Monday. So I'll keep my eyes open for the car!

Time table for the day here -pdf download

You can't miss Peter's car, it's black with PH stickers all over it!



MST shows that he qualified on the fifth row for both races - so watch out for him storming through the field, he is very good at that!
I think it's his first race driving a car run by a team so it will take him time to get used to it.

I went to a couple of races last year first one at Cadwell and would recommend it to anyone.

Get into the paddock and find Academy Motorsport and just ask where Peter is. He is very approachable and will welcome your support.
As I have said, so many times, being involved with a team/driver (even it's only being a PHer) will make watching the race much better.

Enjoy your day Munter and make the effort to find RP and say hello.

[Munter]

We went. We saw. And Pete. Well. We gave him a 5 and a 6 for his spins.

He did a good job in the 2nd race getting back up to 7th after an early spin put him almost at the back. Even the commentators said he'd come from knowhere to 7th.

[skeggysteve]

Yes, Peter is very good at the spin manoeuvre

You should have seen the Snetterton one, coming round the Bombhole he went round (more than once IIRC) and once it was pointing in the right direction just carried on. That got a 10/10 from us