Ginetta Junior Championship LatestTollbar Racing’s Thomas Carnaby made a welcome return to the top step of the Ginetta Junior Championship podium during the 13th round of the season at Snetterton Circuit yesterday, Saturday, 12th July – the 2008 title contender emerging victorious after a thrilling three-way scrap with team-mates George Richardson and Josh Hill.Locking out the podium with a dominant team effort, the first of the weekend’s two outings at the 1.95-mile Norfolk track proved to be a dream result for the Tollbar squad which will be hoping for a similar result during Sunday’s 14th round with Carnaby, Hill and Richardson taking the first three places on the grid in that order.“That was a fantastic race to win”, said a delighted Carnaby at the conclusion, “We all had to be careful, with the three of us being team-mates none of us wanted to make contact. It really was an unbelievable race and great for the team with a one, two, three.”For today’s nine lap encounter, Hill proved to be the star of qualifying with a best lap of 1m 27.925 seconds (79.92mph) coming with only his second attempt. Richardson ended the session just 0.096 seconds shy with the second quickest time with Carnaby a couple of 10ths of a second further adrift.Championship leader Dino Zamparelli was the best of the rest with the fourth quickest time, the multiple race winner happy with his progress having only previously completed around 16 laps in total over the course of the rain affected test session on Friday and this morning’s 15-minute free practice, having never driven at Snetterton before.During morning practice, Daniel Lloyd set the pace in his Tockwith Motorsport run British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) Stars of Tomorrow car but in qualifying he was only able to grab sixth on the grid alongside fifth placed Dominic Pettit.At the start of round 13, pole-sitter Hill got away well and held the lead from Richardson through Riches and Sear for the first time. Richardson didn’t plan on hanging around though and passed his team-mate into the Esses to seize the initiative.Further behind, Aaron Williamson enjoyed a good opening lap to climb from eighth on the grid to fifth position ahead of Lloyd as fifth place starter Pettit saw his involvement in the race end with an opening lap accident.Into lap two, Richardson led over the line from Hill, Carnaby, Zamparelli, Williamson and Lloyd with Alice Powell making great inroads in eighth position – having qualified down in 12th place.Drama would follow at the end of the second tour though when Zamparelli had a spin at Russell Chicane, dropping the series leader to the tail of the field and meaning he would have to fight tooth and nail to salvage a strong finish – which he did.Into lap three, Carnaby seized second from Hill on the run through Riches and while it initially looked as though race leaders Richardson and Carnaby would begin to pull away, rookie Hill had other ideas and closed in again on lap four.At the same time, Jake Farndon saw any hopes of a top six result go begging when he had a spin at Russell Chicane. The youngster would eventually come home in 13th place.On lap five, Carnaby really started to apply pressure to Richardson but the latter held firm and impressively kept both of his team-mates at bay. That was, until, the ninth and final lap of the race when Carnaby produced a great move at Sear to take the lead which he held to the chequered flag.Lloyd, meanwhile, finally got by Williamson for fourth place on lap six having looked the quicker of the two for a number of laps. He tried to catch the top three during the final third of the race but they were just too far ahead. The recovering Zamparelli did well to climb back into the top positions and he managed to snatch fifth place from Powell on the last lap – sixth was, nonetheless, a great result for the promising young lady racer. Williamson, who had run pretty strongly early on, slipped back to ninth in the end behind Ashley Craig and Fergus Walkinshaw.The 14th round of the season will take place at 15.05 today, Sunday, 13th July, with Carnaby on pole position ahead of Hill. Richardson and Zamparelli comprise row two with Pettit and Lloyd fifth and sixth on the grid respectively.Provisional 2008 Ginetta Junior Championship Positions (after Rd13):

1st Dino Zamparelli, 372pts; 2nd Thomas Carnaby, 309pts; 3rd Daniel Lloyd, 276pts; 4th Josh Hill, 231pts; 5th Jake Farndon, 216pts; 6th Dominic Pettit, 212pts