Hillspeed Team Speaks Out Over Ginetta Junior Driving Standards

Richard Ollerenshaw, team principal of Ginetta Junior Championship squad Hillspeed, has spoken out regarding what he deems "completely unacceptable" driving standards in the category off the back of a bruising weekend of racing at Donington Park.The third and fourth rounds of the 2011 season this past weekend, 16th/17th April, certainly featured a high level of on-track contact with a number of drivers caught-up in incidents not of their own making - including Hillspeed's own Struan Moore.Having championed the series since expanding the team's operations at the end of 2009 to join the burgeoning one-make category, Ollerenshaw is now becoming seriously concerned at a "diminishing level" of driving standards and he's seeking moves to clamp down on the culprits.He said: "Some drivers are completely out of control at the moment and that's not portraying the championship as it should be. Ginetta Junior is a fantastic series but the standards so far this year at Brands Hatch and Donington have been appalling. My belief is that there's a certain amount of pressure on the young drivers to race in a certain manner and that's not right."Drivers are leaning on others like they see in touring cars and blatantly running people off the road which is bad sportsmanship and extremely dangerous. I'd like to see much harsher penalties being dished out for those who aren't driving and racing in an appropriate manner."Ollerenshaw added: "We know Ginetta is working hard to try and eradicate bad driving and to penalise those drivers who continually push the fringes of what's acceptable and those who simply go completely over the top. Hillspeed wholeheartedly supports any such moves and I hope by drawing more attention to this we'll get the championship back to the fantastic series it truly is."

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