Ginetta Junior racer Bilinski set for ban after receiving 12 licence points
Ginetta Junior driver Roman Bilinski is facing a three-month ban after receiving 12 penalty points on his licence in the first half of the year.
It has been an eventful few months for rookie Bilinski, who won the first race at Donington Park but was later excluded because of a wheel bearing oil seal technicality. He has since switched from In2racing to Alastair Rushforth Motorsport.
But Bilinski has also been involved in a number of incidents and contact with Tom Emson in the first Oulton Park race at the end of last month took him to 12 licence points.
Team boss Rushforth is yet to see the latest incident but Bilinski could appeal that decision and may also appeal to the National Court to have the ban reduced, as Motorsport UK rules permit.
“The question we’ve got is does the penalty fit the crime,” said Rushforth. “We went into Oulton Park with a different mindset because of the bad luck we had in the previous races.
“We needed to start finishing races and said ‘let’s not look at winning races outright, let’s go back a notch and look at rookie podiums’. He qualified fifth but had a 10-place penalty from Croft. Starting 15th, you’re in the thick of it.”
Bilinski didn’t contest the second race at Oulton with Rushforth saying: “We’re going to speak to Motorsport UK so didn’t want to run the risk of anything happening in race two.”
Rushforth added that Bilinski would be devastated if he is banned for three months – which would rule him out of the Snetterton, Thruxton, Knockhill and Silverstone events.
“This is all he lives for and puts everything into it,” he said.