Fiesta drivers in Ginetta GT5 move

Fiesta frontrunners Danny Harrison and Josh Steed will graduate with Mutation Motorsport to the Ginetta GT5 Challenge next season, racing under the Altima Academy banner.

Steed, who was third in this year’s Fiesta Junior Championship, tested a Ginetta G40 at Bedford Autodrome last month with coaching from British GT4 race winner David Pittard. Multiple Fiesta Championship race winner Harrison is also set to have a run in the rear-wheel-drive machine imminently.

The Altima Academy has been formed by Mutation boss Greg Mcilwraith and Antony Weeks, who will drive a third G40 in the Am class having contested some Castle Combe Saloon and Hot Hatch races in a Peugeot 106 this year.

“Antony likes the idea of promoting talent rather than budget,” said Mcilwraith. “He’s working with me to find the funding. We’re trying to go against the grain and do something about all those talented drivers that are out there who don’t have the funding.

“The GT5 Challenge is the strongest grid in the UK, competition-wise, so if you want to prove yourself and get on the ladder to something big, that’s where you’ve got to be.”

The team plans to compete in another Ginetta series too.