Douglas Motorsport have signed the first female competitor for the all new 2013 BRDC Formula 4 championship - BMW Talent Cup star Malgosia Rdest.
Having started her career in the Polish Amateur Karting League, Malgosia marked herself out as being a future star with regular success right from the start. With a number of victories in the KF2 category in Poland and Italy during 2010 and 2011, Malgosia qualified for the Formula BMW Talent Cup for the 2012 season. Having enjoyed the step up to true single... Read more...
Reigning Ginetta Junior Team Champions Douglas Motorsport will be aiming to retain their title in 2013 having signed Irish star Keith Donegan just weeks ahead of the season opener at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit.
The Navan native had a mixed rookie season in the Ginetta Junior Championship in 2012 having graduated from a number of successful seasons Karting across Europe. Keith's highlight of the season came in race one at Rockingham where he made his debut visit to the Ginetta Junior podium achieving a seas... Read more...
Reigning Ginetta Junior Team Champions Douglas Motorsport are delighted to announce that 2012 Ginetta Junior Vice-Champion Sennan Fielding will join them for the inaugural running of the BRDC Formula 4 Championship.
Sennan Fielding graduated from Karting into Ginetta Junior in 2011 as his prize for becoming the debut winner of the Ginetta Scholarship. Quickly Fielding made his mark in the series as one to watch and returned in 2012 as one of the championship favourites. As the season unfolded, Sennan ... Read more...
2012 Ginetta Junior Team Champions Douglas Motorsport, have today announced that they will step up to the Ginetta GT Supercup for the 2013 season. Having proven to be one of the best teams in the Junior paddock in 2012, Team Principal Wayne Douglas is confident they can continue this form.
First to sign up with Douglas Motorsport and continue his successful partnership from 2012 will be Ginetta Junior front runner Andrew Watson. The young Northern Irish driver graduated from the Ginetta Junior Irela... Read more...
Douglas Motorsport Team Principal Wayne Douglas attended one
of the most highly anticipated racecar launches of 2013 at Autosport
International. MSV Boss Jonathan Palmer pulled the covers off the brand new
Formula 4 where it was unveiled in front of the championship’s fourteen teams
amongst other invited guests.
With a striking championship themed colour scheme, the
Formula 4 certainly rewarded those who got behind the championship from the
early stages, not least Wayne himself who... Read more...
Ginetta Cars held their annual gala awards night at the
Birmingham Hilton Hotel on Friday 11th January. Hosted by Chairman
Lawrence Tomlinson, all of the season’s winners were in attendance to collect
their awards across all of Ginetta’s main UK & Irish Championships.
Douglas Motorsport was well represented with both team
drivers Andrew Watson and Niall Murray in attendance. Despite entering the
championship as a rookie team, lead by Wayne Douglas they finished the season{nl... Read more...
On the back of a strong weekend in Silverstone where Andrew Watson claimed his maiden Ginetta Junior victory and championship contender Niall Murray returned to the podium in race two, Douglas Motorsport had a strong but not fully secure Ginetta Junior Teams Championship lead approaching the final weekend of the season in Brands Hatch. Despite being one of the newest teams in the championship, Douglas Motorsport has proven to be one of the best teams this season with podium finishes at almost every round. Read more...
Coming from a disappointing weekend at their home circuit in Rockingham just two weeks ago, Douglas Motorsport and their drivers Niall Murray and Andrew Watson were keen to move on and return to the podium in Silverstone. Having lead the Ginetta Junior
Teams Championship for most of the season, they
now found themselves having just
slipped into second by the smallest of margins.
The weekends opening
free practice time sheets would show Andrew Watson leading the w... Read more...
Coming from a disappointing weekend in Rockingham some two weeks
previous, Niall Murray was keen to get back to winning ways coming to
the home of the British Formula 1 Grand Prix, Silverstone. Still very
much in the hunt for the 2012 Ginetta Junior Championship title, Murray
needed to ensure he had a strong points finish to stay within reach of
current points leader Charlie Robertson.
Murray
opened the weekend reasonably pleased with his pace in Friday and
Saturday... Read more...
Rockingham based Douglas Motorsport has today announced that they are the latest team to commit to the BRDC Formula 4 Championship with an initial order of two cars for the 2013 championship.
Lead by Wayne Douglas, a former British and Irish Formula Vauxhall Champion himself, Douglas Motorsport has emerged as one of the sensations of the 2012 Ginetta Junior Championship, becoming one of the most successful teams in the championship in their rookie year. Well known for their very successful driver developm... Read more...
On
the back of a weekend that came good with second in race two at Knockhill in
August, Niall Murray approaching Rockingham, the home circuit of his Douglas
Motorsport team, knew that its race wins he needed to put him back at the top
of the championship table.
Friday’s
practice was a wet affair and once again highlighted the controversial tyre
debate as the leading drivers ran new wet tyres for each of the sessions.
However despite running on older tyres, Niall... Read more...
Rockingham based Douglas Motorsport is ready to extend its lead in the Ginetta Junior Teams
Championship as they approach the next rounds of the Ginetta Junior Championship at Rockingham this
weekend. Currently the most successful team in the championship this season with drivers Niall Murray
and Andrew Watson, Douglas Motorsport remain one of the newest teams in the championship. Starting
out the season on a high with a win in the opening round at Brands H... Read more...
With the Ginetta Junior Championship now well under way having resumed after the summer break at Snetterton some two weeks previous, teams and drivers made the long trip to Scotland’s Knockhill Race Track for rounds 13 and 14 of the championship. Coming from a double podium finish in Snetterton, Douglas Motorsport driver Niall Murray now knew that more of the same was required including a race win to keep his championship challenge alive, but more importantly move into the series lead.
The 2012 Ginetta Junior Championship resumed after a seven week summer break at the Snetterton 300 circuit in Norfolk. Murray and his Douglas Motorsport team were keen to get back on track after the lengthy break and started their preparations for the weekend with some pre-event testing on the Wednesday before the event.
Struggling during the pre-event tests, Murray made some setup changes to his car before Saturday’s qualifying which paid dividends giving him a much better balance go... Read more...
As the Ginetta Junior Championship moved to Croft for rounds 9 & 10, Douglas Motorsport driver Niall Murray was brimming with confidence coming from a superb double victory weekend at Oulton Park some 2 weeks earlier. Now leading the championship, Murray was keen to build on this lead before the championship takes a 6-week mid-season break.
Free practice and qualifying were reasonably positive for the young Dubliner finishing 3rd in free practice before his qualifying run earned him 3rd on the g... Read more...
After a 6 week break, the Ginetta Junior Championship’s newest team Douglas Motorsport were keen to get back in action at Oulton Park with Niall Murray and Andrew Watson. Having already tasted victory in the opening two weekends of the championship at Brands Hatch & Donington Park with Niall Murray along with championship novice Andrew Watson also tasting success with a podium finish in Donington, they were keen to sample further success at Oulton Park.
Murray put his car 4th on the grid fo... Read more...
After a weekend of mixed emotions at Donington Park that included yet another fantastic win for the young Irishman, Douglas Motorsport's Niall Murray was keen to get his Ginetta Junior Championship challenge back on course as the championship moved to Thruxton. Having completed the pre-event test some 3 weeks previous to the event due to noise restrictions at the Hamshire venue, Murray was confident in himself and his car that he could remain at the front of the field at the fastest race circuit on... Read more...
Douglas Motorsport's Niall Murray continued his strong form from Brands Hatch and scored another fantastic victory at round 3 of the Ginetta Junior UK series at Donington. This leaves Murray in second position in the championship with everything to play for at the next round in Thruxton on the 28/29 of April.
Preparation for qualifying was not exactly smooth for Murray. Free practice was a little frustrating as budget restrictions meant Murray was forced to sit out the two additional practice ... Read more...
Ginetta
Junior Championship newcomers Douglas Motorsport based at Northamptonshire’s
Rockingham Raceway have started the 2012 season in fine style leaving Brands
Hatch leading both the drivers and teams championship after 2 rounds. Fending
off some of the more established teams, the Douglas Motorsport line up of Niall
Murray and championship new comer Andrew Watson put on a superb display of
driving throughout the weekend. Despite being new comers to the series, Douglas
Motorsport is f... Read more...
2011 Ginetta Junior Championship front
runner and younger brother of ex BTCC driver Eoin Murray, Niall Murray
is set to return to the championship with a new team mate and a new
team! Former single seater ace turned leading driver coach Wayne Douglas
has setup a new race team aptly named Douglas Motorsport. Joining Niall
in the team will be championship rookie Andrew Watson. Having competed
at the front of the Ginetta Junior Ireland Championship for the past two
seasons, Watson is sur... Read more...
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