Current Ginetta Challenge Champion Stuart Pearson is offering motorsport fans the chance to have their say on the livery and name of his brand new G40 race car.

The G40, which was Stuart’s prize for laying claim to the G20 championship win last season after a four year slog for the title, is currently waiting for it’s final design to be chosen ahead of the track debut at Oulton Park on 7th April.

Stuart Pearson of SPR said; “We are thrilled that the public will be choosing the design for the SPR racing car this year. I’m sure they will come up trumps and it will look great!”

Speaking on this exciting opportunity for Ginetta fans, Championship Co-ordinator Max Gregory added; “It’s great that Stuart Pearson Racing are already engaging with motorsport fans by offering them the chance to design and name a 2012 racing car. It’s a great way to bring our sport closer to the people who enjoy it most.”

Fans can vote for their favourite design on the Ginetta Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/ginettacars) with the winning design being determined on the number of ‘likes’ for each picture.

We will select the winning design on Monday 27thMarch, before opening it up to the public to name the car.

The person who submits the successful namesake will be invited to join Stuart Pearson Racing as their official guest at a race weekend of their choosing.

It would be very easy to assume that my old G20 is basically the same as G40, but such an assumption would render my chance at any sort of podium finish in this years’ Ginetta Challenge hopeless.

The first thing Stuart Pearson Racing did, was to start to take the car back to it’s bare bones, interior, exterior and mechanics all got a strip-down and once over. A thorough nut and bolt check was carried out and a general service of everything mechanical, or with moving parts was carried out.

Whilst the car was in bits, Dave from 2007bc Photography saw the opportunity to pop up with his camera and take a few arty HDR shots of the car – as you can see, dust and scratches are a plenty when you look closely at the photos…. that’s another job to add to the list then!

With a Ginetta sized space to fill, my garage was looking rather empty, so it’s a good job it was only a couple of days till I got a phonecall from Ginetta HQ telling me that my G40 was ready to be collected.

A busy weekend has seen me tinkering and generally trying to form a bond with the car that will form the majority of my race time over this years’ race season.

As you can see, the glorious gloss black paintwork of my new G40 is in need of some decals from supporting sponsors. If you’d like to talk to us about becoming a race sponsor, please do so by visiting our contact page.

The awards dinners sees drivers from the championships mingle, and be given awards for their achievements throughout the Championships.

 A small gallery of the evenings festivities are shown below: