BAT Acquired by Ginetta Cars

BAT Acquired by Ginetta Cars

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gtsralph

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144 months

Saturday 3rd November 2018
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From BaT

November 2018 Newsletter

The more eagle-eyed BaT members will have noticed a lack of newsletters recently. That doesn't mean we haven't been the usual busy-bees in the BaT office - as the announcement below will explain!

Ginetta Cars Ltd Acquire BaT

BookaTrack.com Ltd are delighted to announce the acquisition by Ginetta Cars Ltd at the end of the year.

The business will continue in the same format, offering an improved track day calendar and car storage services from our facility at Donington Park. The workshop will continue to service and repair Caterhams, but the showroom will be rebranded to retail Ginetta sportscars.

Sarah Leroux maintains a shareholding and will continue in her role as Managing Director. "Having spent 20 years building this business to where it is now, it makes me very proud that a company of the size and stature of Ginetta Cars Ltd would see the benefit in having BaT as its shop-front and with the additional resources available from such a well established and successful group we will be able to make significant improvements at BaT very quickly."

Lawrence Tomlinson (owner of Ginetta Cars Ltd and LNT Group Ltd) said "We're delighted to support Sarah and BaT in the next chapter of their success. BaT have an impressive customer base and also a strong reputation in the sportscar market for creating an exciting experience. We look forward to supporting Sarah in improving this further for all of BaT's customers. It's our pleasure to welcome BaT into the Ginetta family."

Rental Fleet Changes

As part of the change in ownership, the existing Caterham track day rental fleet will be replaced with Ginettas for the 2019 season. As a result, we have a number of ex-rental Caterhams available for sale

SpudLink

5,784 posts

192 months

Saturday 3rd November 2018
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I recieved that email this morning. Interesting turn of events.

I will be interested in the cost of renting a G40 for a day at Donington. The website still says they do Caterham rental.

JeremyH5

1,584 posts

135 months

Saturday 3rd November 2018
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Two thoughts; 1. What about Jonny? 2. Link with Blyton?

Turn7

23,608 posts

221 months

Saturday 3rd November 2018
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JeremyH5 said:
Two thoughts; 1. What about Jonny? 2. Link with Blyton?
Plus one on Jonny, a true Gent.....

gtsralph

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144 months

Saturday 3rd November 2018
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Turn7 said:
Plus one on Jonny, a true Gent.....
According to Companies House filings, all shares were transferred to Sarah Laroux on September 30. Currently John and Sarah Laroux are the two remaining directors. Looks like some restructuring was being undertaken, perhaps in preparation for changes.

Turn7

23,608 posts

221 months

Saturday 3rd November 2018
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Plus- the BAT Cats are all for sale now too....

Steve H

5,283 posts

195 months

Sunday 4th November 2018
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Jonny hasn't been on any of the days I've been at for quite some time now, I believe he's been concentrating on another business interests.


I guess BaT will be doing a lot of trackdays at Blyton from now on laugh.

marclurr

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75 months

Tuesday 6th November 2018
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Will you be running the CDX events in a similar format? I did one at Silverstone a few years ago and it was brilliant. Was planning to book my brother and myself on next year as part of his birthday.

Steve H

5,283 posts

195 months

Tuesday 6th November 2018
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^^^^ if that's aimed at me I don't work for BaT, just that I've been instructing for clients on a few of their days recently and hadn't seen Jonny there.


gtsralph

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1,186 posts

144 months

Tuesday 11th December 2018
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BaT Facebook..

"This week our founding Director Jonny Leroux said goodbye to BookaTrack. We would like to thank him for his years of service and dedication, he will be sorely missed. Jonny will no longer be part of BookaTrack so we kindly ask all clients to no longer make contact with him regarding matters relating to the business. We're sure you'll all agree after many years of service he deserves to put his feet up!"