The Latest Breaking News from British GT

British GT has always been a series for the ‘gentleman driver’ – the non-professional competitor in a driver line-up who often funds the race seat. While their professional counterparts are all usually separated by no more than a few tenths, the quality of the amateur can vary significantly, so they…

The GB3 championship lead changed hands again at Zandvoort last weekend, Tymek Kucharczyk moving back to the top as the fight intensified in mixed conditions on the Dutch coast.

Now things are getting interesting. Yes, Max Verstappen won again last weekend, but McLaren’s pace at a circuit many expected to be prime Red Bull territory suggests we have some fine Formula 1 battles to come in 2024. Lando Norris’s early fight with Verstappen in Spain – hard but just…

Hitech GP duo Tymek Kucharczyk and Will Macintyre both scored victories on a weekend of challenging weather conditions for the GB3 field at Silverstone. Kucharczyk took a double pole in a damp qualifying and the Polish racer led the opening contest while his team-mate Macintyre lost second at the start…

Vanthoor will contest the three-hour race as a one-off for Century Motorsport aboard its BMW M4 GT3 on the 26-28 April, amid WEC duties for the German manufacturer in the hypercar class.

The Silverstone 500 on 27-28 April will end Mardenborough’s 10-year absence from British GT, after he competed for RJN at Brands Hatch in 2014 having driven the full season with them two years prior.

In the Oulton Park media centre, a colleague gave a hysterical laugh when hearing of the GT4 winners from British GT’s opening round. It was the sudden realisation that he is older than both drivers’ ages combined – and my colleague isn’t exactly ‘old’. 

Reigning British Formula 4 conqueror Louis Sharp grabbed the early ascendancy in the GB3 Championship by taking a win on his debut at last weekend's opening round at Oulton Park.

“It’s going to be tough,” states Jonny Adam. “With 19 cars in GT3, good line-ups, the quality I think has gone up another level from last year. And there’s good returning teams that know their baseline of where they should be.”

Fellow BTCC victors Dan Lloyd and Stephen Jelley have already revealed plans to make Carrera Cup comebacks this season and they will now be joined by Gamble, who endured a frustrating tin-top campaign in a Speedworks Motorsport Toyota last year.

The 29-year-old tested Aston Martin’s AMR21 at the Hungaroring last year as she became the first female since 2018 to drive a modern F1 car.