Beechdean AMR takes GT3 Overall and Pro-Am championship lead How fitting is it for an ice cream firm to thrive during a hot, humid sprint event at Oulton Park? Beechdean AMR claimed its first British GT pole since the 2023 Donington decider and its first overall podium since Brands Hatch earlier that same season. Andrew […]
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Optimum Motorsport’s Morgan Tillbrook and Ben Barnicoat secured a controlled victory in Race 2 at British GT’s Oulton Park event this afternoon. It was the #77 McLaren GT3 Evo’s first race win of the season and Barnicoat’s second Oulton Park victory since securing GT4 victory back on his British GT debut in 2018. Barnicoat started […]
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Barwell Motorsport’s Hugo Cook held off Ross Gunn in Beechdean’s #7 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo to secure the Race 1 victory today at Oulton Park. Cook and his teammate Collard won the first of two 60-minute bank holiday sprint races, from second place on the grid in their #63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2, repeating […]
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Barwell explains extraordinary Silverstone fire & rapid rebuild Barwell suffered misfortune at the Silverstone 500 when a freak fuel line failure hampered their chance of race victory at the season opener last month. The #63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 caught fire with two-time champion Rob Collard at the wheel and 1 hour and 12 minutes […]
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Andrew Howard claimed pole position for the opening sprint race at Oulton Park, taking Beechdean’s first British GT pole since the 2023 Donington Decider. He extracted a 1:34.098 lap time from his #7 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo, beating another outright two-time British GT champion, Rob Collard, by a marginal 0.058 seconds in his […]
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Hugo Cook topped the pre-qualifying session for Barwell Motorsport at British GT’s Oulton Park sprint race meeting. Barwell looked strong as a whole with all three of their Lamborghinis in the top five. The Squadra Corse customer team are keen to add to their nine wins out of the 20 races held here since 2016. […]
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Marcus Clutton set the fastest lap time in his Orange Racing by JMH McLaren 720S GT3 Evo during the opening British GT free practice session at Oulton Park. His 1:32.05 put the #67 McLaren at the top of the time sheets early in the 60-minute session, beating the #63 Barwell Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 of […]
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After the three-hour Silverstone 500 season opener, the 2026 British GT Championship heads to Oulton Park this Bank Holiday weekend for the second race meeting on the calendar. Located in Cheshire, this venue is perfect for British GT’s sprint race format due to its narrow, undulating layout, which contrasts sharply with the flat, high-speed Silverstone […]
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Silverstone 500 winners Innovation Racing have outlined their desire to fight to win the GT4 championship title in their maiden British GT campaign as the next step in a long-term goal to compete at Le Mans. At the 2026 season opener at Silverstone they became the first team to claim both pole position and race […]
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Former British GT champion Ian Loggie will return to the championship and contest the remainder of the 2026 season with 2 Seas Motorsport. Loggie returns to 2 Seas after previously racing with the British-Bahraini team during the 2023 and 2024 British GT seasons, with whom he achieved one victory and six podium finishes. The Scotsman […]
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Race Highlights Catch up with Sunday’s race with the official highlights package on YouTube. Century Motorsport leads championship on GT3 comeback Century Motorsport’s #44 BMW M4 GT3 Evo leads the overall and GT3 Silver-Am class championship standings — as well as GT3 Teams’ — after its first GT3 British GT appearance since 2024. On […]
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Optimum Motorsport’s Garnet Patterson and Yasser Shahin claimed a dramatic victory in a caution-disrupted Silverstone 500, using sharp strategy and late-race track position to steer the #3 McLaren GT3 Evo from ninth on the grid to the top step. The Australian pairing seized control in the final hour after perfectly timing their last pit stop […]
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Tributes to Julian ‘Julze’ Batten-Dale The British GT paddock and BRSCC have paid tribute to their long-standing pit lane manager and official, Julian Batten-Dale, who passed away earlier this month. His duties spanned over a decade and involved liaising with teams, conducting pre-event pit lane checks and managing pit lane safety with race control and […]
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Paradine Motorsport’s Darren Leung and Dan Harper charged to a dominant pole position in qualifying for the British GT’s Silverstone 500 season-opener. The 2023 champions masterfully claimed the top honours in the session, with Leung having set an early benchmark in his session, almost a second clear of two-time champion Rob Collard in his #78 […]
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Reigning British GT champion Kiern Jewiss topped the timesheets on his final flying lap at the checkered flag of pre-qualifying for the Silverstone 500 season opener. 2 Seas Motorsport continued their strong momentum from the opening free practice session by putting two cars in the top three again, with Barwell’s #63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 […]
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Reigning vice-champion Hugo Cook set the quickest lap time during the first British GT free practice session of the 2026 season at Silverstone. He set the benchmark with a lap time of 1:57.908 in the #63 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2, ahead of two of 2 Seas’ Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evos. The session was briefly […]
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The 34th season of the SRO-promoted British GT Championship gets underway this weekend at Silverstone Circuit, with the championship’s blue riband Silverstone 500 returning to the Grand Prix layout as the season-opener for the first time in 25 years. A 29-car grid comprising 18 GT3 and 11 GT4 entries will tackle the 5.891km circuit across […]
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Darren Leung and BMW factory driver Dan Harper are aiming to become the first drivers to win the Silverstone 500 for a third time this weekend, as part of Paradine Competition’s expanded two-car GT3 entry, made in a bid to defend its crown. By winning last year’s edition, the 2023 British GT champions matched Lamborghini […]
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West Surrey Racing is no stranger to winning, with a record 137 BTCC victories and 18 titles behind it. But 2026 marks a bold new chapter for the famous British team, which is stepping into the British GT Championship’s fiercely competitive GT4 class for the first time. And all eyes are on how quickly it […]
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Switching from motorsport’s most historic touring car championship to one of Europe’s most competitive GT racing series was never the initial plan for Ronan Pearson. But with one race victory from three years in tin-top machinery, the young Scot has decided to press the reset button and try his hand in the British GT Championship’s […]
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Reigning British GT champions Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss have confirmed a one-off appearance at the Silverstone 500 next week. The duo secured the Overall and Pro-Am GT3 championship titles last year, albeit without victory at the blue riband event when they were beaten by 0.6 seconds against 2023 champions Darren Leung and Dan Harper. […]
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Yasser Shahin and Garnet Patterson will join Optimum Motorsport for the 2026 British GT season-opener next week on 25-26 April, the Silverstone 500. The Australian duo will share driving duties during the three-hour enduro in the #3 McLaren GT3 Evo, as Mike Price and Callum Macleod are competing in the PalmaVela Regatta yacht race. Shahin […]
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News reached DSC yesterday via the British Racing & Sports Car Club of the untimely passing of long-time pitlane manager for the British GT Championship Julian Batten-Dale, known to all as ‘Julze’. Julze was the man in charge of pitlane safety for the British Championship for over a decade and fulfilled that vital role alongside […]
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A huge turnout! Tuesday’s Media Day combined the Ginetta Junior Championship, Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT Championship, and Ginetta GT Academy action with the SRO-run British GT championship. Some 3000 fans were in attendance. Free tickets offered by SRO for the day were rapidly snapped up, half term holidays saw plenty of youngsters amongst the attendees […]
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Marcus Clutton was the fastest driver in yesterday’s British GT Championship’s Media Day at a dry and sunlit Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit. He set a lap time of 1:57.972 in the #67 Orange Racing by JMH McLaren GT3 Evo during the third and final test session of the day. The day saw three hours and […]
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The 2026 British GT Championship season is shaping up nicely, with the release this morning of the provisional full-season entry list ahead of the track action during the annual Media Day today. 26 cars are set to contest the full season, with 15 cars in the GT3 ranks and a further 11 in GT4. On […]
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Century Motorsport is returning to the British GT Championship’s GT3 field for the 2026 season, contesting the Silver-Am category with Jonathon Beeson and Charles Clarke. In addition to its ‘Chomp’-liveried #24 BMW M4 GT4 Evo, Century will enter the #44 BMW M4 GT3 Evo. This is a significant change for the team behind Dan Harper […]
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