#british gt championship

[viper-motorsports]

Under a chilly sky in Oulton Park UK, Beechdean Motorsport flex the rubber on their new N°97 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo as they prepare for the opening round of the 2024 British GT Championship Easter weekend.

#aston martin vantage amr gt3 evo #british gt oulton park #beechdean motorsports #oulton park circuit #british gt championship #2024 britishgt #aston martin vantage

[britishsportinglegends]

Nigel Mansell.

#formulaford #formula ford #britishformulathreechampionship #british formula three championship #europeanformulathreechampionship #european formula three championship #europeanformulatwochampionship #european formula two championship #formulaone #formula one #ppgindycarworldseries #ppg indy car world series #btcc #british touring car championship #fiagtchampionshipgt2 #fia gt championship gt 2 #grandprixmasters #grand prix masters #lemansseries #le mans series #24hoursoflemans #24 hours of le mans #uptonuponsevern #upton upon severn #worcestershire #motorracing #motor racing #nigelmansell #nigel mansell

[zikbitume]

‘ @BritishGT  #BritishGT

#car #ford #mustang #Intelligent Money British GT Championship #BritishGT #spa francorchamps

[f1]

British GT Championship 2022 | Round 7 - Spa-Francorchamps LIVE

Round 7 of the 2022 British GT championship - LIVE from the legendary Spa Francorchamps Subscribe: http://the-race.com/youtube_subscribe Website: http://the-race.com/ Twitter: @wearetherace Instagram: @wearetherace Facebook: http://facebook.com/wearetherace Podcasts: http://the-race.com/podcasts Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, please also hit subscribe to show your support so we'll keep doing what we're doing. https://www.the-race.com http://www.twitter.com/wearetherace via THE RACE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTxfj0BzL-MaCy-YUqPRoQ

#F1 #British GT Championship 2022 | Round 7 - Spa-Francorchamps LIVE #Formula 1

[f1-birb]

omg those pictures how LONG has lando known jon

they're at about a decade now, maybe even more actually

Jon grew up around motorsport, loves it, used to race until he couldn't any more, his older brother Scott is still a driver currently competing in the British GT Championship, and when he couldn't race himself he still knew he wanted to do something related to it

he started off doing a business and law degree and realised he didn't really enjoy that at all, so took what he could and moved to a sports degree instead and qualified as a PT, massage, etc and worked with the drivers he could while he was also working doing mechanicing in karting

it was through karting he was aware of Lando and how quick he was, and when he needed to do a work placement for his degree he wanted the great 'project' of working with Lando so he bit the bullet and approached Lando and his manager and the rest is history

here's a longer video explaining Jon's role, how he met Lando, how it all works, etc but here's just the bit cut to him talking about meeting Lando:

#lando norris #jon malvern #jontent #lando and jon lore #birb speaks

[itracing]

Vantage GT3 to make British Racing Debut with Hawkins

Aston Martin Racing aims to extend its phenomenal legacy of success in the British GT Championship as it joins forces with partner teams Beechdean AMR, Blackthorn Racing and the newly-created Forsetti Motorsport, to bring five brand new Vantage GT3 and GT4s to three classes during 2024.

Among the headline acts participating in this formidable line-up will be Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team Head of F1 Academy and Driver Ambassador Jessica Hawkins, who makes her British GT Championship debut when the series begins at Oulton Park (29 March – 1 April). She joins six-time class champion Beechdean AMR alongside team owner and series veteran Andrew Howard as the duo make an assault on the Silver-Am class with a brand-new Aston Martin green Vantage GT3.

Hawkins, who tested an Aston Martin Formula 1 car in Hungary last year, is a W Series podium finisher and a race-winner in the TCR UK series. The 29-year-old was also one of several drivers entrusted with testing the new Vantage GT3 during its development over the winter.

#Aston Martin #Aston Martin Racing #Jessica Hawkins #cars

[umlewis]

Sorry if you have a tag for this, but, you said he talks or takes pictures with fans w disabilities? 🥺 i’d love to see some

(sorry i’m new here 🧏‍♀️)

that's okay, and welcome to f1blr! (: i sadly don't have a tag for that, but maybe i should start one 💜

here he is visiting great ormond's children's hospital in late 2022

he did the same in 2018 :) [more pictures here!]

at the track with kids from great ormond street back in 2007

here's an article about nicolas, lewis, and when lewis got nicolas into his seat in the mercedes (and driving the sim!) 💜 in 2019 lewis arranged to have his car and spanish gp trophy taken to a little boy with terminal cancer named harry shaw, which you can see here, dedicated the spanish gp win to him here, and paid tribute to him at the canadian gp after his passing he also had his car sent, along with a parade of supercars, to a 3-year-old boy named morgan riddler in the same situation who was supposed to attend silverstone and sadly didn't make it [here]

here he is with billy monger at the 2017 british gp after his accident, and here's his post from 2017 congratulating billy on his nomination for laureau's sporting moment of the year and encouraging people to vote for him

lewis with a fan at the factory this year

'nother picture with billy! and here's all the pictures of lewis and billy that motorsports images has (:

lewis became an ambassador for the invictus games in 2015 and playled some wheelchair basketball

with a fan at the u.s. gp in 2015

lewis and lewis! with lewis hammans in 2018

lewis with 9-year-old luca, who was visiting with other patients from great ormond, at the british gp

sir lewis taking sir frank williams on a hot lap of silverstone in 2019 🥺

and, of course, lewis always making sure nicolas is involved in his career. that, i do have a tag for (: also! only tangientally related, but if you would like disabled drivers to cheer on, nicolas (who has cerebral palsy) races in the british touring car championship and robert wickens (a paraplegic after a horrific indycar crash) drives in the imsa michelin pilot challenge (which is gt racing) 😊 everybody, abled and disabled, please feel free to reblog this! us disabled and chronically ill fans belong here and the goat said so 💜👑

#lewis hamilton #f1 #formula 1 #fic ref 2022 #2022 not a race #post-season 2022 #flashback fic ref 2018 #2018 not a race #between australia and bahrain 2018 #fic ref 2023 #2023 not a race #flashback fic ref 2017 #britain 2017 saturday #pre-season 2023 #flashback fic ref 2015 #2015 not a race #between austria and britain 2015 #usa 2015 #(note to self: lewis n lewis was in july 2018) #flashback fic ref 2016 #britain 2016 #flashback fic ref 2019 #britain 2019 #tw death #tw cancer #tw crash

[ummick]

'It's the start of something' – Mick Schumacher follows in Dad's sports car footsteps

Mick Schumacher's career stalled after two difficult years – now he's set to complete a circle started by his father by making his Le Mans Hypercar debut this weekend

Almost 33 years ago, a young Michael Schumacher found himself indignantly stranded just outside the Silverstone pit exit when his Mercedes C11 Group C car’s gear linkage crumbled during qualifying for the British Empire Trophy, as the ex-WEC round was known then. After the Silver Arrows junior driver’s mechanics came to his rescue – legging it down the pitlane to fix the car – the incident was deemed 'outside assistance' and the German hotshot was promptly excluded from the event, along with his Le Mans-winning team-mate Jochen Mass. Over three decades later, his son Mick is now getting to grips with what he calls "the basics" of a fast and furious, 40-car strong sports car field as he prepares to make his World Endurance Championship debut this weekend for Alpine in Qatar. Father and son have an uncanny reverse symmetry to their careers – while Michael had a couple of years of sports car appearances before famously launching into F1, son Mick is now embarking on an endurance racing journey after a couple of years in the grand prix world. Speaking to Motor Sport, the former F2 and F3 champion is clearly keen to put recent unsatisfying years behind him when he was either stuck at the back of the F1 grid with Haas or on the bench as a reserve driver for Mercedes – and describes how glad he is to be back behind the wheel.

"It's amazing," he enthuses. "It was my first season [in 2023] not racing in over 15 years, so it felt quite weird and I didn’t like it, so I'm happy that I'm back in the racing seat. Also, I feel like that working aspect of trying to prove yourself, trying to get after it, is something so special and unique to sports in general, and if you just sit on the bench, you don’t really get to do that. “I think it's definitely a start of something, which hopefully is a good season, a good project. Who knows what the future holds?" With limited testing in WEC, over the course of the Prologue and practice sessions Schumacher has just been trying to acclimatise to what is a congested Losail track at the best of times; a tight circuit originally designed for MotoGP bikes. "It's been my first experience with every car on track," he says, slightly wide-eyed. "I think it was good to have that with the GT cars, and see how [a number of] Hypercars behave on track – it's out of the ordinary to me [after] racing in open wheels. But it’s been positive, I got to do my laps. I think we learned a lot." Having only driven featherlight karts and single seaters up to this point, Schumacher admits that Alpine A424 has come as a bit of a shock to the system. Its Mecachrome V6 and rear-axle MGU might pump out a combined 670bhp, but compared to his Haas F1 car the French car still feels like a bit of an electric blue tank. "It's a very heavy car, low downforce, low power compared to what I’m used to," he says. "But there's still this racing aspect, there's still this aspect of trying to improve every single bit. And at the end, [while] not everybody has the same [cars], we're all pretty much in the same boat." Schumacher said that he was still adjusting to driving within a team of three, sharing the same car, rather than as an individual. "It's a very different approach to F1. Sometimes I still catch myself trying to be the fastest. It's just about learning to take the information, process it and be able to use it right away, counter-checking with the experiences of my teammates so I don't go in blind. We're trying to position ourselves with a car where we know we can last around ten hours."

With the Qatar race stretching out so long, Schumacher says that he has to be ready for anything that might be thrown his way, clearly relishing the challenge of this new discipline. That said, the young German makes no bones about where he’s trying to get back to. WEC is quite simply a springboard. "The closeness to Europe and the ability to merge it with my reserve driver role in F1 are for me the main aspects," he says when asked as to the reason behind the WEC move. "It's important to just go racing again, to stay race fit, sharp in my head so that whenever the opportunity arises in F1 I'm ready to switch over to that. But I think that there's a big future in Hypercar at the moment, with so many manufacturers coming in,and more races coming into the calendar, I hope, at some points. I think there's loads of great things to come in both championships." When asked 'Why Alpine?,' a similar response is forthcoming. "The closeness to F1 is definitely a big aspect," he admits. "But also just the fact to see how committed Alpine was as a brand to push this project – it's also a big factor. The combination was just difficult to resist." Part of the excitement around WEC this season is that in a 19-strong Hypercar line-up, no one is quite sure what the competitive order will be. Heavyweights Ferrari and Toyota will likely be near the sharp end, but this season Porsche and Cadillac look like serious threats to their supremacy. Meanwhile, new kids on the Hypercar block Alpine and Lamborghini are the dark horses. Even Schumacher himself isn't sure. "Honestly, I don't think anybody knows, really, where we are," he says. "I think we're just very excited to see how it's going to go for the ten hours here. It's a great track, it's a great place, great venue to come to, and it'll be exciting to get the first experience in race trim and try to contextualise every little detail and see where we end up."

#mick schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #wec #fic ref #fic ref 2024 #not a race #2024 not a race #pre-season #pre-season 2024 #qatar #qatar 2024 #qatar 2024 prologue #with michael

[mediumtires]

Weird brain worm but: Toto’s ralley years w Red Bull coincide w Christian’s early years w the f1 team. Opportunity for meeting possibly?? 👀👀👀

urgh okay my sources on this are pretty slim but i’ve tried to piece this together best as i can.

so toto did some rallying “for fun” starting 1999 and stretching as far as 2013 actually. in the early 2000s toto drove mainly GT world championships and a few long long distance races for porsche, BMW, and ferrari. now my sources tell me red bull was a sponsor for some of those race teams which is why toto can be seen wearing red bull suits and driving red bull sponsored cars, mainly between 2004 and 2006.

between 2006 and 2013 he was driving for BRR (raimund baumschlager’s team) and red bull wasn’t a sponsor for them.

now, i think toto’s rallying was limited to a few races during his time as it really was more of a hobby to him. he was running his investment companies and also supporting young racing drivers at the same time so pretty busy overall. through his connections to the Mercedes junior programme he later bought the Mercedes DTM team, then co-invested in HWA which then led to his interest in f1 and williams inviting him to the factory. all of this happened between 1999 and 2009, but as far as i’m aware toto’s rallying was limited to a few races during this time and all of them in GT classes.

christian took over at jaguar/red bull in 2005. he was never really invested in GT or DTM, even during his own racing days he preferred single seaters; formula renault, formula 3000, british f2/3.

red bull as a company is known to invest in many many different sporting categories, one of which are different motorsports classes, so i don’t think it’s surprising that they sponsored GT cars. only christian wasn’t and isn’t involved in any of that; he doesn’t do sponsorships, he doesn’t do and never did GT/DTM, he’s obviously only concerned with the f1 division of red bull racing.

so i think chances of them meeting prior to toto joining forces with williams in 2009 are pretty slim. but not impossible! could make for a fun fic for sure!!

(here’s a fun red bull bulletin article on toto called “the secret life of toto wolff” published in 2021. they’re so unhinged)

#christian horner #toto wolff #i love when you guys send me stuff like this and i get to go away and do research and come back and write silly posts like this

[swpics]

Lotus is 1 of 10 manufacturers represented in the British GT Championship 2024. See the others at the media launch from Donington Park in the current issue of Classic and Competition Car magazine. Free to read at www.classicandcompetitioncar.com

#cars #lotus #British GT #british car #motorsports #car #GT4 #GT Racing #motor racing #sports cars #Lotus Emira

[viper-motorsports]

Under threatening skies that have so far plagued this 2015 British GT Championship weekend, Von Ryan Racing managed to hold on with their N°12 McLaren 650S GT3 winning the Silverstone 500k.

#mclaren 650s gt3 #silverstone 500 #von ryan racing #silverstone circuit #british gt championship #2015 silverstone500k #2015 britishgt

[diabolus1exmachina]

ASCARI Ecosse 

Ascari (the name is either a contraction of Anglo-American Car Industries or a tribute to Alberto Ascari, the two-time, Ferrari-driving Formula One champion, depending on who you listen to…) made its home near Banbury, an area thick with Formula One teams and engineering know-how.Its first car was the FGT, a Chevrolet-engined concept racing car that so impressed multi-millionaire inventor and racing driver Klaas Zwart that, like Victor Kyam, he bought the company. He went on to race the FGT in the British GT Championship in 1995, winning at Silverstone but failing to qualify for Le Mans.The Ecosse was the road-going version of the FGT. With more than a hint of McLaren F1 about it, it was Ascari’s first production car. Launched in 1998 it featured a spaceframe chassis, a fibreglass and Kevlar body, and a BMW 4.4-litre, Hartage-tuned V8 engine mated to a ZF manual gearbox. It wouldn’t surprise us if Ascari lost money on each one, so exquisite is the engineering.With 300bhp on tap, it is said to have a top speed of 200mph thanks to slippery aerodynamics and a weight of just 1,250kgs, which is all the more impressive given that it has leather trim, air-conditioning and a carbonfibre dashboard; this was a proper supercar rather than a stripped-out racing machine made legal.The engine size was later increased to 4.7-litres and 400bhp, and the more powerful car could reach 60mph in 4.1 seconds – and if that’s not quick enough for you, the final cars boasted a 420bhp, 5.0-litre BMW V8 and two of the concluding run even had a six-speed sequential gearbox from Quaife…The firm, who ceased trading in 2010, is thought to have built only 17 cars, of which no more than seven are thought to still exist, making them a very, very rare sight indeed.

#ASCARI Ecosse #Alberto Ascari #BMW

[womeninmotorsport]

W SERIES 2022 DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS: #55 Jamie Chadwick

Born 20 May 1998 in Bath, UK, Jamie is the two time and reigning W Series Champion and the first ever winner of a W Series race. She started racing at age 11 and began racing in the British GT Championship in 2015, winning it in her first year. She transitioned to single seater racing in 2017 gaining a podium in her first season in British Formula 3, and a win the following year. In 2019, she joined the Williams Driver Academy and became a development driver for the team. She also raced for Prema in the Formula Regional European Championship in 2020 and for Veloce Racing in Extreme E in 2021. She will not receive Super License points no matter her standings this year due to her winning the championship last season. She will race alongside Chloe Chambers for Jenner Racing.

“This is a big development year for me. I have plans to run a supporting racing programme and I have made no secret of my desire to compete in F3 and F2. But timing is everything and the opportunity that W Series gives me to get more competitive experience at world-class circuits is a key step on my journey towards competing in F1.”

Previous/Other Series: Ginetta Junior Championship, British GT Championship - GT4, BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, F3 Asian Championship, Formula Regional European Championship, Extreme E

Achievements:

2015 British GT Championship - GT4 Champion (First female and youngest ever champion)

2018 British F3 win (First female race winner)

2018–19 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Champion

2019–20 F3 Asian Championship 4th place

2019 and 2021 W Series Champion

Links:

Twitter

Instagram

W Series Driver Page

#jamie chadwick #w series #driverintros22* #ours*

[zikbitume]

‘ @BritishGT  #BritishGT

#car #lamborghini #Intelligent Money British GT Championship #BritishGT #spa francorchamps

[f1]

British GT Championship 2022 | Round 6 - Snetterton

Round 6 of the 2022 British GT championship - LIVE from Snetterton Subscribe: http://the-race.com/youtube_subscribe Website: http://the-race.com/ Twitter: @wearetherace Instagram: @wearetherace Facebook: http://facebook.com/wearetherace Podcasts: http://the-race.com/podcasts Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, please also hit subscribe to show your support so we'll keep doing what we're doing. https://www.the-race.com http://www.twitter.com/wearetherace via THE RACE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTxfj0BzL-MaCy-YUqPRoQ

#F1 #British GT Championship 2022 | Round 6 - Snetterton #Formula 1

[scotianostra]

September 15th 2007 saw the tragic death of Scottish  world rally champion, his son Johnny, the boy’s friend Ben Porcelli and Graeme Duncan, when his helicopter came down near McRae’s home in Lanark.

Born on 5th August 1968 in Lanark, McRae was part of a racing family from the start alongside future rally driving brother Alastair McRae. As the son of rally legend Jimmy McRae, Colin got involved in autotesting from the age of 16 and quickly excelled on rough surfaces.

1986 saw the young star behind the wheel of a Talbot Sunbeam in the Scottish Rally Championship, and two years later he claimed the championship title after beating off competition in his rally-prepared Vauxhall Nova. After upgrading to a Ford Sierra XR 4x4i and latterly a Sierra Cosworth, McRae stunned crowds at the 1987 Rally New Zealand by finishing 5th in the heavy, rear-wheel drive coupe in a field dominated by grippier four-wheel-drive machines.

Only four years later, McRae turned professional and started a world-famous association with the Prodrive rally team and their blue-and-gold Subaru Impreza WRC cars. As a curious aside in 1992, McRae also competed for Prodrive in a BMW 3-series coupe at the Knockhill round of the British Touring Car Championship, where he was disqualified for causing an avoidable collision with fellow racer Matt Neal.”

The Scot’s first professional World Rally Championship win came in 1993 at Rally New Zealand where he had shocked crowds in the Ford before. McRae by this point was reaching the peak of his career, with an out-an-out duel with world champion teammate Carlos Sainz seeing McRae crowned as World Rally Champion for 1995.

Subsequent seasons saw him fail to better his second place, and he completed a move to rivals Ford in 1999.

At Ford, McRae’s rapid pace and flamboyant driving style remained while the American company paid him approximately six million pounds over two years; making him the highest-paid rally driver in history at the time. Reliability issues with the Ford Focus WRC - and McRae’s penchant for rally-ending flips and crashes - meant that he would again finish fourth in 2000 and second in 2001, behind Finn Tommi Makkinen and fellow Brit Richard Burns.

Eventually, McRae’s contract with Ford expired at the end of 2002 and the Scot made the move to up-and-coming hopefuls Citroen. Alongside former teammate Carlos Sainz and then-rookie Sebastian Loeb, McRae secured a second-place finish on that year’s Monte Carlo rally, which was to be his highest rally finish for the remainder of that season where he finished seventh in the championship rankings.

After being let go by the French outfit due to 2004 rule changes that reduced the number of championship drivers in a team from 3 to 2, McRae was left without a drive for the new season. It was in this year that he decided to try out different forms of motorsport, with an entry into the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race with a Prodrive-entered Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello rewarding him with a third place podium spot in his class and ninth place finish overall. McRae would also enter the Dakar Rally event in latter years and even make a surprise return to the WRC in a semi-works team Citroen Xsara in 2006 after Loeb had broken his hand.

McRae’s unexpected death in September 2007 came not behind the wheel of a car but in a helicopter accident which also took the lives of his son and family friends. Reacting to the news of his death, close friend and then F1 racer David Coulthard said: “He was fearless, flamboyant, [and] blindingly quick in the car. He had all the good Scottish traits.”

Coulthard then opted to race the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix with a commemorative helmet design to honour the Lanark icon, as seen in the pics.

Since the death of Colin McRae, the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally has been run in Perth since 2008 and attracted big-name rally stars such as Ari Vatanen, Stig Blomqvist, Travis Pastrana and Colin’s father, Jimmy McRae. McRae is frequently cited as one of the most exciting and talented drivers by spectators, thanks to his fluid driving style which often saw the car pitched sideways through corners.

#Scotland #scottish #rally driver #motor racing #motor sports #rip #world champion.