The GB4 Championship season resumes at Snetterton this weekend, as the UK’s most cost-effective single-seater category reaches the midway point in the 2025 season.
Heading the packed field to Snetterton is Hillspeed’s Dan Guinchard, the former Mercedes junior driver holding a 36-point lead over the field after an eventful Oulton Park weekend over a month ago.
There, Guinchard took his second win of the campaign, becoming only the second driver to have claimed multiple wins so far. Elite Motorsport trio Alex Kattoulas, Isaac Phelps and Ary Bansal are next up, each have won races, with Phelps the only other multiple winner on the grid so far. However all three endured difficult weekends in Cheshire, with the weather causing havoc, and their fightback begins at the team’s home circuit. The leading drivers are all battling for a £50,000 prize to put towards a GB3 campaign next year.
Douglas Motorsport’s Enzo Hallman became the seventh driver to win a race this year with a triumph in a bonkers Oulton Park finale, while KMR Sport’s Alex O’Grady enjoyed by far his best GB4 weekend so far with his own first win and an additional podium to thrust him up to sixth in the standings.
Hillspeed’s Leandro Juncos occupies seventh in the standings at present, though he could well be higher up only for a change of fortune. Douglas Motorsport’s Dayton Coulthard is right behind him, and heads to Snetterton buoyed by his best GB4 weekend in an ever-improving campaign, with second place in Oulton Park race three.
Arden Motorsport’s Leon Wilson is ninth, and has shown the pace that would indicate a first podium of the year is overdue, while Graham Brunton Racing’s Alex Berg would love to be back on the rostrum, having won during the first weekend at Donington Park.
Just a point further back is Berg’s fellow Canadian teammate Callum Baxter, who put in an astounding drive last time out, and with another lap could well have won the race, but had to settle for third. Just three points behind him is Fortec’s Jack Taylor, another eyeing a breakthrough win.
Douglas Motorsport’s Luke Hilton has shown pace that far exceeds his current 13th place in the standings, while Pace Performance’s Stefan Bostandjiev is next up despite missing the Silverstone action while fulfilling GB3 commitments.
The next Fortec contender of Thomas Ingram Hill is next up, while KMR Sport’s Megan Bruce just missed out on a podium at Oulton Park, and has made social media waves in recent weeks courtesy of going from P19 to fourth inside a single lap! She’s the lead female contender in the race for the €50,000 prize towards a potential F1 Academy drive next year.
Pace Performance’s Josh McLean continues to make progress in his first single-seater campaign, ahead of ADM’s Jason Pribyl, who has silverware to his name already with a strong second place at Silverstone.
Fox Motorsport’s Holly Miall, Arden’s Ava Dobson, Miall’s teammate Caitlyn McDaniel and KMR’s Lily-May Watkins all secured personal best results at Oulton Park, and will aim for more improvements in Norfolk.
Expanding the grid this weekend, 19-year-old Briton Dudley Ruddock (Arden) progresses to car racing for the first time, having won the Rye House Kart Club Senior Rotax division in 2023. And as for Finnish-British driver Flame Airikkala (Pace Performance), she also makes her GB4 debut, though this won’t be her first Snetterton event of the year, having competed in a rally and Radical races at the circuit already! With several famous surnames on the grid already, Airikkala joins their ranks, being the granddaughter of rallying legend Pentti Airikkala.
With 24 drivers on the grid this weekend, the racing action around the Snetterton 300 circuit should feature plenty of drama. Qualifying is due to start at 11.10 on Saturday, and will form the grids for races one and two of the weekend, the first of which starts at 15.15 the same day, with the grid based on each driver’s fastest qualifying times.
Race two, with the grid based on the second quickest times from qualifying will start at 10.05 on Sunday, before the top-12 reverse contest follows at 16.20. All the races will be streamed live on the GB4 Championship website, Facebook page and the MSV TV YouTube channel, while full weekend updates can be found on the championship website www.gb-4.net.
Snetterton entry list:
#3 Alex O’Grady, KMR Sport, Ireland
#7 Enzo Hallman, Douglas Motorsport, Sweden
#8 Thomas Ingram Hill, Fortec Motorsport, United Kingdom
#9 Megan Bruce, KMR Sport, United Kingdom
#15 Lily May Watkins, KMR Sport, United Kingdom
#17 Stefan Bostandjiev, Pace Performance, Bulgaria
#24 Dudley Ruddock, Arden Motorsport, United Kingdom
#27 Leon Wilson, Arden Motorsport, United Kingdom
#28 Dayton Coulthard, Douglas Motorsport, United Kingdom
#32 Luke Hilton, Douglas Motorsport, United Kingdom
#35 Isaac Phelps, Elite Motorsport, United Kingdom
#45 Callum Baxter, Graham Brunton Racing, Canada
#46 Ary Bansal, Elite Motorsport, India
#48 Holly Miall, Fox Motorsport, United Kingdom
#49 Daniel Guinchard, Hillspeed, United Kingdom
#50 Jack Taylor, Fortec Motorsport, Australia
#51 Alex Kattoulas, Elite Motorsport, Japanese-Greek
#55 Ava Dobson, Arden Motorsport, United States of America
#59 Jason Pribyl, ADM, United States of America
#76 Josh McLean, Pace Performance, United Kingdom
#77 Leandro Juncos, Hillspeed, Argentinean-American
#88 Caitlyn McDaniel, Fox Motorsport, United States of America
#95 Flame Airikkala, Pace Performance, Finnish-British
#98 Alex Berg, Graham Brunton Racing, Canada
