KMR Sport's Lily-May Watkins has made major strides forward in pace at the start of her second GB4 Championship season, already eclipsing her high points from 2025.
The British contender has made the leap from the back of the grid to the competitive midfield in just her second year of car racing, and has already scored points on three occasions, despite the record-breaking grid levels this year.
Despite that, she feels there's more potential and better results to come.
"This season hasn’t panned out the way I expected yet" she admits. "But we have the pace, we just need to have the opportunity to show it and get some luck at some point. But it’s only up from here!"
A strong showing at the season opener was followed by a more challenging event at Oulton Park, with Watkins now getting used to the hustle and bustle of operating in the middle of the pack.
"I got caught in a couple of incidents that weren’t my fault, but it is what it is and we move forward for the next one.
"In the first race I just got caught out, the guy in front slowed down a lot, more than any of us expected. The guy in front locked up and I had less time to react, so I went straight into the back of him," she noted, with her car's nose cone bearing the brunt of the damage!
"And then in race three, three people were going side by side into the chicane and I had nowhere to go and they ended up chopping across my front, and bent my track rod. Luckily the team managed to fix it under red flag and I got back out. I tried to manage a result with the damage I still had, and it was good to finish that race still."
She credits her up turn in pace to better all-round preparation ahead of the season, after being one of the first drivers to announce their GB4 entry for 2026.
"I’ve had a lot longer to prepare this season compared to last season, and also mentally I just feel like I’m in a lot better position than I was last year, just believing in myself a bit more."
And after a strong showing at the Donington Park pre-season test, Lily is aiming for more breakthrough results in the next event at the circuit at the end of June.
"I’m very excited for Donington, it’s one of my best tracks. We were running in the top-six or seven for the majority of the test days, so hopefully we can be back in there, get some points and get back to where we should be in the championship."
