The first ever GB4 Winter Series takes place at Snetterton this weekend (24/25 October), with a new-look crop of young rising stars set to battle it out to become the first Winter Champion.
Be sure to follow all this weekend's action via the dedicated event website winter.gb-4.net. This is where the latest results, news and championship standings will be available.
Here's everything you need to know ahead of the race weekend.
What's the format?
The Winter Series event is effectively split into two events, on consecutive days, on the same weekend. In total, there are two qualifying sessions and four races, with two days of testing in the build-up.
Every race day features a qualifying session in the morning, with each driver's fastest times forming the day's race one grid, and second fastest times deciding the race two grid. The same format is repeated on Sunday, again with a qualifying and two races.
Unlike the 'Main season' there are no top-12 reverse grids, meaning every race this weekend features the same points system, with 35 for a win, down to one for 20th.
What else is new?
For each race day, drivers can nominate three slick front and three slick rear tyres to cover qualifying and the races.
Each driver may also nominate four wet front and four wet rear tyres per race day.
All cars this weekend will run from the pit garages, so the usual team awning set ups will not be present at Snetterton. This also means that cars will enter each session from the pits, as opposed to using an assembly area.
Each team can also run a maximum of four cars this weekend, compared to three per team in the main season.
Who is driving?
The Winter Series entrants are a mixture of drivers with GB4 experience, series newcomers with experience in other cars, and a group of five contenders who are graduating from karting and have never raced cars before.
Drivers with GB4 experience, and therefore likely to be among the leading contenders this weekend include:
Jamie Leverton - Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing
William Rohan - Pace Performance
John O'Donnell - Elite Motorsport
Jasser Iskander - Fox Motorsport
Archie Bullard - Fox Motorsport
Conor Grant - Douglas Motorsport
Solenn Amrouche - KMR Sport
Drivers who have raced cars before, but are yet to do so in GB4 are:
George Proudford-Nalder - Douglas Motorsport
Gianna Pascoal - Pace Performance
Harrison Mackie - Elite Motorsport
Jesse Phillips - Elite Motorsport
Lewis Goff - KMR Sport
Qarrar Firhand - Fortec Motorsports
Chase Fernandez - R Racing
And finally, the drivers moving up from karting and making their car racing debuts at Snetterton are:
Rob Crawford - Fox Motorsport
Toby Campbell - KMR Sport
Alexander De Benedittis - Pace Performance
Max Yuill - Fortec Motorsports
Archie Pearce - Nitrous Competitions ADM Racing
Click here to read more about each driver racing this weekend.
How to follow?
All this weekend's action can be followed via the winter.gb-4.net website, including live timing and streaming coverage of the races. Here's the full schedule, with information on the best way to follow each day of action.
Thursday 22 October - live timing
09.50-10.35 - Session one
11.35-12.00 - Session two
12.05-12.25 - Practice starts on the grid
14.20-15.10 - Session three
16.05-16.50 - Session four
A total of four test sessions will allow this weekend's drivers to get up to speed at Snetterton. In addition, with so many new drivers, a dedicated practice start session will be held on the grid just after midday.
Friday 23 October - live timing
09.35-10.05 - Session one
11.20-11.50 - Session two
14.00-14.30 - Session three
15.45-16.15 - Session four
Four more sessions, totalling two hours' track time, will ensure drivers are well prepared ahead of the first event day.
Saturday 24 October - live timing and streaming
10.10 - Qualifying
12.20 - Round one
15.20 - Round two
Qualifying forms the grids for the day's two races, with fastest times forming the race one grid, and second quickest times deciding the race two line-up.
Sunday 25 October - live timing and streaming
09.40 - Qualifying
11.50 - Round three
14.50 - Round four
The format from Saturday is repeated on Sunday, with the Winter Series Champion to be crowned at the end of the day.
Live timing will cover every on track session this weekend, and will be available via winter.gb-4.net/live-timing
The live feeds will be available for all four races via the same link as above, and also on the MSV TV YouTube channel. This weekend's shows feature commentary from the voice of GB4, Lewis McGlade.
Click here to view the GB4 Winter Series live timing and streaming page
Click here to visit the MSV TV YouTube channel
All times are local (UK)
