The British GT Championship Gets Underway At Donington Park And We Cover It With Dailysportscar

Birch’s support of the 2025 British GT Championship coverage with dailysportscar.com got underway in fine style last weekend at Donington Park, where newshound Mo Rehman was on site for a splendid season start.

[See all the images from the Donington race weekend here. ]

The first set of winners' trophies for the top GT3 class went the way of 2 Seas Motorsport, where British-Bahraini team scored a magnificent double podium with first and third-place finishes, headlined by a dominant lights-to-flag victory for Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss aboard its #42 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.

It wasn’t a totally comfortable outing for the winning pair though, as reigning teams’ champion Barwell Motorsport’s #78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2 made a late charge for the lead and finished just 1.1 seconds back after two hours of racing.

The battle for supremacy in GT3 looks set to rage all season long, with 2 Seas and Barwell’s two-car efforts looking strong, and McLaren’s challengers from Optimum Motorsport and Paddock Motorsport showing encouraging early signs.

Meanwhile, the GT4 field - which was boosted by the addition of a quartet of partial-season entrants for the new Endurance Cup - produced its fair share of action too.

Optimum Motorsport’s #90 McLaren Artura of Mar Warren and Jack Brown proved to be the class of the field, converting pole position into a win. But the results sheet may have had an entirely different look to it had Makhiki Racing’s trio of Lotus Emiras lived up to their potential.

The Joe Osborne-managed team originally scored its maiden GT4 pole with the #84 of Aiden Neate and Josh Miller, before being disqualified for a breach in parc ferme rules, along with the team’s #69 example.

That infraction left the team with a mountain to climb in the race, with all three of its cars starting from the back. In the end, only one made the finish, and in fifth (though first of the GT4 Silver runners), leaving the other podium spaces to be filled by Century Motorsport and Team Parker Racing’s lead cars.

It was a 26-car strong field for Donington, and teams face a long season ahead, with trips to Silverstone, Oulton Park, Spa-Francorchamps, Snetterton and then Birch’s backyard at Brands Hatch before returning for the ‘Donington Decider’ in October.

Next up on the British GT’s UK tour is the Silverstone 500 in Northamptonshire, which will see the field tackle the UK’s premier Grand Prix circuit in a 180-minute clash.