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British Endurance Racing ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP THE HOME OF BRITISH ENDURANCE RACING 2021 SEASON GUIDE ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP Contents Welcome to Britcar Page 3 Welcome Welcome to Britcar 2021 The 2020 season threw some enormous challenges, but we managed to ensure, along with a Page 5 2020 Endurance Review dedicated bunch of competitors, that it was a resounding success. Our brand new Trophy category excelled despite the pandemic, with an eclectic mix of cars and a wide range of driver experience, and our roster of overall and class champions typifies the success that can be achieved Page 7 2020 Trophy Review at this level, whilst our Britcar Endurance category once again proved Britcar’s wide appeal to all aspects of endurance racing, Page 9 2021 Championships whether your commitment be “aspirational” or “destinational” – our teenage overall champions, Jem Hepworth and Danny Harrison, can look forward to a professional career in global Page 11 Sponsorship Support endurance racing, and, for instance, our Class 3 victors, Marcus Fothergill and Dave Benett, add another trophy in careers as skilled amateurs of over 20 years of experience. Page 13 BEPI Explained For our 2021 season, we build on the success of last year, and continue with our two discrete Britcar Endurance and Page 15 Raceday Hospitality Britcar Endurance Trophy categories on a race weekend, with Endurance generally having two 60-minute races on a Saturday, Page 17 Media and TV Coverage and Trophy featuring two 50-minute races on the Sunday. There may be some exceptions through the season, so please check our 2021 calendar. As previously, both championships will be regulated by our unique Britcar Endurance Performance Indicator Page 19 Trusted Partner Offers (BEPI), to ensure a structured and competitive environment. In addition, following the success of the Praga marque in Britcar, we will be running a separate championship for these exciting cars, within the Britcar Endurance structure and in association with the manufacturer. This category Page 28 Contact details will have its own results, trophies and points structure, and will not conflict with the existing Britcar Endurance Championship. You will see a change to Britcar’s image in 2021, as the parent company of our long-standing tyre partner Dunlop is changing the branding to Goodyear. This does not affect the stability of the ongoing partnership, and we look forward to continuing our relationship with Goodyear’s associates HP Tyres for the on-site supply of regulation tyres for all of our championships. Additionally, our association with Anglo American Oils continues, for the at-circuit supply of Sunoco fuel, and we also enjoy ongoing partnerships with a number of suppliers of automotive and motorsport products and services, offering preferential rates and discounts to Britcar competitors. Britcar is indebted to the support of a number of people that ensure the smooth running of events; to the Britcar staff, many of whom are volunteers, for their raceday support and background work between events, and to members of the Williams family for their input on several levels. I would also like to personally thank all of our sponsors, the staff at the British Automobile Racing Club, and all circuit staff, and of course, the dedicated and hard working marshals who support us at each event. So it’s going to be an exciting 2021, and Britcar would love you to be part of our bright future. ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIPClaire Hedley & Team ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 2 3 ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 2020 Britcar Endurance Review Danny Harrison and Jem Hepworth became the Class title. Usual stalwarts Mark and Peter the youngest male/female pairing to win a Cunningham made only sporadic appearances in major UK championship, clinching the overall their Porsche 997, while Colin Sowter’s Ferrari Britcar Endurance and Class 1 titles in the VR 488 took a win in his only appearance at Brands Motorsport Praga R1T. It wasn’t a foregone Hatch. conclusion though, there were issues along the Class 4 was the most competitive, and it was the way, and both often had to fight through the Reflex Racing Ligier JS2-R of Marcus Vivian pack, and contend with team mates Jack Fabby and Luke Davenport that took class honours, and Garry Townsend, who also took wins. Jonny though they were just one of many class winners MacGregor and Ben Sharich valiantly took the through the season. Nathan Wells’ BMW M3 fight to the Pragas in the unique MacG Racing didn’t reappear after a mid-season engine blow- Taranis, and MacGregor’s superb lone drive in the up, and the similar machine of Jonathan Evans/ Snetterton season-closer almost resulted in a win. Tom Bradshaw regularly headed the pack but Class 2 frontrunners Steve Burgess and Ben didn’t always win, while pro-driver Sean Doyle Dimmack, in the RAW Motorsport Radical RXC and Irish champion Nicole Drought, learning Coupe also took a couple of overall wins, but her way around British circuits, were early-season missed out on the Class title and overall runner- favourites in the Valluga Porsche Cayman 981; up spot, to outgoing champion Paul Bailey in his they took the runner-up spot in the standings, 2019 title-winning Ferrari 488, in which former ahead of the EDF Motorsport SEAT Cupra of co-champion Andy Schulz, and new co-driver Ash Woodman and Martin Byford. Lone driver Ross Wylie both played a part during the season. Peter Erceg put in some solid performances in Military veterans Martyn Compton and Warren his Cayman, while the Team BRIT Aston Martin McKinlay had their most successful season yet in Vantage was a revelation, Bobby Trundley’s the naturally aspirated VR Motorsport Praga R1, autism positively inspiring some courageous while Mike Moss’s BMW 1M was fast but fragile. performances, supported by wheelchair-bound Aaron Morgan. New team Newbarn Racing In Class 3, old hands Marcus Fothergill and were on a learning curve, the totally new squad Dave Benett came out fighting from the opening campaigning a former road-going Jaguar F-Type round in their new Porsche 991, and they for Callum and Adam Thompson; they had their recovered from a troubled early season to take problems along the way, but never lost their spirit. 4 5 2020 Britcar Trophy Review The inaugural season of the new Trophy category entry Honda Integra of Nigel Ainge and Danny was a resounding success, attracting drivers of Cassar, while the MacG Racing Mazda RX8 of varying experience into an endurance racing Jonny MacGregor and Josh Tomlinson was format, in a wide-variety of machinery, so it is a front-runner too, but had its issues, as did the fitting that our overall champion had little racing Smart ForFour of Rob Baker and Jon Packer, experience, in a 25 year-old car, exemplifying who took an early-season win. Anthony Hutchins what can be achieved in this category. Oliver was in-line for the Overall and Class 5 titles, by Smith, with a decade of track days under his consistent finishes, but his Porsche Boxster failed belt in the JC Racing BMW M3 E46, took the in the final race of the season, relegating him to prize, sealing the Class 6 title in the process. Our class runner up, the same happening to Class 6 runner-up, and Class 7 victor Johnathan Barrett, runner-up, the Ginetta G40 of Charlotte Birch in a BMW 330 run by Saxon Motorsport, was a and Adriano Medeiros, after some spirited drives recent convert to racing too, while our Class 5 by both pilots, while not figuring in the top points title winners, Charlie Campbell and Rob Smith, placings, but consistently running in the front of showed the benefits of a pro-am pairing, BTCC the class pack were the Porsche 996 of Richard aspirant Smith building a buffer in the Peugeot Higgins, and Brad Kaylor’s SEAT Supra; Higgins RCZ that gentleman driver Campbell fought hard took an overall win, while Kaylor’s performances to protect. The category established a class for earned him the Driver of the Year award. the Renault Clios too, where brothers James and In Class 7, Alistair Lindsay’s VW Golf was the Ben Colburn mixed their battle with the overall benchmark for pace, but mechanical issues positions, though it was Aaron Thompson, thwarted his title chances, relegating him to third partnered by dad Steve, returning after a 13-year in the standings, with father-and-son duo Steve lay-off, that took the class crown. and Edward Cook, in a Honda Civic, taking the It wasn’t all about the titles though. Barry runner-up spot. Team BRIT brought their BMW McMahon’s Alfa Romeo 156 was untouchable, 116s into Class 7, where it was generally an inter- but stymied by mechanical issues, and was kept team rivalry amongst the drivers, with the pairing honest by Kester Cook once he joined mid-season of Matty Street/Andrew Tucker being most in his Ford Fiesta, and also by the invitation successful. 7 2021 Britcar Endurance Championship The Britcar Endurance Championship and the Britcar Endurance Trophy Championship continue as separate entities for 2021, and we are introducing a new category, exclusively for the Praga marque. In the Endurance category, there will be four classes – E1, E2, E3 and E4 – with the vehicle classification in Classes E1-E3 being determined byBritcar’s BEPI system, and Class 4 being for current or historically-homologated GT4 and TCR cars and the Ligier JS2-R Cup only. For Classes 1-3, the performance windows will generally be as 2020, eg, roughly (but not exclusively) approximating to GT3 for Class 1, Ferrari Challenge for Class 2, and Porsche Cup for Class 3.
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