GT4 champ Middleton Daytona-bound

BRITISH GT4 CHAMPION STUART Middleton will race in January’s Daytona 24 Hours after winning a fully funded seat in a Cadillac Daytona Prototype courtesy of Sunoco.

Middleton was crowned the winner of this year’s Sunoco Whelen Challenge contest last weekend, and will now get to race an

Action Express Racing Cadillac DPI-V.R for the IMSA Sportscar Championship opener. The prize is worth an estimated £190,000.

Middleton will share the car with former Formula 1 racer Felipe Nasr, World Endurance Championship regular Mike Conway and 2016 IMSA champion Eric Curran.

Middleton, 18, won this year’s prize after standout performances alongside

Will Tregurtha in the Hhc-run Ginetta

G55 GT4 as the pair took the British title. Middleton was put clear in the Sunoco points when Radical European Masters racer Stuart Moseley was unable to score enough points at Barcelona last weekend.