HENDERSON AND PROSSER JOIN GT4 SERIES
Mazda MX-5 champion Alan Henderson made a successful return to sprint racing last weekend at Silverstone, competing in the Ginetta GT4 Supercup to showcase his AK Motorsport team’s for-hire G55.
Henderson won the Mazda MX-5 Supercup title in 2015 though stopped midway through ’16 for budget reasons. His Silverstone appearance was a rare sprint race outing, and race with a standing start, since that period, having largely contested endurance races in a Lotus Elise in recent years.
“I feel like a novice again!” Henderson said. “I just want to get back in the car really, haven’t raced in a while. If it’s sat in the garage no-one knows we’ve got it!”
Another MX-5 Supercup champion, 2016 title-winner James Blake-baldwin, will be driving the car in the seasonclosing Brands Hatch round.
Despite only “40 minutes’ experience” in the car beforehand, Henderson ran competitively at Silverstone, finishing fifth in all three races.
Last year’s Britcar Sprint champion Kris Prosser was another making his GT4 Supercup bow at Silverstone, driving for Team Hard. This year Prosser has competed in the GT Cup in a Ginetta G55 Supercup car with the team, and it was via this that his opportunity in the Ginetta one-make series came about.
He took a best result of eighth and he’s hoping to compete full-time in the championship next season.
“It tempted me with the competition, I needed to push myself, see where I was in reality against some of the best Ginetta drivers in the world,” he said.