British GT reshuffle for Spa
Two-time Mclaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist Sennan Fielding is among several drivers left without a seat for the British GT round at Spa this weekend.
Steller Motorsport, the team with which Fielding has raced a Toyota GT86 this season, is not making the trip to Belgium. Steller team principal Gary Blackham said that supply delays had left the team unable to complete its planned programme of updates, but that it remained committed to the championship.
While disappointed to miss Spa, Fielding believes it will help the team get back on track for the final two rounds at Brands Hatch and Donington.
“It’s frustrating not to be racing at one of the best circuits on the calendar,” said Fielding. “But I think it’s going to be for the better for later on in the year, so we can do more development on the car and be fighting up at the front end where the team deserves to be.”
Fielding’s Steller team-mate Tom Canning has joined Team Hard refugee Anna Walewska’s new Protechnika Motorsport team to race a Mercedes. Dean Macdonald, who has raced Steller’s other Toyota, is replacing Aleksander Schjerpen at Century Motorsport for the rest of the season in its BMW, but his co-driver
Alex Quinn is left without a drive.
Century owner Nathan Freke said that Schjerpen was only confirmed to do half the season, and a new driver to partner Jack Mitchell was always part of the plan.
As well as Steller, Team Hard is not attending the series’ only non-uk round, leaving Walewska’s former co-driver Callum Hawkins-row out of a seat.
In the GT3 class, Jordan Witt will return to the RJN Motorsport Nissan team to drive alongside Struan Moore for the first time since the Snetterton round in May. Ricardo Sanchez drove the car and took pole on his first appearance in British GT at Silverstone last time out, but was unavailable for Spa owing to a clash with the Lmp3-based Le Mans
Cup at the Red Bull Ring.