Hughes returns to GT4
Warren Hughes will return to British GT for the first time since 2014 at Donington Park this weekend when he partners Jan Klingelnberg in a Balfe Motorsport Mclaren 570S GT4.
Hughes, the 2012 GT4 champion, has coached Swiss driver Klingelnberg in the
Pure Mclaren GT Series and partnered him in the recent GT Cup round at Silverstone.
Their Mclaren will bolster the 10-car GT4 field for the three-hour race, joining the sister Balfe Mclaren of Mia Flewitt and Euan Hankey, which is the only GT4 Pro-am entry.
“It’s great to be taking that next step into a known environment,” said Hughes, who last raced in British GT in a Trackspeed-run Porsche before switching to a Triple Eight BMW Z4 for the final two rounds of 2014. “The appeal for Jan is the ability to measure himself against the competition.
“In the GT Cup, we were kind of in a class of our own. Now we’ll have competitors in the same class and so it helps to work a bit harder and to dig a bit deeper for the competitive edge.”
Among the other changes to the entry list, the Century
Motorsport BMW M4 GT4, which Andrew Gordoncolebrooke and Ben Green took to second at Brands Hatch, is absent, but the team’s Tegiwabranded M4 for Am/am pair Luke Sedzikowski and David Whitmore returns for the first time since the opening round.
In GT3, Lamborghini factory driver Marco Mapelli becomes the fourth different co-driver of Michael Igoe’s WPI Motorsport Huracan, while an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 has been entered by Ultimate Speed for Matt Manderson and Michael Brown.