Two-time RGB champion Albone retires as runner-up Wesemael eyes the crown
RGB runner-up Christopher Wesemael will return to fight for the title in his second year in the series, and has been boosted by the retirement of double-champion Billy Albone.
Spire GT3S driver Albone has scored the last two championships in a row, but is stepping back to focus on his business.
“I’ve got too much going on to race full-time this year,” said Albone. “We have a couple of cars in the C1 Challenge now as well. We have eight drivers signed up, four in each car.
“We’re running a karting team with full factory support in the British championship this year as well. It’s a bit up in the air with what’s going on with karting at the minute, so we’re keeping our options open.”
Wesemael graduated to RGB from karting for 2018, and put his Mittel MC-53 on pole in his first ever session in a car, before the Donington meeting was snowed off.
“We’ll be trying to take a championship home,” said Wesemael.
“It’s very important to know that the field is very strong, I’m sure there’ll be some new drivers who are very fast as well, we just need to keep working really hard.
“We had a few mechanicals during the [2018] season that without them a challenge on first [in the championship] definitely would have been possible. With this [2018] season being a bit of a developing season I made a few rookie mistakes that shouldn’t happen again.”