Multi-year partnership between HHC Motorsport and Mclaren for British GT series

HHC Motorsport will switch its allegiance from Ginetta to Mclaren after signing a multi-year partnership to run the marque’s 570S GT4S as an official Mclaren Customer Racing team in British GT.

The Yorkshire-based outfit, which won British GT at the first time of asking in 2017 with Will Tregurtha and Stuart Middleton in a Ginetta G55 GT4, will enter two 570S GT4S in the championship this season, with potential for a parallel programme in European GT4.

After winning at Rockingham last year, Callum Pointon will remain with HHC and will be partnered by Dean Macdonald, who raced alongside GT4 champion Jack Mitchell at Century Motorsport for the final three rounds of 2018 and has previous experience of Mclaren from racing with Garage 59 in 2017. The second pairing is being finalised.

HHC’S Charlie Kemp told Motorsport News that he expects the partnership to bear fruit quickly.

“We never enter anything without thinking that we’ve got a chance of winning it,” he said.

“I’ve got every faith that we will continue to do what we normally do which is hit the ground running and hopefully we’re in the fight for the championship come the last round.”

MN understands that the team would not be severing its ties with Ginetta, which is not represented on the 2019 grid, although Mclaren personnel will support the team in British GT this year.