BRITCAR TROPHY LEADER STEPS UP TO GT4 IN BEC
Team Brit’s Britcar Trophy table leader Chris Overend will make his GT4 racing debut this weekend in the British Endurance Championship driving the team’s Aston Martin Vantage.
Overend, who has achieved a wheelchair tennis world ranking and only joined all-disabled Team Brit 12 months ago, competes in the Britcar Trophy alongside Paralympian skier James Whitley driving a BMW M240i. Entering last weekend’s round Overend in his first full racing season sat at the top of the Britcar
Trophy championship.
Now Overend will race alongside Andy Tucker in this weekend’s Donington Park BEC round. He will continue in Britcar Trophy.
Overend told Motorsport News: “A year ago I’d driven once on a track before, at Castle Combe years and years ago, but that was just in a road car.
“And in the space of a year I’ve gone from driving the Polo with hand controls, to driving the [BMW] 118, racing the 118 and stepping up to the 240 and then racing the 240 throughout the season and now having the opportunity to drive in the British Endurance Championship in the Aston.
“My goal at the start of the season was just to finish every race so I could get the signatures for my licence, I never could have dreamed we would be leading the [Britcar Trophy] championship.”