FOX JOINS GB4 FOR 2023
Team aims for immediate success in single-seater contest that will bridge Ginetta Junior and GT
Leading GT squad Fox Motorsport will join the GB4 championship next season with a minimum two-car line up for the team’s first full single-seater campaign.
Its Ginetta Junior driver Liam McNeilly will fill one of the seats in the junior single-seater contest. McNeilly, the 16-year-old son of team principal Paul, finished third with the team in the Ginetta Junior standings this season and second in 2021.
Fox this year won its first overall British GT race at Spa, and has won races in the International GT Open and 24H Series and taken titles in Ginetta GT5 Challenge and Ginetta GT4 Supercup. Team boss McNeilly views GB4 as a transition between Ginetta Junior and top-level GT racing where Fox already operates. The team is set to begin testing its GB4 Tatuus F4-T104s in December.
This is a further entry boost for GB4 after several additions for last weekend’s inaugural season finale at Donington Park (see MN, October 13) resulted in a grid of 14. Turnout slipped to single figures at Brands Hatch last month.
Paul McNeilly said: “GB4 will serve as an accessible learning platform for drivers to progress from our Ginetta Junior team and learn key skills such as racing with slicks and wings, while doing it without driver aids like traction control or ABS.
“We’re going in with high targets. We aim to compete at the front straight away and win races. We’ve won at every level we’ve competed at and I don’t see why we should expect any less in GB4.”