GB4 ACE WABERSKI STEPS UP TO GB3 WITH FORTEC
GB4 runner-up is described as “a driver to watch” for 2023 as he graduates on MSVR’s single-seater ladder to GB3
GB4 runner-up Jarrod Waberski will step up to race in the GB3 championship next year with Fortec Motorsport.
The 17-year-old South African secured a last-gasp deal to race in the inaugural GB4 junior singleseater championship with Kevin Mills Racing this year, only sitting in the car for the first time two days before the season start. Waberski nevertheless took four race wins in 2022 on the way to second place in the table, behind Fortec’s Nikolas Taylor.
It was Waberski’s first season of competition outside of South Africa. In 2021 he finished runnerup in his homeland’s Formula 1600 championship, and he also won the South African karting title in 2018.
Waberski joins Max Esterson at the team and has already had several winter testing days in the GB3 Tatuus MSV-022 car.
Waberski said: “[Fortec] have such a fantastic heritage in UK motorsport and have always had the will to win. So together I believe we can achieve something special in the 2023 GB3 championship.”
Fortec team manager Ollie Dutton added: “We were able to follow Jarrod’s progress very closely this year, as he pushed us all the way for the GB4 title. That he was able to do so with little to no pre-season preparation was very impressive, in fact, he’s already had more experience of GB3 machinery than he did with the GB4 car before this season.
“From what we’ve seen so far, he’s definitely going to be a driver to watch as he moves up with us next year.”