GB3’S ESTERSON SWITCHES TO FORTEC
GB3 race-winner Max Esterson has switched to Fortec Motorsport from Douglas Motorsport for his second season in the junior single-seater contest in 2023.
The 20-year-old American graduated from Formula Ford to slick and wings in GB3 this year, and sat as high as third in the table mid-season before slipping to seventh.
Esterson also has been imperious in FF1600’s blueriband end-of-season events. In 2021 he won the Walter Hayes Trophy dominantly having finished second in the Formula Ford Festival. This year he added a Festival win, then was first home in the Hayes before a time penalty.
Esterson said: “It will be nice for the first time ever for me to be doing a second year in a series – and great to be doing it with a team like Fortec who have such a tradition of success. I was fortunate to have tested a variety of cars at the end of the year and, while I had offers to head to Europe in 2023, I’m still early in my career and have a lot to learn.”
Fortec boss Ollie Dutton added: “Signing Max shows how determined we are to challenge for the GB3 title again in 2023.”