BOSSES SUPPORT GB4 CALENDAR TRIM FOR SECOND SEASON IN 2023
GB4 team chiefs have said the championship’s bosses are correct to not retain its standalone season-opener round for the junior single-seater contest’s second year in 2023.
The first-ever GB4 meeting, held earlier this year, was its own headline round at Snetterton, and was followed by seven meetings at British GT or GB3 headline events. GB4’s calendar for 2023 is largely identical expect the standalone round is dropped.
Hillspeed boss Richard Ollerenshaw told Motorsport News: “The championship is an opportunity for drivers to enter single-seaters. It had one blip, [it] should have never consisted of eight rounds in its first year, and it certainly should not have been launched with a standalone meeting as early as it did in the year. Everyone was starting from scratch. [Organiser] MSV are very proactive to looking at things, so much so that the championship has been reduced from eight events to seven.”
Fortec boss Ollie Dutton concurred. “The first round, standalone round, didn’t need to be there and they’ve got rid of that,” he told MN. “But apart from that everyone’s learning it and trying to figure it out but they’ve done a good job, so there’s nothing really negative I can say about [GB4].”