After a month’s break, the GB4 Championship returns to action this weekend (22-26 May) at Oulton Park, with a massive grid of F1 hopefuls set to resume battle after six frenetic opening races so far in 2025.
The arrival of the Tatuus MSV GB4-025 car has led to record grid levels in the series this year, and plenty of competition too. Five different drivers have taken wins in the first six races, with no less than 10 already claiming podium silverware!
It’s Hillspeed’s Daniel Guinchard who heads a tightly matched pack at the top of the grid, with just two points covering the lead quartet with a quarter of the season gone already!
Guinchard is the most experienced of the front-runners, and he put that to good use with a victory in the Silverstone finale last time out, meaning the British-Polish contender has led the standings at the end of every event so far. He’s also the only driver in the top-four to have scored points at each time of asking, meaning his championship lead is as a result of not just success, but consistency too.
Behind him, all three Elite drivers have exactly the same points tally – 122 apiece. Ginetta Junior graduate Isaac Phelps holds the de facto second place in the standings at the moment, with two wins to his name so far, ahead of Japanese-Greek ace Alex Kattoulas, with a win, a second and two thirds, with India’s Ary Bansal next up, having claimed a win, a second and a third. It’s already the most intense title battle in GB4’s history, especially with a £50,000 career contribution prize on offer for this year’s champion.
All the pole positions have gone the way of Elite’s drivers this year, with Phelps and Kattoulas taking doubles at Donington Park and Silverstone respectively. The yellow cars are most definitely targets for the rest of the grid!
Behind the epic four-way battle at the front, the second Hillspeed contender of late braker Leandro Juncos is next up, with the Argentine driver claiming his first podium last time out at Silverstone, the first silverware of his car racing career.
Australian Jack Taylor has enjoyed a resurgence in form in his second GB4 campaign, and sits sixth overall having taken his first podium of the year in race one at Silverstone. Douglas Motorsport’s Swede Enzo Hallman is just a point further back and looking to add to the podium he scored at Donington.
Canadian Alex Berg, son of former F1 racer Allen is eighth, and took a memorable victory for Graham Brunton Racing at Donington Park, adding to F4 triumphs in the USA and the UK.
Irishman Alex O’Grady heads reigning champions KMR Sport’s charge – he proved he could carve through the field with 35 places gained at Donington Park, and has the pace to put his car at the front of the field.
The second Graham Brunton Racing car of Mayer Deonarine completes the early top-10. The returning Canadian is getting quicker all the time, and a podium will come sooner rather than later.
Just a point further back is Arden’s returnee Leon Wilson, who may only be 11th in the standings, but should shoot up the order given the pace shown so far this year.
Douglas Motorsport’s Dayton Coulthard took a massive stride forward at Silverstone, the son of multiple F1 race winner David Coulthard registered three top-eight finishes at the home of the British Grand Prix as he pushes closer to the front.
The Scot is five points clear of the third Graham Brunton Racing machine of Canadian Callum Baxter, another returning driver and one with podium experience from 2024.
Coulthard’s teammate Luke Hilton was the testing pace setter on several occasions pre-season, so expect him to shoot up the order this weekend as he bounces back from a tricky Silverstone event, while ADM’s Jason Pribyl took his and his team’s first slicks and wings podium in race three after a superb drive that could have even netted a win.
Fortec’s Thomas Ingram Hill has shown all the signs of a front-running challenge while Arden’s Ava Dobson is back in GB4 after making an F1 Academy wildcard appearance in Miami earlier in the month. She currently heads the battle to be this year’s top female GB4 driver, and claim the €50,000 prize towards a potential F1 Academy seat that goes with it.
Josh McLean continues to make progress in his first single-seater season for Pace Performance, and sits four points clear of Fortec’s Luca Magnussen, the third driver with F1 links on this year’s grid!
KMR’s Megan Bruce is next up, with Fox Motorsport’s Ginetta Junior graduate Holly Miall just a point further back.
Her American teammate Caitlyn McDaniel and the third KMR car of Lily Watkins completes the Oulton Park entry, with both drivers finding chunks of time each time they get in the car during their first car racing campaigns.
As ever, GB4 will race three times this weekend, with qualifying on Saturday determining the grid for race one, with each driver’s second quickest times forming the line-up for the start of race two on Monday morning. The quickest 12 drivers are then reversed on the grid for the event finale on Monday afternoon, with the rest of the grid lining up behind them.
Phelps, Coulthard and Hilton will each serve a three place grid penalty for their first race this weekend, following incidents at Silverstone.
All this weekend’s races will be shown live and in full on the official championship website www.gb-4.net, as well as on the MSV TV YouTube page.
Oulton Park entry list:
#3 Alex O’Grady, KMR Sport, Ireland
#7 Enzo Hallman, Douglas Motorsport, Sweden
#8 Thomas Ingram Hill, Fortec Motorsport, United Kingdom
#9 Megan Bruce, KMR Sport, United Kingdom
#15 Lily May Watkins, KMR Sport, United Kingdom
#23 Luca Magnussen, Fortec Motorsport, Denmark
#27 Leon Wilson, Arden Motorsport, United Kingdom
#28 Dayton Coulthard, Douglas Motorsport, United Kingdom
#32 Luke Hilton, Douglas Motorsport, United Kingdom
#35 Isaac Phelps, Elite Motorsport, United Kingdom
#44 Mayer Deonarine, Graham Brunton Racing, Canada
#45 Callum Baxter, Graham Brunton Racing, Canada
#46 Ary Bansal, Elite Motorsport, India
#48 Holly Miall, Fox Motorsport, United Kingdom
#49 Daniel Guinchard, Hillspeed, United Kingdom
#50 Jack Taylor, Fortec Motorsport, Australia
#51 Alex Kattoulas, Elite Motorsport, Japanese-Greek
#55 Ava Dobson, Arden Motorsport, United States of America
#59 Jason Pribyl, ADM, United States of America
#76 Josh McLean, Pace Performance, United Kingdom
#77 Leandro Juncos, Hillspeed, Argentinean-American
#88 Caitlyn McDaniel, Fox Motorsport, United States of America
#98 Alex Berg, Graham Brunton Racing, Canada