GB3 front-runner Fortec Motorsport has completed its 2023 GB3
Championship line-up with the signing of British F4 graduate Edward
Pearson.
16-year-old Pearson claimed 17 top-ten finishes in a consistent
maiden single-seater campaign in 2022, as he stepped up to British
F4 from Ginetta Juniors. His season ended in impressive style in
October as he banked two top-five finishes on the Brands Hatch
Grand Prix circuit, his best results of the year.
The Surrey resident's F4 campaign came after a strong Ginetta
Junior season in 2021, where he first demonstrated traits of his
constant improvement trend, banking a maiden car racing podium in
the final race of the year, also at Brands Hatch.
Preceding his graduation to car racing, Edward was an impressive
contender in a brief karting career, placing fifth overall in the
2019 British Kart Championship X30 Mini division, and he took the
same position in the IAME Winter Cup X30 Junior category a year
later.
He now steps up to another level for the fourth consecutive
season, and joins Max Esterson and Jarrod Waberski in Fortec's GB3
line-up for 2023.
Edward Pearson said: "I am really looking forward
to joining such a prestigious team; Fortec bring a higher level of
engineering to the car set up than I have experienced in the past,
I am really excited by the possibilities!"
Fortec Motorsport Team Manager Oliver Dutton
said: "We're really pleased to complete our GB3 line-up
with Edward. He's certainly not afraid of a challenge, his rapid
rise from karting to GB3 through Ginetta Junior and F4 is testament
to that, and he's shown encouraging signs of being a driver with
plenty of potential, given that his results have constantly
improved as the last two seasons have gone on.
"We look forward to working with him to further extract that
potential, and are confident that he can be right in the mix with
what's going to be a very strong grid throughout the year."
01 February 2023
