2023 GB4 Championship

The 2023 GB4 Championship partnered by the BRDC was the second season of a motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars in Britain. The 2023 season, which had been organised by MotorSport Vision, was run over seven triple-header rounds.

GB4 will act as a direct feeder series to higher open-wheel categories, including the existing GB3 Championship partnered by the BRDC. GB4 will run primarily on the same British GT race programme as GB3, and retain many of the same championship partners.

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
KMR Sport	3	Jack Clifford[1]	All
	21	Tom Mills	1–6
	87	Jeremy Fairbairn[2]	1–3
	88	Lucas Blakeley[3]	4, 7
Oldfield Motorsport	4	Jason Conzo[4]	1–2
Rossoverde Racing	5	Christian Lester	2
Evans GP	8	Kai Daryanani[5]	3, 6
	37	Cooper Webster[6]	All
	56	Thomas Lee[7]	All
Fortec Motorsport	10	Dan Hickey	7
	15	Aditya Kulkarni[8]	3–7
	23		1–2
	27	Ruhaan Alva[9]	1–5
	62	Colin Queen[10]	All
Velocity Racing Development	14	Erik Evans[11]	5
	97	Zack Ping[11]	5–7
Elite Motorsport	16	Josh Irfan	1, 3, 6
	17	Harri Reynolds	1–3
	18	Finn Harrison	7
	19	Theo Micouris	7
Fox Motorsport	48	Liam McNeilly[12]	All
	99	Sid Smith[13]	All
Dylan Hotchin Racing	50	Dylan Hotchin[14]	All
Graham Brunton Racing	68	Harry Burgoyne Jr.[15]	All
	87	Jeremy Fairbairn[16]	4
	91	Sebastian Murray[17]	6–7
Belk Racing	98	Lexie Belk	7
Source:[18]

Race calendar and results

The provisional calendar was announced on 15 October 2022. The championship will support the British GT championship at six of its seven meetings.^[19]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Oulton Park (International Circuit, Cheshire)	8 April	Tom Mills	Liam McNeilly	Jeremy Fairbairn	KMR Sport
	R2		10 April	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R3				Liam McNeilly	Liam McNeilly	Fox Motorsport
2	R4	Silverstone Circuit (Grand Prix Circuit, Northamptonshire)	6 May	Tom Mills	race cancelled due to weather conditions, rescheduled to 27 May[20]
	R5		7 May	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R6				Harri Reynolds	Harri Reynolds	Elite Motorsport
3	R4	Donington Park (Grand Prix Circuit, Leicestershire)	27 May	Tom Mills	Cooper Webster	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R7			Tom Mills	Colin Queen	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R8		28 May	Colin Queen	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R9				Tom Mills	Liam McNeilly	Fox Motorsport
4	R10	Snetterton Circuit (300 Circuit, Norfolk)	17–18 June	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Evans GP
	R11			Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R12				Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Evans GP
5	R13	Silverstone Circuit (Grand Prix Circuit, Northamptonshire)	29–30 July	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R14			Tom Mills	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R15				race cancelled due to adverse weather conditions[21]
6	R16	Brands Hatch (Grand Prix Circuit, Kent)	9–10 September	Tom Mills	Cooper Webster	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R17			Tom Mills	Tom Mills	Tom Mills	KMR Sport
	R18				Liam McNeilly	Kai Daryanani	Evans GP
7	R19	Donington Park (Grand Prix Circuit, Leicestershire)	21–22 October	Cooper Webster	Liam McNeilly	Cooper Webster	Evans GP
	R20			Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Evans GP
	R21				Colin Queen	Cooper Webster	Evans GP

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top 20 classified finishers in races one and two, with the third race awarding points to only the top 15. Race three, which had its grid formed by reversing the qualifying order, awarded extra points for positions gained from the drivers' respective starting positions.

Races	Position, points per race
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Races 1 & 2	35	29	24	21	19	17	15	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Race 3	20	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver OUL SIL1 DON1 SNE SIL2 BRH DON2 Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 1 Tom Mills 2 1 6^7 C 1 3^8 1 1 1 4^9 2 1 3^7 1 1 C 1 1 7^4 505 2 Cooper Webster 3 11 9^2 C 3 Ret 2 2 2 2^9 1 2 1^10 4 2 C 3 2 4^4 1 1 1^10 494 3 Liam McNeilly 6 2 1^8 C 7 5^2 6 4 8 1^7 5 4 10 2 3 C 2 3 3^7 2 3 7^3 419 4 Colin Queen 4 Ret 3^7 C 2 4^6 3 3 3 13 3 3 5^4 3 4 C 4 9 12 7 2 2^7 379 5 Aditya Kulkarni 11 7 11 C 11 7 11 9 6 3^4 10 6 2 7 7 C 8 10 2 9 8 3^3 256 6 Harry Burgoyne Jr. 9 5 8 C 8 10^2 7 10 9 5 4 8 9 9 8 C 7 6 Ret 5 6 4 256 7 Jack Clifford 8 10 10 C 6 6 8 7 Ret 9 8 11 4 5 6 C 10 8 8 13 Ret 13 207 8 Sid Smith 13 Ret 5 C 9 Ret 5 12 7 7 9 5 Ret 8 10 C 6 5 5 8 Ret 11 203 9 Jeremy Fairbairn 1 6 12 C 5 9 4 5 4 6 7 9 6 190 10 Ruhaan Alva 7 Ret 7 C 14 2 10 8 5 14 6 10 8 6 5 C 165 11 Dylan Hotchin 14 8 13^1 C 13 12^1 13 DNS Ret Ret 12 12 Ret 12 11 C 12 12 10^3 10 10 Ret 132 12 Harri Reynolds 10 4 2^5 C 4 1^5 9 13 Ret 11 125 13 Josh Irfan 5 3 4^4 6 Ret 10 5 7 Ret 117 14 Thomas Lee 15 DNS DNS C Ret Ret 12 14 11 12^3 13 13 DSQ 13 12 C 14 13 11^3 12 Ret 12^4 113 15 Lucas Blakeley 11 7 7^1 3 5 5 89 16 Zack Ping 10 Ret C 13 4 6^3 4 Ret Ret 74 17 Sebastian Murray 11 11 9^3 11 9 9^3 62 18 Kai Daryanani 11 10 8 9 Ret 1 61 19 Theo Micouris 6 7 6^2 44 20 Jason Conzo 12 9 Ret C 10 8 40 21 Finn Harrison Ret 4 8 29 22 Erik Evans 11 9 C 22 23 Christian Lester C 12 11^4 18 24 Lexie Belk Ret 11 14^1 13 25 Dan Hickey Ret Ret 10^4 10 Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Pts OUL SIL1 DON1 SNE SIL2 BRH DON2 Source:[22]

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Teams' championship

Pos.	Team	Points
1	KMR Sport	837
2	Fortec Motorsport	678
3	Evans GP	629
4	Fox Motorsport	622
5	Graham Brunton Racing	355
6	Elite Motorsport	315
7	Dylan Hotchin Racing	132
8	Velocity Racing Development	96
9	Oldfield Motorsport	40
10	Rossoverde Racing	18
11	Belk Racing	13

Notes

References

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15. Whitfield, Steve (2023-02-13). "Kart star Harry Burgoyne Jr joins GB4 grid with Graham Brunton Racing". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
16. Whitfield, Steve (2023-06-14). "Jeremy Fairbairn makes GB4 switch to Graham Brunton Racing". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
17. Wood, Ida (2023-09-04). "Seb Murray joins Graham Brunton Racing in GB4". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
18. "GB4 Teams". www.gb-4.net. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
19. "2023 Calendar Confirmed for GB4 Championship". gb-4.net. 15 October 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
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External links

• Official website