After a weekend of intrigue at Snetterton, the British GT Championship comes back from its summer break with a intriguing penultimate round at the iconic Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in a weekend where, in theory, both titles could be wrapped up with one race still to go. 

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GT3

With two action-packed 60-minute races in Norfolk, the trip to Brands Hatch sees a return to the familiar with one two-hour enduro set to test team tactics, and driver patience in what is always a race that features plenty of twists and turns. 

Indeed, twists and turns is how you could describe the championship battle in the top category. Two wins apiece should have kept things relatively static for the two 2 Seas Motorsport entries but Snetterton’s second race proved a key differential. While Maxi Götz and Kevin Tse added their race two win to a second in the opener, teammates Kiern Jewiss and Charles Dawson won the opener but were slapped with a time penalty that dropped them down to eighth. 

That means only eight points separates the two crews, with 75 still to play for at Brands Hatch and the Donington Park finale. In theory, Dawson and Jewiss could walk away from this very weekend with the title, but – keeping with the number eight – Tse and Götz must finish lower than eighth, and Dawson & Jewiss win, for that to become a reality. 

While they might be fighting each other, they need to keep an eye over their shoulders as Blackthorn AMR’s Giacomo Petrobelli and Jonny Adam might have had a mixed weekend last time out, but Adam is a British GT legend for a reason and he knows how to see a championship fight swing in his favour through sheer force of will. 

With plenty of points still available, you could quite easily argue there’s quite a few more crews who would rightly argue that the title fight isn’t just a three-horse race. Marvin Kirchhöfer has proven to be one of the fastest racers over one lap in British GT this year, but alongside Morgan Tillbrook the Optimum Motorsport pair haven’t had luck on their side and a bad weekend all round for McLaren crews at Snetterton means they have a bit of ground to make up.

They’re on 100 points, just like Barwell Motorsport’s Alex Martin who will again be partnered by Patrick Kujala in the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2. A podium for the second Barwell entry of Hugo Cook and Rob Collard at Snetterton means the former is on 94.5 points – Collard, having missed the opener due to injury, is on 82.5 – and well within the fight for a first title. 

Away from the title fight, there’s not too much change to the entry list compared to last time out, except for Jon Kearney – who raced with Will Moore at Silverstone in a Century Motorsport BMW – will now be racing this weekend alongside Callum Macleod in the second of the Optimum McLaren 720S GT3s. 

Missing from Brands is the Spirit of Race Ferrari of Duncan Cameron and Matt Griffin, with the former racing instead in the European Le Mans Series.

GT4

The title battle is a lot simpler in GT4, where just two crews are realistically in with a chance of taking home the title.

After a win at Snetterton, it’s very much advantage Jack Brown and Marc Warren in the Optimum McLaren Artura. 23.5 points ahead, Brown can become the first driver to win two GT4 titles – and the first Pro-Am crew to take the crown since 2016 – as long as they outscore Ravi Ramyead and Charlie Robertson by 14 points. 

Robertson and Ramyead took victory in Snetterton’s second race meaning only they and their Optimum rivals have won in GT4 this season. But with Warren and Brown finishing down the order in that same race, it’s the Century Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 crew who have full success seconds in the pits and those 20 seconds could prove crucial. 

In theory, Optimum’s second Artura of Harry George and Luca Hopkinson could take the title, but they’re sitting 69.5 points behind, meaning they’d need to hope neither of the cars ahead of them score points over the next two weekends – highly unlikely. Instead, they’re focusing on the Silver Cup, where they’ve got a deficit of four points to make up on Century’s Branden Templeton and Chris Salkeld. 

The latter have to serve extra time in the pits too, giving George and Hopkinson the ideal opportunity to close the gap and even move into the lead ahead of the Donington Decider.

Like GT3, there’s a slight change to entry list where Steven Lake has stepped back from his seat in the #69 Mahiki Racing Ginetta G56 GT4 Evo. His seat will be filled by Luke Garlick – who was racing in the Bridger Motorsport Honda NSX earlier in the season. Racing alongside Blake Angliss, the car will move from the Pro-Am to the Silver Cup. 

British GT’s penultimate race of the season gets underway at 1pm UK time, 2pm in Europe, and you’ll be able to follow the whole race live on GT REPORT.