GT3 Legends brought its 2026 season to a close at the BRDC Classic, the third and final weekend of a campaign that ran from Donington to Spa and on to Silverstone. Two races on the Grand Prix layout stayed true to the season’s form: the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3s set the pace, and it was Jonathan Mitchell and Graham Davidson who shared the wins.
Race 1: Mitchell heads Aston Martin one-two in Silverstone opener
Of all the grids on show at the BRDC Classic, GT3 Legends served up one of Saturday’s busier races, a red flag and a late safety car bookending Jonathan Mitchell’s win.
It went wrong before the field had cleared the first corner. The front row streamed through Copse cleanly, Mitchell leading the #7 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 – an ex-The Racers Group car – from Graham Davidson’s DTB Motorsport-run #47 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, in the 2010s entered by Oman Racing and Jetstream Motorsport in the Blancpain GT Series and British GT Championship. Behind them it unravelled at the same corner. Sam Neary’s #30 Team Abba Racing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3, the #192 Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 of Julian Thomas and Nick Sampson’s Aston Martin came together and spun, several more cars picking up minor damage as they threaded through. Out came the red flag.
Mitchell leads the restart
Racing resumed with 39 minutes left, Mitchell heading Davidson and Phil Keen, the latter a popular sight in the #25 former works Reiter Engineering Chevrolet Camaro GT3. Danny Winstanley shadowed Keen in the Pirelli World Challenge #78 Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3.
The run to the pit window stayed clean. The one shift of note came as Charlie Kennedy’s garage-rebuilt #23 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 tried to hang on to Winstanley, lost pace and dropped into the clutches of Max Lynn, whose old Always Evolving #5 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 moved up to fifth.
Late contact brings out the safety car
Just as the pitstop window opened, it turned. Christoph von Oeynhausen’s #888 Classic & Speed BMW Z4 GT3, once a Triple Eight car, made contact with the #24 Blancpain Reiter Lamborghini Gallardo GT3, and the safety car was called.
The stoppage left only minutes on the clock, but the racing held up. Jimmy Broadbent, in for Max Lynn, used the wave-around to close back up, but without breaking into the podium fight. That was Winstanley and Keen’s to settle, the Camaro all over the Audi but never finding a way through.
Mitchell took the win by under a second from Davidson, making it an Aston Martin one-two. Winstanley held on for third, while Keen settled for fourth, five seconds clear of the Lynn/Broadbent Nissan in fifth.
Race 2: Davidson strikes back
The Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 rivalry picked up where it left off on Sunday. Mitchell and Davidson took the green from the front row, and Davidson briefly grabbed the lead into Copse before a wiggle through Maggotts ran him wide and handed first place back to Mitchell. Phil Keen underlined the pace of the leading pair, sitting right on Davidson’s tail in the Camaro but, once again, unable to find a way past.
Mitchell slows and hands over the lead
Mitchell’s lead lasted only a few minutes. He slowed suddenly and crawled to the pits with a technical problem, handing the lead to the scrapping Davidson and Keen and promoting Danny Winstanley to third as the Audi driver kept up his march forward.
Further back, fourth was being fought over by Richard Neary’s #30 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and Max Lynn in the #5 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3. The Nissan eventually dropped pace – a recurring theme for the GT-Rs – easing the pressure on the gullwing Mercedes.
Davidson clears off for the win
After the stops, Davidson was freed from Keen’s attentions. Professional drivers carry a longer pit stop under the class rules, and that dropped the Camaro back and cleared the way for Davidson to see out his second win of the season.
Winstanley took the #78 Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 to second, while a third Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 completed the podium – the ex-Prodrive works #18 of Kyle Tilley and Christian Albrecht run by Era Motorsport.
Max Lynn and Jimmy Broadbent looked set for fourth, but Broadbent had no answer to the firepower behind him. Keen’s Camaro and Scott Malvern – sharing the TF Sport original #13 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 with Shaun Lynn – made short work of the Nissan on Hangar Straight and pulled clear. Keen came home fourth ahead of Malvern and Shaun Lynn, with Broadbent and Max Lynn fifth.
Season ends in style
Two wins from two starts made a fitting sign-off for the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, and for a GT3 Legends field that ran hard from Donington through Spa to Silverstone. With Motor Racing Legends continuing to put these cars back on track at the circuits that shaped them, the category closes 2026 with plenty to carry into next season.
