Freddie Slater, Noah Lisle and Gianmarco Pradel were the top-three finishers in the first race of the 2025 GB3 Championship season at Silverstone. Here's how each driver reacted at the end of the season opener.
Winner, Freddie Slater, Hillspeed:
“It was great, obviously there was a risk of rain, as we were going up into Stowe there was a big cloud coming so I knew I had to keep building my margin for a bit of a cushion. Overall super positive, the team gave me a great car to go out there and do what I just did. The pace has been great today and we’ll see what we can do tomorrow.
"We actually managed to make a slight few changes for the regulations for a race-run spec car let’s say, similar to what Formula 3 do, so it’s a bit of a new thing for all the teams so we all went into it a bit unknown, so nobody was really sure what was going to happen. But we came out on top and the car feels good so that’s the main thing.
"We'll have the same plan for tomorrow, we’ll see what the track conditions are like in the morning and should be good fun.”
Second, Noah Lisle, JHR Developments:
“I got a good start, good launch off the line. I don’t think too many people had done practice starts and everyone kind of got bogged down a bit but I think we got away with it. I managed to make up the position and I had a little look up the inside of Freddie going into Maggotts and Becketts but ultimately I think he had the edge on us for speed anyway, so it would have been a hard race from there but I’m very happy.
"We’ll look overnight to try and find something to get a bit closer to Fred and then hopefully we can be in a bit more of a fight, but P2 again tomorrow would be achievable so we’ll aim for that.”
Third, Gianmarco Pradel, Rodin Motorsport:
"After the start which didn’t go the best, it was really just a big battle and the dirty air was a lot more in these cars than I thought it was going to be and it was really difficult to stay close. Overall I felt it was a decent race. Really consistent and I was able to try and work on a few bits that I needed to. Happy with the result and there could have been more but we can always say that.
"I think tomorrow I need to make the start a bit better, that’s the most obvious change. I can just send it a bit more and I know how the car can behave a bit better. We’ll see a bit more passing tomorrow.”