Expanded GB3 grid set for Silverstone's second half starter

Expanded GB3 grid set for Silverstone's second half starter

01 August 2025

The second half of the 2025 GB3 Championship campaign gets underway at Silverstone this weekend, with an expanded 24-car grid set to do battle around the British Grand Prix venue.

The field is boosted by returns from Chris Dittmann Racing and Hillspeed with two-car line-ups, and VRD Racing increasing to a full three-car roster.

Australians continue to rule the 2025 season, with four drivers from Down Under filling the top-five in this year’s standings. Rodin Motorsport’s Alex Ninovic continues to lead the championship, and built a handy 34 point margin at the top of the pile last time out in Hungary, claiming a third win of the season to create the biggest lead yet.

He’s followed by Xcel Motorsport’s Patrick Heuzenroeder, a race-winner at Zandvoort earlier in the year, with Ninovic’s teammate Gianmarco Pradel rising to third after the Hungaroring event, courtesy of his own first victory in GB3.

Hitech TGR’s Deagen Fairclough breaks the Aussie monopoly of the top-five, he’s equal on points with Pradel and is desperate for a first win, as is JHR’s Noah Lisle, who completes the lead quintet.

Will Macintyre is the lead Elite Motorsport runner at present, and was the reverse grid winner at Silverstone earlier in the season, while just four points further back is Hitech’s resurgent Keanu Al Azhari, who taken three podiums from the past seven races and a breakthrough pole in Hungary.

Argenti with Prema joined the GB3 winner’s list in the Hungaroring finale courtesy of a rampant Reza Seewooruthun, who pulled over 16 seconds clear of the pack to threaten the record for the biggest ever winning margin in the series.

That performance elevated Seewooruthun up to eighth in the standings ahead of VRD’s Zandvoort winner Hugo Schwarze, who has taken podiums at each of the last three GB3 rounds.

Next up is Seewooruthun’s teammate Lucas Fluxa, the Spaniard aiming to rise into the top-10 at Silverstone, with JHR’s Kai Daryanani returning to the scene of a podium finish back in April.

Rodin’s F1 Academy champion Abbi Pulling heads back to the location of her best GB3 weekend so far, where she qualified inside the top-four and claimed two top-six finishes.

Mercedes F1 junior Yuanpu Cui is next up, with the Chinese driver switching to Hillspeed for this round, and placed ahead of Xcel’s Jack Sherwood and Elite Motorsport duo Flynn Jackes and Bianca Bustamante, with both buoyed by their series best results in Hungary, where Jackes just missed out on a podium spot.

Newcomers and returnees then complete this weekend’s entry list, with VRD’s Enzo Tarnvanichkul back in the iconic Red Bull colours for the rest of the year. The Thai driver edged closer to the top-10 during his sole GB3 appearance so far, at the season-opening Silverstone event, and is joined at the squad by Patricio Gonzalez, a 16-year-old Mexican with two years of American single-seater racing under his belt already.

His older brother Rodrigo also joins GB3 for Silverstone, the 19-year-old has similar single-seater experience and will race for Chris Dittmann Racing, where he’ll be joined by 16-year-old Australian Nicolas Stati, a front-runner in Formula Regional Americas and a race-winner in F4 USA.

Hillspeed has enjoyed its best GB3 campaign so far, with four wins, three pole positions and four fastest laps to its name already this year. Michael Shin returns to the series for this weekend with the squad, having raced in various European categories across the past two seasons.

Divy Nandan is back in GB3 action as the Indian driver completes JHR's three-car line-up for the event, while Argenti with Prema's F4 graduate August Raber and Xcel Motorsport's Sri Lankan sensation Yevan David are late entries, and set for their GB3 debuts. 

As ever, all the racing action this weekend will be streamed live by clicking this link.

GB3 Championship, partnered by the BRDC, Silverstone entry list:
#3 Lucas Fluxa, Argenti with Prema
#5 Patrick Heuzenroeder, Xcel Motorsport
#6 Keanu Al Azhari, Hitech TGR
#7 Deagen Fairclough, Hitech TGR
#8 Enzo Tarnvanichkul, VRD Racing
#9 Abbi Pulling, Rodin Motorsport
#10 Reza Seewooruthun, Argenti with Prema
#11 Noah Lisle, JHR Developments
#12 Alex Ninovic, Rodin Motorsport
#14 Rodrigo Gonzalez, Chris Dittmann Racing
#15 Nicolas Stati, Chris Dittmann Racing
#16 Bianca Bustamante, Elite Motorsport
#17 Divy Nandan, JHR Developments
#21 Gianmarco Pradel, Rodin Motorsport
#24 Michael Shin, Hillspeed
#33 Hugo Schwarze, VRD Racing
#35 Patricio Gonzalez, VRD Racing
#37 Will Macintyre, Elite Motorsport
#44 Yevan David, Xcel Motorsport
#47 August Raber, Argenti with Prema
#55 Flynn Jackes, Elite Motorsport
#56 Yuanpu Cui, Hillspeed
#78 Jack Sherwood, Xcel Motorsport
#88 Kai Daryanani, JHR Developments

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