OULTON PARK CALLS AGAIN FOR BRSCC WITH FUNCUP AND CO
The British Racing & Sports Car Club prepares to visit the sweeps and climbs of the awesome Oulton Park International circuit in Cheshire for the second time in 2025, as it brings with it another exciting mix of endurance and sprint racing. With the second outings of the year for the FunCup Endurance Championship, Fiesta ST240s, BMW SuperCup and CityCar Cup, all four will be ready to put on a great show for spectators and live stream viewers alike.
Off the back of a thrilling Brands Hatch season opener, the Fun Cup Endurance Championship is back in town at its spiritual home of Oulton Park, with a field of teams ready to pick up where they left off from Kent. Such is the level of talent and competition in this year’s field that several teams have a genuine chance at victory on paper, but despite this it was defending champions Olympian-GRD that still managed to work their way to victory at Brands Hatch and head to Cheshire as the points leaders.
Multi-time champs UVio/ Hofmann’s Motorsport pushed them all the way to take second place and have been perennial rivals to Olympian-GRD for the past couple of years, so it’ll be no surprise to see both at the head of the field by race’s end. Other threats on the entry list that are sure to give this pair some headaches throughout include Racelogic, PLR Racing, GCI Racing and Sheradize, all of whom have been previous champion teams and won’t be afraid to show their teeth when challenging at the front.
The sprint races at Oulton are also certain to produce plenty of entertainment all day, too. The Nankang Tyre CityCar Cup Championship is heading to Oulton Park with an expected capacity grid full of Citroen C1s, Peugeot 107s and Toyota Aygos ready to rumble. This year’s grid has already become one of this season’s healthiest and best supported within BRSCC right now and competition will be high after an intense opening meeting at Snetterton a few weeks ago.
Back in Norfolk, wins were split between defending champion Stuart Bliss, Joshua Jackson and Christopher Mackenzie, but there were several more drivers that also shared podiums between them too. Others who must be counted into contention for at least a top three finish include Richard Jepp, Andrew Dyer, newcomer Ben Spencer, Sandro Proietti, Alistair May and Philip House, just to name a few.
Also be sure to watch out for the Student Motorsport contest within the CityCar grid, as Boston College Racing look to dethrone three time champions Northbrook Racing. Further competition also comes from Sussex Motorsport, East Surrey College, West Suffolk College ME and more.
For faster hot hatch fans, the AIRTEC Motorsport Fiesta ST240 Championship will whet your appetites and are certain to put on a great show after they delivered a superb season opener at Snetterton themselves. Despite not winning a race a few weeks ago, defending champion Alastair Kellett scored strong enough in Norfolk to head to Oulton this Saturday as the points leader overall and in Pro class. Ideally, he’d love to be on the top step and he’ll be gunning to reach it here.
That said, this year’s front running group looks to be one of the strongest since the ST240s began racing in 2020. His main contenders in Pro are already looking to give him headaches, including John Cooper, Gary Miller and Zach Lucas who all shared the Snetterton spoils between them. Ones to watch will also be George Foxlow, Sean Reynolds, Simon Horrobin, James Pope and Morgan Kidd. As for the Club class, newcomer Jason O’Connell impressed on his debut with a hat-trick of wins, and will wish to keep that momentum up against Dan Robinson, Maggie Webster, Luke Warr and more.
The newly-formed Nankang Tyre BMW SuperCup Championship had an excellent start to its new life as a combined grid at Snetterton, and there’s another superb turn out for the second round at Oulton. Snetterton saw a great back and forth between top 1 Series contenders Danny Wilkinson and Millie Hart, the pair constantly trading places in every race but ending in Wilkinson coming out on top. Others in class sure to mount a challenge include Thorburn Astin, Chris Stretton, Simon Waterfall and David Meadows.
Over in the Compact Cup class, defending champion managed a victory at Snetterton, but find himself currently in third behind points leader Joe Doble and 2023 Compact champion Gareth Claydon. This year’s collective of Compacts looks as though it’s going to be mighty close between the front runners, especially with the aforementioned trio in the mix. Other strong contenders to watch will be Adam Wright, Max Noble, Paul Mousell, Keith Towers and Matt Kendall.
Written by Scott Woodwiss
