SILVERSTONE AWAITS FOR THE 2025 BRSCC 24 HOURS
One of the BRSCC’s biggest and highly anticipated events of 2025 has arrived, as we prepare to descend on the home of British motorsport this weekend. Silverstone’s full Grand Prix circuit plays host to the return of the Silverstone 24 Hours, the twice-round-the-clock favourite for many in UK club racing that is certain to produce another memorable weekend of racing for all involved.
Alongside the main event this weekend, an excellent support package is in store, with the likes of Britcar, Dutch Supercar Challenge, British F4, Caterham Graduates and the BRSCC’s very own ClubSport Trophy all guaranteed to entertain before the 24 Hours gets underway later in the afternoon!
The return of the Silverstone 24 Hours will be an exciting one for many, as one of the highlights in both the BRSCC and C1 Racing Club calendar. The grid will mainly comprise of cars regularly competing and compliant in the Silverlake C1 Endurance Series, many of which will be familiar to the 24 Hours from previous editions. From beginning the race late Saturday afternoon, racing through darkness overnight and back into the light of day, drivers and teams will face many challenges on and off track. Just making it to the chequered flag alone is a impressive feat, but to do well or even win this event, it will require a perfectly executed mix of teamwork, strategy, preparation, consistency – and even a little luck.
Looking down the entry list, there are many teams that are standouts to be in contention for the overall victory. One squad that can never be overlooked is Trojon Motorsport. Their two-car effort in the regular season is often compressed into a sole car for all five of their regular drivers under the Alpha-Trojon name, and they come back to the 24 Hours as defending winners from 2023. Often seen to win multiple C1 Endurance races in a season year on year, they will start as favourites for many. Their perennial rivals at Emax Motorsport will also be out in force, especially with no fewer than six cars running under their banner, showing just how serious they are in claiming the 24 Hour crown this year. 2023 saw a dramatic finish between the two teams fighting for the lead in the final minutes – who knows what could be in store this time…
There are plenty of other teams that could also force their way into the mix given their form over the past couple of seasons. Series sponsors Silverlake have proven to be quite the force in recent encounters, even managing to get both cars on the overall podium on the road at the previous race on the GP circuit in March, before one was penalised and demoted. WRC Developments have always been a team firmly featuring at the front more often than not, but luck and reliability have been hindrances at times to deny them victories. Perhaps this edition of the 24 Hours breaks that curse, especially with two cars entered.
J W Bird Motorsport were quick in the 2023 edition and a formidable team of drivers will certainly want to steer one of their two cars to victory lane this time, too will the likes of RABSport Racing, Scuderia Pollo Rosso, Baycon Racing with Liqui Moly and more. Other squads with top talent include #blessed featuring double MX5 SuperCup Pro champion Aidan Hills in their driving strength. Project Sixty Three features more MX-5 talent in race winners Brian Trott and Stuart Symonds amongst them. And there’s even touring car stars too – fresh from the Donington BTCC opener last weekend, 2022 champ Tom Ingram and former Independents Cup champion Josh Cook both take to the grid this weekend. Ingram features in the OPC-PR team car he’s driven a handful of times previously, while Cook takes to the 24H Racing squad in a bid to raise the winners’ trophy.
All in all, this race will be one of the highlights of the year, and certainly one that many will remember for a long time!
Outside of the main event at Silverstone, there is a buzzing support race timetable on Saturday that’s sure to get pulses racing across the board. Several high end championships and series join us this weekend, all of which will be looking to impress and perform well as their seasons progress through the early stages.
Wera Tools F4 British Championship certified by FIA
The Wera Tools F4 British Championship certified by FIA will write another chapter in its illustrious history, as the UK’s premier single-seater series celebrates its 300th race at the Home of British Motor Racing, Silverstone.
One week on from an action-packed opening weekend at Donington Park, the Class of 2025 will make the first of two visits to the Northamptonshire venue, with this season already shaping to be an ultra-competitive campaign.
That statement is reinforced by the fact that drivers from six different teams occupy the top-six positions in the Drivers’ Championship; and out front it is Chris Dittmann Racing’s Tommy Harfield who is enjoying having the early bragging rights.
Tallying a brace of podium finishes last weekend, Harfield – who also leads the Challenge Cup – heads to Silverstone holding a two-point advantage over race three winner Jimmy Piszcyk (Rodin Motorsport) while Martin Molnár (Virtuosi Racing) is a further two points in arrears.
Both August Raber (Argenti Motorsport) and Chase Fernandez (Xcel Motorsport) also stood on the top step of the podium at Donington Park and both drivers are within striking distance of the standings summit in fourth and fifth respectively.
Of course, with just one meeting in the books, the battle for supremacy is still wide open and there will be a number of drivers in addition to those already mentioned that will be eager to make their mark around the challenging 3.660-mile circuit this weekend.
Qualifying for the C1RCUIT Watches Pole Position Award takes place at 12:25 on Friday before Race 1 gets underway later that afternoon at 17:05. Races two and three will then play out on Saturday at 10:50 and 15:35 respectively.
Coverage of Saturday’s two races will be available to watch on the official British F4 YouTube channel.
Britcar Endurance Championship & SuperCar Challenge (written by Steve Wood)
The Britcar Endurance Championship started the 2025 season here at Silverstone last month, where novice Steve Gambrell, partnered by pro-driver Dan Lloyd, won both races of the double-header in the Toro Verde Porsche 991.2. The well-established Championship format of two-hour or 2 x 45- minute races feature six classes for Challenge, GT, Ginetta, Trophy, Cup, and officially-sanctioned TCR machinery.
The classes are regulated through a unique balance-of-performance system and equalisation is ensured by further regulation for pro-drivers. This weekend’s two-hour encounter will feature two mandatory pit stops, with refuelling being inevitable for all runners. While Gambrell and Lloyd head the points standings in the top Challenge class, Chris Bingham (Ginetta G55) leads the GT class, and Simon Mauger’s CUPRA tops the Trophy category. In the Ginetta class, Datum’s Maurizio Sciglio and Marco Anastasi head the points, the Team BRIT pairing of Bobby Trundley/Asha Silva share the top spot with Seat lone-driver Chris Hayes in the Cup class, and jointly leading the all-Cupra TCR standings are Jamie Hayes/Alex Read, and single driver Ash Woodman.
For this event, the Britcar field will share the race with the Netherlands-based Supercar Challenge; run along similar lines to Britcar, but with some more-powerful top-end machinery, this long-established series will add variety to an already eclectic entry, starting from a separate grid and having a discrete result. Through the two-hours duration, the two contingents will inevitably be mixing it and testing the relative performance of their cars. With top-line professional drivers from the GT and Touring Car arena, pit stops, refuelling, and driver changes, the field of around 50 cars will be an exciting and inspirational precursor for the weekend’s main attraction.
Caterham Graduates (written by Darren Houldcroft)
With a maximum capacity grid of 61 cars covering both classes, the scene has been set for another weekend of close, fair and competitive Caterham racing in the P4 Emergency Lighting CGRC Championship.
In the Sigma 150 championship Bren Maude and Harry Cramer currently top the table with 103 points each but that’s partly due to Paul Goldstein (last year’s 135 champion) retiring his car in the last race at Oulton; expect him to feature in the battle at the front along with Stephen Clark and the stalking horse of Miles Clarkson. Meanwhile In the Sigma 135’s Tom McEwing is looking to be the man to beat taking 3 out of 4 wins so far this year; Giles Derry is certainly up to the challenge having taken one himself in Oulton and the trio of Warnock, Armitage and Gunter are also hot on their heels.
There is also a strong showing in the CGRC Trophy (the 3 driver-selected round option for drivers looking for a more flexible/budget-friendly season) – no less than 21 drivers have nominated Silverstone as one of their scoring entries, among them Jamie Elwood (last year’s Sigma 150 champion) and Steve Merritt (who is heading up the Sigma 135’s); neither of them will have it their own way with the likes of Winrow, Willoughby, Hayes and Groom all more than capable of taking an overall or class win.
With everything to play for the 2025 season finale looks to deliver the best in fair, close and competitive Caterham racing with more smiles per mile than ever before.
SW Motorsports ClubSport Trophy
With this weekend very much taking on a heavy endurance racing theme, it’s no surprise to see of the BRSCC’s most popular series also taking to the track this weekend at Silverstone – the SW Motorsports ClubSport Trophy.
Since 2019, this incredibly successful series created by the BRSCC has been a dedicated place for a wide and eclectic variety and mixture of production based clubman races to duke it out together on track across 45 minutes of multi-class pit-stop “mini-endurance” racing. The ClubSport Trophy is no stranger to Silverstone and indeed the full Grand Prix layout, having raced on it several times before and this year’s visit will once again produce another superb packed entry ready to go.
Overall favourites are surely going to come from the top category of Class A, with Phiroze Bilimoria’s VW Scirocco, Adam Marshall’s VW Golf, David Shead and Malcolm Edeson’s BMW Compact and the Golfs of Mike Parsons and Brands Hatch overall winner Julian Daniel last time out. Don’t count out the formidable Morgan of Shane Kelly that only just missed out at the season opener, or any of the BRSCC Audi TT Cup-spec machines to cause a surprise and run in contention for victory either.
Up and down the entry list, you’ll find plenty of machines that are familiar to many a club racing fan – Honda Civics, MINI Coopers, Audi TTs, Renault Clios, BMW Z4s, Peugeots, Ford Fiestas and a handful of slightly more unconventional entries that only add to the variety. This race is always plenty of fun to watch, especially with the added element of strategy courtesy of the mandatory pit stop, meaning almost any of the front-running cars within the first couple of classes had a realistic chance of victory overall as well as in class.
