British GT Championship: Oulton Park

Former Champion and Lamborghini Factory Driver, Scot Sandy, returns to British GT action with Barwell at Oulton Park.

Sandy returns to British GT Championship action this Bank Holiday weekend (May 24-26) when he tackles the two one-hour races at Oulton Park. The Scot is hoping to repeat his success of 12 months ago when he claimed a win and a podium finish in the corresponding races at the Cheshire circuit.

Sandy, the 25-year-old from Forfar and fresh from bagging a top six European Pro Cup finish at Zandvoort, will again be reunited with team-mate Alex Martin in the No 78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2, prepared by Barwell Motorsport.

Sandy: “It’ll be great to be back in the British GT paddock this weekend, and I’m looking forward to helping Alex’s title push,” Mitchell, personally-backed by Tunnocks and who is only racing at four of the seven British race weekends this season, said. We bagged a pole position, a third-place and a win last year at Oulton, and we’re certainly targeting at least that again this weekend. It’s a circuit which certainly suits the Lamborghini and both Alex and I enjoy racing there. It’s a super-fast track and there are a few overtaking opportunities which always makes for exciting racing, so Alex and I, plus everyone in the Barwell team are certainly up for the fight this weekend.”

But Sandy, the 2020 British GT champ, acknowledges the #78 Lamborghini faces stiff competition from a number of cars currently at the top of the ’25 championship.

Sandy: “The Mercedes of championship leaders Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss has taken maximum points in the opening two-hour and three-hour races, so they’ll be competitive again this weekend,” Mitchell continued. “They only pipped us by 1.1secs in the opening race at Donington, so I expect it to be close again. Alex currently lies third in the title race, just six points adrift of the second-placed McLaren of Morgan Tillbrook and Marvin Kirchhofer, so it would be great if we could ease him ahead of them. At the compulsory pitstop in Sunday’s first race, both the Merc and McLaren have to serve additional success time penalties — a result of their podium places last time out at Silverstone — so ideally we’ll be able to capitalise on that. It’s going to be a cracking weekend.”

The traditional Bank Holiday schedule sees qualifying for both races at the challenging 2.69-mile, 17-turn parkland circuit take place on Saturday afternoon, before the two 60-minute sprints get the green flag on Monday, the first at 11.45am, with the second at 4.50pm.