Euro GT3 Pro Cup: Magny Cours

July 31, 2025

Lamborghini Factory Driver, Scot, Sandy Mitchell, heads to Magny-Cours targeting top-five in Euro GT3 Pro Cup with Barwell and Dama Fortuna Tequila.

Lamborghini factory driver Sandy returns to GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Pro Cup action this weekend (Aug 1-3) when he heads to Magny-Cours in France for two 60-minute races. For Sandy, the 25-year-old from Forfar who will again partner team-mate Hugo Cook in the No78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2, prepared by Barwell Motorsport and backed by Dama Fortuna Premium Tequila, it’s a return to the track where he won 12 months ago.
“Driving with my Barwell team-mate Rob Collard, we won our race in the GTWCE Bronze Cup last year,” explained the Scot, who claimed the British GT Championship with the Englishman in 2020. “But Hugo and I face an even tougher test this weekend in the ultra-competitive Pro Cup against Europe’s leading professional drivers.”

Sandy, who twice comfortably led the Pro field in the Spa 24-Hours in June, is looking forward to returning to the demanding Magny-Cours circuit which previously hosted the F1 French Grand Prix between 1991 and 2008. “It’s a classic layout with a good mixture of slow hairpins and high-speed chicanes, plus a long fast straight into the first-gear Adelaide hairpin,” Sandy, personally-backed by Tunnocks, explained. “It’s essentially a very flat circuit, and overtaking is notoriously difficult, so nailing our qualifying sessions is going to be crucial.”

The 40-car field, a record for the French circuit, will line up for this weekend’s action. Following Friday’s Free Practice and Pre-Qualifying sessions, Saturday opens with qualifying at 2.45pm (local), with the first race starting at 8.30pm. Qualifying for Sunday’s race starts at 10.30am with the second 60-minute race at 3.15pm. (All times are one-hour ahead of UK.) “It’s great to have another evening race,” Sandy stated. “There’s a completely different atmosphere because of the fading daylight and the move towards dusk. I’m really looking forward to both races, and hopefully we can bag our first Sprint Pro Cup top-five finish of the season.”