GT3 Season Finale with Dama Fortuna and Barwell

Lamborghini Factory Driver, Scot Sandy Mitchell, targets Jeddah Podium in GT3 Season Finale with Dama Fortuna and Barwell.

Sandy heads to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia this weekend for his final race of the year. Sandy will line-up on the 49-car grid just as the sun sets to contest the six-hour season finale of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. The 24-year-old from Forfar, who has been shortlisted for the coveted Autosport National Driver of the Year and the Motorsport News National Driver of the Year, has already been named No1 British GT Championship Driver for 2024 by MN.

Now Sandy, who narrowly missed out on his second British GT title by just five points, aims to finish his season with nothing less than a Bronze Cup podium at the daunting 3.8-mile, 27-turn Jeddah Corniche Circuit on Saturday (Nov 30). He will again drive his No 78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2, prepared by Barwell Motorsport and backed by Dama Fortuna Tequila. And while his previous team-mate, American-based Englishman Till Bechtolsheimer, will again be in the #78 Lamborghini, there is one change in the three-man driver line-up.

“My French team-mate Antoine Doquin is having to sit this race out because he hurt his back in a recent LMP3 testing accident, so I hope he gets well soon,” Sandy, personally-backed by Huntly-based Black Bull Scotch Whisky and Tunnocks, said. “Ricky Collard will be in the car with us this weekend. He knows the Huracan inside out and we’ve raced together before, so it’s great to have him back in the car.”

Sandy is looking forward to racing on the circuit which hosts the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. “This will be our first time racing on the circuit, but from the experiences I’ve had on the sim it’s going to be brilliant in a GT3 car,” he explained. “It’s a great mix of sweeping, fast curves and straights, interspersed with a few tight corners. There are a few places where you can overtake, so it should suit the Lamborghini well. Strategy in a six-hour race — especially one starting at dusk before heading into darkness and running under floodlights — is crucially important, and the Barwell guys are masters at making the right calls at the right time. We’re all determined to finish the season on a high, and ideally on the top step of the podium.”