Evans GP’s Cooper Webster ended his GB4 campaign in style, by fighting his way from 11th on the grid to claim his third victory of the weekend at Donington Park.
After a thrilling scrap following a mid-race safety car, Webster prevailed to take his fifth win of the season, ahead of Fortec’s Colin Queen and Aditya Kulkarni.
Graham Brunton Racing's Harry Burgoyne equalled his best result of the year with fourth place ahead of KMR Sport's Lucas Blakeley, while Elite Motorsport's newcomer Theo Micouris ended his first single-seater weekend with sixth place.
Fox Motorsport's Liam McNeilly recovered from an early incident at the Melbourne Hairpin to claim seventh ahead of Elite's second newcomer Finn Harrison, with Sebastian Murray (Graham Brunton Racing) and Fortec debutant Dan Hickey completing the top-10.
The final race of the season began with Fox Motorsport's Sid Smith starting on pole, and the British driver held top spot for the majority of the race, while Webster carved his way through the field. By lap eight, the Australian had risen to second after some thrilling wheel-to-wheel action, but his progress was hampered when the safety car was deployed. Privateer Dylan Hotchin had been running on the fringes of the top-10, but was clouted from behind by VRD's Zack Ping, the American team having worked wonders to get his car onto the grid after his big accident in race two.
That temporarily halted Webster's charge, but when the race resumed on lap nine, he set about grabbing the lead, but only managed it after dicing with Smith for the first half of the lap, bringing Jack Clifford and Queen into the mix. At McLeans, Smith's superb drive was scuppered after a collision with Clifford, delaying both as they skipped across the gravel and dropped outside the top-10.
That allowed Webster to make good his escape, but Queen kept him more than honest, never allowing the gap to grow more than three quarters of a second. Webster though wrote his way into the GB4 history books as only the second driver to win all three races in a weekend, after 2022 champion Nikolas Taylor did the same at Silverstone last year.
GB4 Championship, partnered by the BRDC, Donington Park race three provisional result:
1. Cooper Webster, Evans GP, 12 laps
2. Colin Queen, Fortec Motorsport, +0.756
3. Aditya Kulkarni, Fortec Motorsport, +4.979
4. Harry Burgoyne, Graham Brunton Racing, +5.499
5. Lucas Blakeley, KMR Sport, +5.703
6. Theo Micouris, Elite Motorsport, +5.993
7. Liam McNeilly, Fox Motorsport, +6.193
8. Finn Harrison, Elite Motorsport, +7.408
9. Sebastian Murray, Graham Brunton Racing, +11.419
10. Dan Hickey, Fortec Motorsport, +12.352
11. Sid Smith, Fox Motorsport, +12.546
12. Thomas Lee, Evans GP, +16.842
13. Jack Clifford, KMR Sport, +27.773
DNF. Lexie Belk, Belk Racing
DNF. Zack Ping, VRD
DNF. Dylan Hotchin, Dylan Hotchin Racing