Marcus Clutton was the fastest driver at the end of a mildly brisk media test day at Silverstone.
He set a lap time of 1:56.961 in the second of two sessions at the wheel of Orange Racing by JMH’s #67 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo.
The morning session spanned three hours whilst the afternoon session took place over a full six hours as the sights and sounds sparked excitement and anticipation for the upcoming 2025 British GT season.
Intermittent red flags took place throughout the sessions although they were brief in duration.
The first of which in the morning session was due to a fox on the circuit.
Clutton along with his team-mate Simon Orange completed a collective lap count of 97 across both sessions (13 in the morning and 84 in the afternoon).
Optimum Motorsport’s #77 McLaren finished second fastest on the day thanks to Morgan Tillbrook and his 1:58.011 lap time which was over a second behind’s Clutton’s benchmark.
McLaren factory driver Marvin Kirchhöfer worked with Tillbrook to hone onto the performance of the most favoured GT3 car on the 2025 British GT grid.
They completed 38 laps in the morning and 78 in the afternoon, totalling 116 laps.
Barwell Motorsport finished in third position despite having been set back by a gearbox issue in the morning.
Amidst the 114 laps in total, Lamborghini Squadra Corse factory driver Sandy Mitchell set a quickest time of 1:58.097 in the #78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2.
Harry King put Team Parker Racing’s #66 Porsche 911 GT3.R in fourth place with a 1:58.116 set in the afternoon.
He solely fronted the day’s testing for the team acclimatising with the 992 ahead of its full- season campaign, with 100 laps in total driven.
Paddock Motorsport rounded out the top-five in the GT3 (Pro-Am) category with their #9 McLaren after Martin Plowman, having also spent the day as the team’s sole driver, and set a 1:58.220 in the afternoon.
The sportscar racing star and Paddock Motorsport’s co-founder completed 64 laps in total, 17 from the morning and 47 from the afternoon.
Century Motorsport BMW quickest in GT4 with Mahiki Racing Lotus behind
In the GT4 field meanwhile, Century Motorsport were quickest after a 2:08.468 was set by Charlie Robertson and the team’s #71 BMW M4 GT4 Evo.
Robertson and team-mate Ravi Ramyead completed 84 laps in total, evenly spread over the morning and afternoon.
Mahiki Racing’s new #84 Silver-Am Lotus Emira GT4 finished second in-class thanks to a 2:08.953 by Aiden Neate who – along with co-driver Josh Miller – completed 70 laps in total for the day.
Behind them was the #69 Pro-Am Lotus which ran 75 laps in the day, the fastest of which was set by Jack Mitchell, a 2:09.168.
Pics JEP, Paul Foster & Graham Goodwin
