Stuart Hall has had quite the journey since emerging onto the scene with Rollcentre Racing, taking fourth overall at Le Mans with the UK-based team in its Pescarolo on his debut and continuing in LMP1 with both Creation and, later Aston Martin Racing.
2013 saw him take the first GTE Am Drivers’ Championship in the FIA WEC alongside Jamie Campbell Walter (there was no GTE AM Drivers’ Championship in 2012), again with Aston Martin.
Since then, there have been GT efforts in a variety of championships and one-off races alongside a full-time role at Roald Goethe’s ROFGO Racing concern, which looks after the care of and race programmes for his superb collection of single-seater, sportscar and GT racers.
Alongside that, he’s been travelling the world as a trusted advisor and coach to Roald’s two racing sons, Oliver and Benji, as their careers progress, with Oliver now in F2 with Red Bull and Benji a newly minted McLaren GT Factory race driver.
Some standout results in historic F1 and sportscars (including an astounding five wins at the Monaco Historic GP) have shown regularly that the fire still burns for Hall too, though. And now, alongside that continuing role, there’s a new programme in place for him and a select band of his closest friends, as MKH Racing embarks on a GT4 campaign in the British GT Championship’s new Endurance Cup, this effort following on from taking the GT4 title in last season’s British Endurance Championship (Britcar):
“MKH, was born out of my being pushed out of a WRT (GT3) drive,” he told DSC ahead of the season.
“It’s a group of us together as friends and colleagues. Peter Montague put the resources behind it to make it happen, and then there are my two best mates, Andy and Mikey Kirk.
“Andy was a mechanic at JOTA Sport when they won Le Mans and the WEC Championship. Mikey has been at Gulf Racing through WEC and a lot more.”
MKH, though, is very firmly an addition to Hall’s current role with ROFGO.
“This was our plan together to do something of our own,” he added. “I am certainly not done with ROFGO, not at all. That’s still my main focus, and I’m a part of that through and through.
“There’s still a big historic race programme happening there, but aside from the racing with ROFGO, my main role with them is out of the car, and I’m really looking forward to building this programme behind the wheel of a modern GT car.
“I’m not too keen to be called an ex-racing driver just yet! I’m definitely not done! I think I’ve proved it when I jumped in cars, the Ferrari last year, the Merc the year before, and certainly in the historic cars I race, I’m fast enough.
“ On the MKH front though we all sat down, Peter has ambitions of racing in British GT. and he’s not, not by any stretch of the imagination, one of the older Ams in the British GT field.”
The spirit within the team was on full display at the British GT Media Day, though Hall was very clear that there’s a way to go before real results can be expected.
“With Peter Montague this year, he is more than just a teammate, he’s a mate, and I’ve got ambitions of standing on the podium with him,” he said. “There’s no easy solution to that. It’s just hard work. He’s very new. He’s new to this level. But the team aren’t new to that level.
“We might be new in name, but I can assure you that people around that are part of the squad are definitely not new to that level of racing.
“ We are all, though, sensible enough to know that you have to build, and the sensible way to do that is to do it in a controlled way. So it was – okay, let’s have a bit of a toe in the water exercise this year, do the endurance rounds with a view to a full championship and an expanded programme with two cars in 2026.
“We’ll have another programme in the paddock with a Ginetta Junior programme this year too.
“I’ve got a big passion for coaching and bringing kids on. And I don’t think I’ve done a bad job when I see the progress that Ollie and Benji have made. So we want a bit of a stepping stone off from the Ginettas to GT4 and British GT.”
With a common sense approach and a development plan MKH Racing will be a team to keep an eye on through 2025 and beyond.
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