Overview
- Barwell Motorsport’s #63 crew of Rob Collard and Hugo Cook won Race 1 and Optimum Motorsport’s #77 pairing Morgan Tillbrook and Ben Barnicoat won Race 2 at Oulton Park on Monday, giving each team one sprint victory for the weekend.
- Century Motorsport’s #24 BMW (Branden Templeton/Jack Collins) took the GT4 class win in Race 1 while Grange Racing by FSR’s Daniel Lavery and Darren Turner delivered the team’s maiden GT4 victory in Race 2.
- Race dynamics were heavily influenced by on‑track incidents and race control problems, including a GT4 crash at Druids that brought a full‑course yellow, a heavy GT4 impact at Shell Oils Corner that removed Optimum’s #59, and a circuit power outage that delayed Race 2 start.
- Success‑balancing rules and pit‑stop penalties decisively changed finishing order, with Beechdean’s seven‑second compensation enabling Optimum to take the lead in the pit cycle and several drive‑through and time penalties altering final classifications.
- The weekend left Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn leading the tightly grouped championship on 54 points, tightened the title fight ahead of the next round at Spa on 20–21 June, and underscored that procedural rules and traffic at narrow Oulton Park now shape strategy as much as raw pace.