British GT Finale

The British GT Finale of the 2025 season was held last weekend at Donington Park. Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss were leading the GT3 Championship by a commanding 28.5 points. The 2 Seas Motorsport #42 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo driven by the pair would still need a solid result to seal the title. I went along to the “Donington Decider” to see who would be crowned Champion at the last British GT race of the year.

As a motorsport photographer, the British GT Championship is always a great event to capture. Packed grids of exotic cars that make proper race sounds, who are not shy of racing bumper to bumper, are always a crowd-pleaser. So much so that I had to queue for some time with the rest of the fans to get into Donington on a bright, sunny race day.

British GT Media Day

The British GT season started off for the PistonClick team at Silverstone back in March for the Media Day. This was to be our first time seeing these great automobiles in their 2025 liveries. The Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo stood out for us. Sporting the number 1 plate, it looked fantastic as it roared around Silverstone. 

The other standout livery at Silverstone was the 2 Seas Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo. The growling Mercedes looked amazing as well; the schoolboy race fan in my head had already worked out who would be laying down the fastest laps. The quickest race cars are always the ones with the best liveries, right?   

So following up that question of who is the fastest could anyone take the number one plate from the Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2? After sixteen hours of racing over nine rounds at seven different  venues it all came down to one two hour endurance  race on the Donington Park GP circuit.

British GT Round One

Back in April Round One of the British GT Championship was also held at Donington on the GP circuit. Last time out the title contenders, 2 Seas Motorsport #42 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo took the win. Second was the #78 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2. Third was the 2 Seas Motorsport #18 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo followed in by the number one plate on the Barwell Huracan.

British GT3 

The front runners from the April meeting were at it again for the final race. The Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evos were dominant. Alex Martin and Sandy Mitchell in the #78 car took the win. Second were Rob Collard and Hugo Cook in the number one plate car. 

Both the 2 Seas Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo came in next. The #18 car was third driven by Kevin Tse and Maximilian Gotz. Fourth and taking enough points to be crowned British GT GT3 Champions were Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss. 

It would have been the icing on the cake to see Dawson and Jewiss win at Donington and the Championship title. However, I think the weather conditions had a part to play in their game plan. It was mostly bright and sunny at Donington, a few rain showers did blow in across the track from time to time. This made the track conditions quite tricky for the competitors, especially racing on big slick tyres.  

There is an old saying in motorsport, “To finish first, first you must finish” and this must have been part of the 2 Seas Motorsport game plan. Some battles are not worth fighting for if it means you can win the war. 

British GT4

#90 Marc Warren and Jack Brown secured the GT4 title in a thrilling battle with Ravi Raymond and Charlie Robertson. Raymond and Robertson were leading the title race in the #71 Century Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 Evo coming into the Donington round. 

There was not much between the two GT4 title contenders during the race. The decisive moment was the compensation time added to Raymond and Robertson pit stop for coming second at Brands Hatch. The #90 Optimum Motorsport McLaren Artura GT4 Marc Warren and Jack Brown are the first two time British GT4 Champions.

British GT Photographic Post Script 

The race card for the British GT topped off a great day of spectating and photography for this fan. The support races of the GB3 and 4 single seat cars were great. They look good and had some great close racing through out the day.

The Ginetta GT Championship, Academy and Junior races were also good. The Ginetta GT, mostly the Juniors kept me focused on the track as I didn’t know what was going to happen next. It wasn’t quite carnage but there was a lot of contact is some very tight racing.

British GT Photographic Camera Equipment

As a spectator photographer I had previously been to Donington to watch and photograph the GT Cup racing. The   Cup has similar cars to the British GT Championship so I used that event to get my eye in prior to last weekends meeting. I used a Nikon D500 with a Nikon 200-400mm f4 lens at the Cup event. The D500 is a crop sensor camera giving you a “x 1.5” magnification. This extra reach was not needed and to be honest I struggled at some locations as I couldn’t zoom back far enough to get all of the car in the picture.

So keeping that in mind that the extra reach from a crop sensor camera was not really needed. I selected my full frame Nikon D3X. At a few spots I was a little too far away from the cars So I added a teleconverter to fill the frame. A x 1.4 teleconverter has little to no affect on the image quality of a good quality pro lens. Also it’s easy to add reach to your lenses but impossible to subtract reach. 

You can of course move further back from your subject which is what I did a the Cup meeting. However, the GT Championship is much more popular than the Cup. Move back from the fence line at the GT Championship and the spot you vacated will be filled with fans. So unless you like taking photos of the backs of peoples heads for this event, pick your camera equipment wisely. Full frame, long lens and some teleconverter and you are good to go to capture these great looking cars.

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Thanks to Andrew Harbey and Miss_Liss_Images for the additional photographs used in this report.

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