Arden’s Wilson wins disrupted final GB4 race at Snetterton

Photo: Mat Acton Photography

Arden’s Leon Wilson climbed from third on the reversed grid to win a disrupted final GB4 race of the weekend at Snetterton.

Wilson won a shortened contest ahead of Fortec Motorsports’ Jack Taylor and Graham Brunton Racing’s Alex Berg, while title contender Ary Bansal retired in an opening lap incident.

There was a delay to the start after GBR’s Callum Baxter ground to a halt with a technical issue on the formation lap.

Wilson swept around the outside of Berg for second once the race got underway, and then dived down the inside Taylor for the lead at the hairpin.

Having started from 12th, Elite Motorsport’s Bansal retired at Oggies with suspension damage after being collected by Luke Hilton, who was forced to pit for a front wing change at the end of lap one. Hilton’s Douglas Motorsport team-mate Dayton Coulthard also lost ground after driving off the road to avoid the melee.

Following a lengthy safety car period to recover Bansal’s stricken car, the race resumed with four minutes left on the clock.

Wilson remained ahead at the restart and controlled the final three laps to take victory by 0.5 seconds. Taylor resisted a last-lap challenge from Berg, with the pair scoring their second podiums of the season.

Taylor’s team-mate Thomas Ingram Hill moved ahead of Douglas Motorsport’s Enzo Hallman for fourth at the start, and maintained position until the finish for his best result so far.

Hillspeed’s Daniel Guinchard made up three places to sixth on lap one, but was quickly dispatched into the hairpin following the restart by Pace Performance’s Leandro Juncos, who then passed Hallman into Brundle on his way to fifth.

Guinchard tried to pass Hallman on the final tour but then had to defend against Alex Kattoulas. He remained seventh at the flag to extend his championship lead over Bansal to 36 points.

Isaac Phelps maintained third in the standings by coming home 0.5s behind his Elite team-mate Kattoulas in ninth. KMR Sport’s Alex O’Grady lost out to Phelps in the closing stages and finished 10th, while his team-mate Lily Watkins was another to retire.

Race result (7 laps)