Rehm edges Fairclough in GB3’s pre-season Snetterton test

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Rodin Motorsport’s Maxim Rehm was fastest by just 0.028 seconds in GB3’s first two-day pre-season test of 2026 at Snetteron.

Rehm set a GB3 track record of 1m37.958s in the eighth and final session to eclipse Hitech GP’s Deagen Fairclough, who had set the pace for most of the two days by topping five sessions in total.

Fairclough began by leading Tuesday’s opening session, his 1m39.131s effort putting him 1.6s clear of Xcel Motorsport’s Rowan Campbell-Pilling, whose team-mate Cole Hewetson headed Fortec Motorsports’ Jack Taylor by 0.295s in session but was slower than the existing benchmark pace.

Having lapped 0.04s slower than his earlier best, Fairclough topped session three by over 0.5s from Rehm and fellow Rodin driver Martin Molnar. Fairclough set a new personal best of 1m38.428s in session four to remain on top by 0.2s as Tuesday’s running drew to a close. Rehm was again best of the rest, while behind him less than 0.1s separated Hewetson, Elite Motorsport’s Edu Robinson and Rodin’s Abbi Pulling.

Fairclough continued where he left off the day before by being quickest again in session five on Wednesday, his 1m40.167s enough to head the chasing pack by 0.4s, with Hewetson second and Rehm third.

Pulling improved to 1m38.527s in session six, which she was fastest in. That laptime got her within 0.1s of Fairclough’s benchmark. Hewetson was 0.2s behind Pulling, while Campbell-Pilling edged Molnar to third by 0.019s.

Fairclough regained the ascendancy in session seven, but was 0.3s off his session four best, with Rehm close behind him and Pulling completing the top three. The pace was finally lowered seven minutes into session eight, as Fairclough set a 1m38.089s. Rehm eclipsed that time by 0.018s later on, but Fairclough responded almost immediately to go almost 0.2s faster. But he was beaten once more by Rehm, who posted the quickest lap of the test with 11 minutes remaining.

All of the top six set their fastest laps in session eight, with Hillspeed’s Dante Vinci third ahead of Pulling, Hitech’s Noah Lisle and Elite’s Kyuho Lee.  Hewetson slipped to seventh in the overall classification, with Campbell-Pilling eighth ahead of Molnar and Robinson, all four not able to improve on their best times from session six.

Test results