Alex Berg wins GB4’s reversed-grid race at Donington Park

Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography

Graham Brunton Racing’s Alex Berg took a maiden GB4 victory in the final race of the weekend at Donington Park.

With the fastest 12 drivers from qualifying reversed to form the front six rows of the grid, Berg go to line up from pole and made a great launch to lead Arden’s Leon Wilson into Redgate.

They were able to edge clear of Fortec Motorsports’ Thomas Ingram-Hill, while Hillspeed’s Leandro Juncos fought past Douglas Motorsport duo Enzo Hallman and Luke Hilton into fourth in the early stages.

Hilton, meanwhile, ran wide at Fogarty and fell behind Hallman, Pace Performance’s Stefan Bostandjiev and Hillspeed’s Daniel Guinchard.

Berg maintained a small gap to Wilson until the closing stages, as Juncos continued to make progress by dispatching Ingram-Hill from third into the Melbourne hairpin at the halfway stage. Having caught Wilson late on, Juncos tried the same move at the hairpin on the penultimate lap, but the pair collided and both spun down the order.

The incident allowed Berg to break clear to win by one second, with Hallman and Bostandjiev inheriting their first podiums in second and third place. By finishing fourth, Guinchard leaves Donington as championship leader.

Race two winner Ary Bansal prevailed in an early battle with his Elite Motorsport team-mate Alex Kattoulas to finish fifth, with Hilton losing out to the duo and slipping to seventh.

Following their late clash, Wilson and Juncos trailed home in eighth and 14th respectively, while Ingram-Hill continued to lose places during the race and finished ninth ahead of his team-mate Jack Taylor.

There were several incidents further down in the field. Elite’s pre-race points leader Isaac Phelps was involved in a first-lap collision with GBR’s Callum Baxter and was forced to pit for a new front wing. KMR Sport’s Megan Bruce, Arden’s Ava Dobson and Douglas Motorsport’s Dayton Coulthard all made early pitstops as well, while Fortec’s Luca Magnussen walked away from a heavy crash after tangling with ADM’s Jason Pribyl yards before the chequered flag.

Race results (13 laps)