McNeilly wins Donington GB4 reversed-grid race

Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography

Fox Motorsport’s Liam McNeilly resisted a late charge from Cooper Webster to take his second GB4 victory in the final race of the weekend at Donington Park. 

McNeilly climbed from eighth on the grid to finish 0.432 seconds ahead of Evans GP’s Webster who rose from 11th to take his fourth second place of the weekend.

Graham Brunton Racing’s Harry Burgoyne led the first few laps from reversed-grid pole before Kevin Mills Racing driver Jeremy Fairbairn moved ahead and pulled clear.

Burgoyne fended off a train of cars behind, but his resistance was finally broken at Old Hairpin when he lost out to McNeilly, Aditya Kulkarni and Webster.

McNeilly eradicated a 1.5s deficit to Fairbairn before snatching the lead by making a better exit from Old Hairpin.

Having passed Fortec Motorsports’ Kulkarni, Webster soon took second away from Fairbairn at Redgate and then started to close in on McNeilly.

By the last lap the front two were nose to tail, but McNeilly remained ahead until the finish.

Kulkarni finished third ahead of KMR’s Tom Mills, who climbed from 13th on the grid to pass Burgoyne for fourth in the closing stages.

Fairbairn slipped back to sixth ahead of Fox’s Sid Smith, who ran second in the early stages before fading.

Evans GP’s Kai Daryanani was eighth ahead of KMR’s Jack Clifford, while a late spin dropped Elite Motorsport’s Josh Irfan three places to 10th.

Irfan’s team-mate Harri Reynolds was a distant 11th after an opening lap spin. Fortec duo Colin Queen and Ruhaan Alva also hit trouble, Queen losing a lap after stalling at the start and Alva forced to pit early on with a damaged front wing.

Race result (13 laps)