Leading GT racing team Fox Motorsport will embark on a new
adventure in 2023 as it joins the GB4 Championship for its first
single-seater campaign.
Ginetta Junior star Liam McNeilly is the first confirmed driver
for what will be a minimum two-car line-up for the team from
Maldon, Essex.
The new programme represents a first full-season entry in
single-seater racing for the team, which has been a multiple
championship-winner in single-make categories and achieved success
in numerous high-profile GT races since its inception in
2010.
Victories in the British GT Championship, the International GT
Open, 24H Series and Ginetta Junior Championship add to
title-winning campaigns in the Ginetta GT5 Challenge and - just one
week ago - in the Ginetta GT4 Supercup.
Sixteen-year-old Liam, from Brentwood, has been one of the stars
of Ginetta Junior racing over the past two seasons with eight wins
and 24 podiums taking him to the series runner-up spot in both the
2021 main and Winter Series plus third overall this
year.
Prior to that he had been a podium finisher in the
highly-competitive IAME X30 Benelux Karting championship and a
member of the prestigious Zip Kart factory team that previously
featured Lewis Hamilton.
Fox, which is currently bolstering its technical team across both
single-seater and GT-racing platforms, is set to begin testing its
newly-acquired Abarth-engined Tatuus F4-T104s in December.
A combination of UK and European circuits will form the basis of a
thorough winter programme in anticipation of the new season, which
starts next Spring.
Paul McNeilly, Team Principal, said: "We're very
excited to join the GB4 Championship for 2023 for our first proper
assault on a single-seater series. GB4 will serve as an accessible
learning platform for drivers to progress from our Ginetta Junior
team and learn key skills such as racing with slicks and wings,
while doing it without driver aids like traction control or ABS. A
year or two in GB4 should leave a driver more than ready to compete
in GT4 or GT3, where we've raced successfully for many years. We're
going in with high targets. We aim to compete at the front straight
away and win races. We've won at every level we've competed at and
I don't see why we should expect any less in GB4."
Liam McNeilly said: "I'm so excited to join GB4
and move into single-seater racing. It's a new opportunity for me
and for Fox Motorsport and it's going to be good to see how we get
on. We've achieved a lot together in Ginetta Juniors, having
started from basically nowhere, so with the experience we've gained
together in junior racing, we're in a much better place now. I've
driven a GB4 car on a test day and the two things that stood out
straight away against the Ginetta were the amount of grip through
the corners and the feeling of the power. That's something I need
to adapt to, but a good winter testing programme will sort that
out. We've proven ourselves to be a package capable of winning
championships over the past two years so I come in with that as the
aim; to be at the front consistently and see what we can achieve. I
can't wait to get started."
15 October 2022
