Team Parker Racing secured its third title in the British GT Championship at the weekend (September 28/29), as Charles Dawson and Seb Morris drove a mature race to win the GT4 Pro-Am crown.

That success becomes the team’s third title won in the series, adding to 2018’s GT4 Pro-Am success and the 2017 GT3 Drivers’ title – also won by Seb in his second year of GT racing.

Free practice one took place under cool but gloriously sunny skies, with Charles and Seb happy to run conservatively with parts of the circuit a little damp, while in pre-qualifying the pair finished fourth. In qualifying, later that afternoon, Charles put in a strong lap to finish quickest, and Seb was third in class, the times combining for GT4 Pro-Am pole position and fifth overall.

After a brief morning warm up on Sunday, the final race of the season began after lunch, with the Safety Car called on the opening lap to retrieve a GT3 car from the gravel, Charles running fourth overall in GT4 and leading Pro-Am, with a nice buffer ahead and behind when the track went green. He fell back one overall place but continued to run a sensible race, knowing the main class title rivals were both in strife.

Charles managed a Full Course Yellow during which he handed over to Seb, the pair emerging fifth in GT4 and still leading Pro-Am, albeit with a reduced gap behind. With one of their overall title rivals managing to gain almost an entire lap on the field, focus switched to bringing home the Pro-Am honours.

As such, Seb used his experience and didn’t fight the cars behind, having a sensible run to the flag to win the 2024 championship. That is a fantastic success, given Charles completed his first track day just three years ago, while Seb now has two British GT titles despite being only 28 years old.

Team Parker Racing now switches focus to this coming weekend (October 5/6), where it is aiming to secure the Pro, Pro-Am, and Entrants’ titles in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB – having already won the Am and Rookie championships. In the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB, it is in the fight for the RS Pro, CS Pro, and RS and CS Entrants’ titles, meaning it could be a spectacular return to Brands Hatch.

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