The 2020 Britcar Endurance Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2020 Dunlop Endurance Championship) was a motor racing championship for GT cars, touring cars and sportscars held across England. The championship's field consists of varying types of cars from sportscar to GT and touring cars that compete in four classes, depending on horsepower, momentum, etc. It was the 19th season of a Britcar championship, the 9th run as the Britcar Endurance Championship, and the 5th run as the Dunlop Britcar Endurance Championship. It was the first Dunlop Endurance Championship run without Class 5 and below, after the formation of the Britcar Trophy Championship. The season began on 11 July at Croft Circuit and ended on 1 November at Snetterton Circuit. There was also a non-championship round at the Spa-Francorchamps in support of the 2019-20 FIA World Endurance Championship, where Endurance category competitors will participate in two races with the Trophy Category cars.[1]
Danny Harrison and Jem Hepworth won the overall and Class 1 championships, reigning champions Paul Bailey and Andy Schultz, along with Ross Wylie won Class 2, Dave Benett and Marcus Fothergill won the Class 3 championship and Luke Davenport, Mark Davenport and Marcos Vivian won the Class 4 championship.
The opening rounds of the championship at Donington Park were scheduled to be held on 10 April 2020. The season includes a non-championship round at Spa-Francorchamps postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] [3] [4] The Spa-Francorchamps round was moved to 15 August.[5] [6]
Round | Circuit | Length | Date | Supporting |
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1 | Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire (Grid combined with Britcar Trophy) | 50 min | 11–12 July | |
50 min | ||||
2 | 60 min | 1 August | Sports Prototype Cup | |
60 min | ||||
3 | Oulton Park, Cheshire | 60 min | 12 September | |
4 | Silverstone International, Northamptonshire | 60 min | 10 October | |
60 min | ||||
5 | Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit (300), Norfolk | 60 min | 1 November | |
60 min | ||||
Non-championship round | ||||
NC | Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium | 60 min | 14 August | 2019–20 FIA World Endurance Championship Sports Prototype Cup |
60 min | ||||
Cancelled due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic | ||||
60 min | 10 April | |||
60 min | ||||
Silverstone GP, Northamptonshire | 60 min | 4–6 September | 2020–21 FIA World Endurance Championship | |
60 min | ||||
Cars are assigned classed based on speed, horsepower, momentum, equipment fitted to the car and the car's model;
Class 1: GT3, prototype cars
Class 2: GT4, cup (one-make series) cars
Class 3: Cup (one-make series) cars
Class 4: GT4, cup and TCR cars
Team | Car | Drivers | Rounds | |
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Class 1 | ||||
DTB Motorsport | Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 | 007 | Graham Davidson | NC |
Graeme Mundy | ||||
MacG Racing[7] | Taranis | 3 | Jonny MacGregor | All |
Ben Sharich | 1–4 | |||
Venture Engineering[8] | Aston Martin Vulcan AMR Pro | 6 | Gleb Stepanovs | NC |
Steve Tomkins | ||||
VR Motorsport[9] [10] VR Motorsport with Fox Transport | Praga R1T Evo | 84 | Jack Fabby | 1–2, 4–5 |
Garry Townsend | ||||
85 | Danny Harrison | All | ||
Jem Hepworth | 2–5 | |||
99 | Jack Fabby | 3 | ||
Garry Townsend | ||||
Class 2 | ||||
SB Race Engineering | Ferrari 488 Challenge | 1 | Paul Bailey | All |
Ross Wylie | 1, 4–5 | |||
Andy Schultz | 2–3 | |||
Moss Motorsport[11] | BMW 1M E82 | 18 | Mike Moss | 2, 4–5 |
Charles Lamb | 2 | |||
Andy Schultz | 4–5 | |||
RAW Motorsport | Radical RXC GT3 | 21 | Steve Burgess | All |
Ben Dimmack | ||||
VR / Stand 2 Motorsport | Praga R1S | 86 | Martyn Compton | 1–3, 5 |
Warren McKinlay | ||||
Class 3 | ||||
Superformance | Ferrari 458 Challenge | 26 | Colin Sowter | 2 |
SG Racing | Porsche 997 Cup | 32 | Mark Cunningham | 2, 4 |
Peter Cunningham | ||||
Bespoke Cars Racing[12] | Porsche 991 GT3 Cup | 69 | Dave Benett | All |
Marcus Fothergill | ||||
FNS[13] | Ginetta G55 GT4 | 212 | Chris Hart | 1 |
Steve Walton | ||||
Class 3 Invitation | ||||
Team HARD.[14] [15] | Porsche 991 GT3 Cup | 34 | Eric Boulton | 2, 5 |
Nick Scott-Dickeson | 2 | |||
Jamie Martin | 5 | |||
Porscheshop | Porsche 911 RSR | Ian Heward | 4 | |
Darelle Wilson | ||||
Valluga Racing | Porsche 991 GT3 Cup | 911 | Adam Hatfield | 2 |
Benji Hetherington | ||||
Class 4 | ||||
County Classics[16] | Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR | 9 | Peter Erceg | 2–5 |
Motus One Racing | Ginetta G55 GT4 | 11 | Will Powell | 1–2, 4 |
David Scaramanga | ||||
DigiPlat Racing | BMW M3 GTR | 23 | Nathan Wells | 1–2 |
Ollie Hancock | 2 | |||
CRH Racing[17] | BMW M3 E46 | 35 | Tom Bradshaw | 2–4 |
Jonathan Evans | ||||
Reflex Racing[18] | Ligier JS2 R | 58 | Luke Davenport | 2–5 |
Marcus Vivian | 2–4 | |||
Mark Davenport | 5 | |||
EDF Motorsports[19] | CUPRA León TCR | 60 | Martin Byford | 1–2, 4–5 |
Ashley Woodman | ||||
Team BRIT[20] | Aston Martin Vantage GT4 | 68 | Bobby Trundley | 2–5 |
Aaron Morgan | 2–4 | |||
Charles Graham | 5 | |||
Amspeed | BMW M3 E46 | 73 | Jack Layton | 3–4 |
Matthew Sanders | ||||
BMW M3 E36 | 75 | Chris Boardman | 3 | |
Adam Howarth | ||||
BMW M3 E90 | 79 | Dominic Malone | 3 | |
Maximum Motorsport[21] | 78 | Tim Docker | 2–4 | |
Newbarn Racing[22] | Jaguar F-Type S | 88 | Adam Thompson | 2, 4–5 |
Callum Thompson | ||||
Paul Sheard Motorsport | SEAT León TCR | 98 | Jonathan Beeson | 5 |
George Heley | ||||
Morton & Millar | CUPRA León TCR | 126 | William Casswell | 2 |
Marc Kemp | ||||
CJJ Motorsport with Valluga Racing[23] | 718 | Nicole Draught | All | |
Sean Doyle | 1–3, 5 | |||
Lorcan Hanafin | 4 | |||
Class 4 Invitation | ||||
Valluga Racing[24] | Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport | 6 | Lars Dahmann | 5 |
Charlie Hollings | ||||
Albutt Racing | Aston Martin Vantage GT4 | 38 | Dale Albutt | 4 |
Mark Albutt | ||||
Zest Racecar Engineering | SEAT León TCR | 48 | Mark Jones | 4 |
Robert Taylor | ||||
Moss Motorsport | BMW M3 E46 | 57 | Mike Moss | 3 |
In2 Racing | Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport | 99 | Andrey Borodin | 4 |
Ed Pead | ||||
Maximum Motorsport | CUPRA León TCR | 101 | Tom Hibbert | 5 |
Bruce Winfield | ||||
Simpson Motorsport | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 138 | Hugo Cook | 4 |
Sacha Kakad | ||||
Source:[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] | ||||
These entries were previously announced to compete in the 2020 season but couldn't due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.
Team | Car | Drivers | |
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Class 1 | |||
SB Race Engineering[31] | Brabham BT62 Competition | 28 | Paul Bailey |
Ross Wylie | |||
Class 2 | |||
RNR Performance[32] | Ferrari 488 Challenge | 61 | Charlie Hollings |
Wayne Marrs | |||
Class 4 | |||
CTR Alfatune[33] | CUPRA León TCR | 44 | Alex Day |
William Foster | |||
Whitebridge Motorsport[34] | Aston Martin Vantage GT4 | 72 | Chris Murphy |
Steve Birt | |||
101 | Mal Sandford | ||
EDF/Paul Calladine Motorsport[35] | Ginetta G50 GT4 | 92 | Paul Calladine |
Graham Roberts | |||
Round | Circuit | Pole position | Fastest lap | Overall Winner | |||||
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1 | R1 | Croft Circuit[36] | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 21 RAW Motorsport | No. 3 MacG Racing | No. 21 RAW Motorsport | No. 212 FNS | No. 60 EDF Motorsports |
Danny Harrison | Danny Harrison | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | Jonny MacGregor Ben Sharich | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | Chris Hart Steve Walton | Martin Byford Ashley Woodman | |||
R2 | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 1 SB Race Engineering | No. 212 FNS | No. 718 CJJ Motorsport with Valluga Racing | |||
Danny Harrison | Danny Harrison | Danny Harrison | Paul Bailey Ross Wylie | Chris Hart Steve Walton | Sean Doyle Nicole Draught | ||||
2 | R3 | Brands Hatch Indy[37] | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 86 / Stand 2 VR Motorsport | No. 911 Valluga Racing | No. 35 CRH Racing |
Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Martyn Compton Warren McKinlay | Adam Hatfield Benji Hetherington | Tom Bradshaw Jonathan Evans | |||
R4 | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 1 SB Race Engineering | No. 26 Superformance | No. 23 Digiplat Racing | |||
Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Paul Bailey Andy Schultz | Colin Sowter | Ollie Hancock Nathan Wells | ||||
3 | R5 | Oulton Park | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 99 VR Motorsport | No. 99 VR Motorsport | No. 99 VR Motorsport | No. 21 RAW Motorsport | No. 69 Bespoke Cars Racing | No. 35 CRH Racing |
Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | Dave Benett Marcus Fothergill | Tom Bradshaw Jonathan Evans | |||
4 | R6 | Silverstone International | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 21 RAW Motorsport | No. 69 Bespoke Cars Racing | No. 60 EDF Motorsports |
Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | Dave Benett Marcus Fothergill | Martin Byford Ashley Woodman | |||
R7 | No. 85 VR Motorsport | No. 21 RAW Motorsport | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 21 RAW Motorsport | No. 32 SG Racing | No. 58 Reflex Racing | |||
Danny Harrison Jem Hepworth | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | Mark Cunningham Peter Cunningham | Luke Davenport Marcus Vivian | ||||
5 | R8 | Snetterton 300 | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 1 SB Race Engineering | No. 69 Bespoke Cars Racing | No. 718 CJJ Motorsport with Valluga Racing |
Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Paul Bailey Ross Wylie | Dave Benett Marcus Fothergill | Sean Doyle Nicole Draught | |||
R9 | No. 1 SB Race Engineering | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 84 VR Motorsport | No. 1 SB Race Engineering | No. 34 Team HARD. | No. 6 Valluga Racing | |||
Paul Bailey Ross Wylie | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | Paul Bailey Ross Wylie | Eric Boulton Jamie Martin | Lars Dahmann Charlie Hollings | ||||
Non-championship round | |||||||||
R1 | Spa-Francorchamps | No. 007 DTB Motorsport | No. 007 DTB Motorsport | No. 007 DTB Motorsport | No. 007 DTB Motorsport | No entries | No entries | No entries | |
Graham Davidson Graeme Mundy | Graham Davidson Graeme Mundy | Graham Davidson Graeme Mundy | Graham Davidson Graeme Mundy | ||||||
R2 | No. 007 DTB Motorsport | No. 6 Venture Engineering | No. 6 Venture Engineering | ||||||
Graham Davidson Graeme Mundy | Gleb Stepanovs Steve Tomkins | Gleb Stepanovs Steve Tomkins | |||||||
Points are awarded as follows in all classes[38] [39]
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Points are awarded as follows in all classes[39]
Drivers | CRO | BRH | OUL | SIL | SNE | valign=middle | Pts | ||||||
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Class 1 | |||||||||||||
1 | Danny Harrison | 85 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ret | 1 | 18† | 1 | 2 | 213 | |
Jem Hepworth | 1 | 1 | Ret | 1 | 18† | 1 | 2 | ||||||
2 | Jack Fabby Garry Townsend | 84 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 200 | ||
99 | 1 | ||||||||||||
3 | Jonny MacGregor | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | NC | 6 | 21† | 2 | Ret | 170.5 | |
Ben Sharich | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | NC | 6 | 21† | ||||||
Class 2 | |||||||||||||
1 | Paul Bailey | 1 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 208 | |
Ross Wylie | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | |||||||
Andy Schultz | 21 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
2 | Steve Burgess Ben Dimmack | 21 | 1 | 17† | Ret | DNS | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 193.5 | |
3 | Martyn Compton Warren McKinlay | 86 | 4 | 19† | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 169.5 | |||
4 | Mike Moss | 18 | 5 | Ret | 4 | Ret | 52 | ||||||
Charles Lamb | 5 | Ret | |||||||||||
Andy Schultz | 4 | Ret | |||||||||||
Class 3 | |||||||||||||
1 | Dave Benett Marcus Fothergill | 69 | Ret | 8 | 19 | Ret | 8 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 130 | |
2 | Mark Cunningham Peter Cunningham | 32 | 8 | 12 | 22† | 4 | 91.5 | ||||||
3 | Colin Sowter | 26 | 14 | 10 | 57 | ||||||||
4 | Chris Hart Steve Walton | 212 | 7 | 6 | 42 | ||||||||
drivers ineligible for points | |||||||||||||
– | Adam Hatfield Benji Hetherington | 911 | 3 | DSQ | 0 | ||||||||
– | Eric Boulton | 34 | 17 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 0 | ||||||
Nick Scott-Dickeson | 17 | 19 | |||||||||||
Jamie Martin | 15 | 7 | |||||||||||
– | Ian Heward Darelle Wilson | 34 | 21 | 20† | 0 | ||||||||
Class 4 | |||||||||||||
1 | Luke Davenport | 58 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 188 | |||
Marcus Vivian | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 5 | ||||||||
Mark Davenport | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||
2 | Nicole Draught | 718 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 181 | |
Sean Doyle | 5 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 8 | ||||||
Lorcan Hanafin | 16 | 10 | |||||||||||
3 | Martin Byford Ashley Woodman | 60 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 174 | ||
4 | Bobby Trundley | 68 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 148 | |||
Aaron Morgan | 12 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 8 | ||||||||
Charles Graham | 12 | 14 | |||||||||||
5 | Peter Erceg | 9 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 126 | |||
6 | Tom Bradshaw Jonathan Evans | 58 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 123 | |||||
7 | David Scaramanga Will Powell | 11 | 10 | Ret | 18 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 100 | ||||
8 | Tim Docker | 78 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 23† | 12 | 78 | |||||
9 | Nathan Wells | 23 | Ret | Ret | 9 | 4 | 59 | ||||||
Ollie Hancock | 9 | 4 | |||||||||||
10 | Adam Thompson Callum Thompson | 88 | NC | 18 | Ret | 20 | DNS | Ret | 16 | 45 | |||
11 | Jack Layton Matthew Sanders | 73 | 14 | 13 | 19† | 40.5 | |||||||
12 | William Casswell Marc Kemp | 126 | 20 | 15 | 30 | ||||||||
13 | Jonathan Beeson George Heler | 98 | Ret | 12 | 25 | ||||||||
14 | Dominic Malone | 79 | 9 | 20 | |||||||||
15 | Chris Boardman Adam Howarth | 75 | 12 | 17 | |||||||||
drivers ineligible for points | |||||||||||||
– | Lars Dahmann Charlie Hollings | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||
– | Hugo Cook Sacha Kakad | 138 | 15 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||
– | Tom Hibbert Bruce Winfield | 101 | 9 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||
– | Andrey Borodin Ed Pead | 99 | 18 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||
– | Mike Moss | 57 | 15 | 0 | |||||||||
– | Mark Jones Robert Taylor | 48 | 17 | 15 | 0 | ||||||||
– | Dale Albutt Mark Albutt | 38 | 19 | 16 | 0 | ||||||||
Drivers | CRO | BRH | OUL | SIL | SNE | valign=middle | Pts | ||||||