Hillspeed racer Enzo Hallman enjoys good start to GB4 Championship season
Hillspeed racer Enzo Hallman enjoyed a strong first event of the new GB4 Championship at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, with a best finish of second place helping the Swedish driver to conclude the race meeting second in the standings.
Taking seventh position in round one, second in round two and then fifth in round three, Hallman made a pleasing start to his maiden season competing with the Markham Vale squad. Team-mate Connor Willis was highly competitive and consistent on his GB4 debut, three top 10 results including two eighth places his reward for a very strong start to his first season racing ‘slicks and wings’. Fellow first year GB4 racer Demitri Nolan didn’t have such good fortune with two retirements, caused by contact through no fault of his own, book-ending a top 20 finish from the 29-car grid in round two. In the GB3 Championship powered by the BRDC, there were mixed fortunes for Hillspeed’s trio of drivers. Dante Vinci claimed a best of 13th place from the last of the event’s races, while Aurelia Nobels’ bid for a hat-trick of top 15 finishes ended with a false start penalty in round three. For the luckless Peter Bouzinelos, a 16th place in race one was the highlight before two engine-related non-finishes. Hallman said: “It was mostly Safety Cars [in Rd2], they a little bit ruined my race. We were on scrubbed tyres and he [race winner Fred Green] had two new tyres, so I knew he would have a bit of a problem getting them in when it’s so cold. I maybe could’ve passed him, but then the Safety Car came out and he got to scrub in his tyres. I’m still happy, it’s P2.”
Richard Ollerenshaw, Hillspeed Team Principal, was delighted with his team’s start. “It was a good weekend for us in GB4, Enzo performed impressively and leaving Silverstone second in the championship, with a podium in the bag, is a great start,” he said. “Connor and Demitri both raced well on their debuts. Obviously Demitri had some terrible luck, being taken out of two of the three races, while Connor’s consistency was impressive to see. We have high hopes for all three as the season progresses. “It was an exceptionally tough weekend for the GB3 squad, fraught with numerous engine issues across all three cars. Unfortunately this situation wasn’t confined to Hillspeed, all teams up and down the paddock endured multiple engine issues. This matter needs to be resolved as quickly as possible, and I’m sure the championship organisers will do precisely that.”