MOTORSPORT – BAHRAINI-BRITISH motor racing team, 2 Seas Motorsport, showed impressive pace yesterday during the three test sessions held as part of the 2026 British GT Championship’s official media day, held at Silverstone Circuit in Britain.
2 Seas had both their Mercedes AMG-GT3 Evos on track for the pre-season tests, with the pair of Aaron Walker and Kenzie Beecroft sharing the driving duties in their #15 car and the duo of Kevin Tse and Ben Green behind the wheel of their #18 contender.
Highlighting yesterday’s outing was the fifth-place classification of Walker and Beecroft in test three.
They posted a fastest lap time of one minute 59.793 seconds around the 5.891-kilometre circuit while completing 28 laps of running. They were 0.821 seconds off the pace of leaders Marcus Clutton and Simon Orange from Orange Racing by JMH in their #67 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo.
In the same session, Tse and Green clocked a fastest lap of 2:00.179 for 12th on the timesheet amongst the 25 cars – featuring contenders in both the series’ GT3 and GT4 classes. They were 2.207s from the top and had completed 31 laps.
Earlier in the day yesterday, Walker and Beecroft were in the top 10 for test one, posting a best time of 2:00.294 in 24 laps – 2.060s from Barwell Motorsport’s Hugo Cook and Sandy Mitchell, behind the wheel of their #63 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2.
Tse and Green placed 13th in the session with a quickest lap of 2:01.223, 2.989s from first while also putting in 24 laps of work.
In yesterday’s second test of the day, Walker and Beecroft were 12th with a top mark of 2:00.039 with 26 laps completed. They were 2.037s off the pace of Cook and Mitchell, who again topped the times.
Tse and Green followed not far behind in 15th with their fastest lap of 2:00.478 – 2.476s from the test’s best while running for 26 laps.
2 Seas, co-owned by Bahrain’s Shaikh Isa bin Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, are entering this British GT season as defending champions amongst the series’ GT3 teams.
2 Seas had also won the GT3 drivers’ championship last season with their pairing of Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss, who have now moved on with the team to compete in the GT World Challenge Europe for 2026.
With yesterday’s tests and official media day wrapped up, the British GT Championship is all set to flag off with the Silverstone 500 at the same venue on April 25 and 26. It will be the first of eight rounds on this season’s calendar.
Rounds two and three are then set for May 23 to 25 at Oulton Park, round four on June 20 and 21 at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, rounds five and six on August 15 and 16 at Snetterton Circuit, round seven on September 5 and 6 at Donington Park, and then round eight on September 26 and 27 at Brands Hatch.
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