The 2025 Britcar Endurance Championship has seen a new lease of life – packed grids and exciting battles in every class.

With Snetterton coming up, Ian Waterhouse spoke to Britcar Endurance Championship Technical Director David Hornsey on BARC TV to find out how the season is unfolding.

We are into the closing stages of the 2025 season – a revitalised season with big changes – how has it gone from your point of view?

“Last year was a tough year for everyone in motorsport, and we saw some small grids, and last year we had our championships split over two days and two separate grids,” he said

“We had the bigger – faster GT cars on the Saturday and the smaller, less powered cars on the Sunday. We looked at what the most popular classes were and we looked at our overheads and track time was the most expensive. We thought if we could trim that down to one championship – what would hopefully help and be better for us.

“We ended up taking away the GT3 cars at the top as it was always a struggle to capture the numbers and we dropped the slowest class off the bottom and so we then had a nice mixture in the middle of all the cars and classes that were really competitive and it has been proved this year it was a great move – keeping it to a one day meeting, and we have seen grids of over 30 regularly at each round – it’s how Britcar used to be.”

The move has been a popular one for competitors and fans trackside and people tuning into the BARC live stream – it is growing in appeal and viewership. Are the team happy with the progress?

“It was the first round at Silverstone when cars set out onto the grid – it was quite emotional seeing that many cars from where we have come from in previous years and seeing the turnaround and positive feeling from everyone in the paddock is fantastic,” continued Hornsey.

“Yes everyone wants to win – but it’s that level of championship where everyone gets on with each other and it’s good fun!”

The next round of the Briticar Endurance Championship is at Snetterton on the 13th September with rounds at Oulton Park and Brands Hatch to follow. For more information – head to https://www.britcar-endurance.com/.