This year is the 30th season of the Intelligent Money British GT Championship, one of the most popular and competitive series in British motorsport.

First organised in 1993 as the BRDC National Sports GT Challenge, it originally featured a wide variety of different kinds of cars. The series currently features a GT3 class and a GT4 class, which have been running since 2008. 

Last year saw Paddock Motorsport make its debut in the British GT series, running a Bentley Continental GT3, but this year the team is running McLarens in both GT3 and GT4.

The GT3 category is filled by Pro/Am and Silver/Am graded driver lineups; effectively, one professional driver and one amateur or gentleman driver in each team.

Both drivers will spend significant time in the car - there are two qualifying sessions for GT3 and GT4, so that first Am and then Pro can drive, and each car will make a mandatory pitstop in every race to change drivers. 

Race weekends consist either of two hour-long races, or one longer race, which is usually two hours.