Manufacturing unit McLaren GT racer Gamble is the most recent addition to the grid for the season-ending occasion after former Prime Gear Stig, Ben Collins, and W Sequence driver Abbie Eaton have been introduced in current weeks.
Whereas the latter will compete in a Lamborghini Huracan within the GT3 class, 21-year-old Gamble will be part of Collins within the GT4 class, the place he’ll companion Kavi Jundu for the two-hour race in Paddock Motorsport’s new-for-2023 McLaren Artura.
After securing the Ginetta Junior title in 2017 and attaining success in British System 3 within the following season, Gamble has extra just lately competed in sportscars, successful the European Le Mans Sequence’ LMP3 title in 2020 and ending runner-up within the LMP2 division a 12 months later.
Gamble replaces Tom Rawlings within the pro-am lineup which has achieved a finest results of seventh this season.
Gamble mentioned: “I’m actually excited to affix Paddock Motorsport for the ultimate British GT spherical.
“I’ve performed quite a lot of growth work with the Artura GT4, however this would be the first time I’ve had the prospect to race it, in order that might be actually good enjoyable.
“The automotive might be fairly totally different from the LMP2s I’ve been racing this 12 months, however the Artura GT4 shares some similarities with the present GT3 automotive.
“I’ve all the time discovered that I adapt fairly effectively between the totally different automobiles I drive, there are some totally different strategies to make use of for every, however each the McLaren GT4 and GT3 are mega automobiles to drive.
“Donington is my native observe and considered one of my favourites. It’s been fairly some time since I’ve had the prospect to race there, so I’m actually trying ahead to heading again there and seeing if we are able to spherical off the season with a robust end result for Paddock and the Artura GT4.”
Kavi Jundu / Tom Rawlings – Paddock Motorsport McLaren Artura GT4
Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Images
This might be Gamble’s second foray into British GT, following a earlier outing at Snetterton in a Century Motorsport-run BMW M6 GT3 in 2019 when he claimed pole place.
“We’re delighted to have Tom be part of us for the ultimate British GT spherical, and we’re all excited to see what he can do aboard our Artura GT4,” mentioned Paddock Motorsport workforce principal Martin Plowman.
“Tom already has a superb pedigree in European racing and is aware of easy methods to get the perfect out of a McLaren GT automotive.
“He ought to type a robust partnership with Kavi too, as Tom is well-versed in Professional-Am racing and Kavi has been enhancing in each velocity and confidence because the season has gone on.
“With Tom and Kavi, we really feel we have now a driver pairing able to going out and making an announcement at Donington.”