British GT: Paddock Motorsport confirmed to race in GT3 with unchanged line-up

Paddock Motorsport will race in the GT3 category for the upcoming 2025 season staying with their line-up of Mark Smith and Team Owner Martin Plowman who will continue to use their black and pink McLaren 720S GT3 Evo. This will be the teams third season together but with some changes behind the scenes.

Toby Phillips, who has had success within the GT3 Category with a number of different teams at a world-class level, will now oversee the technical side of the team in an effort to bring the team further forward. Phillips, having previously worked with Bentley and Lamborghini where he has won multiple championships in GT World Challenge Europe and ELMS, looks to start a new chapter and aim to do it with a third different mahttp://places.Mynufacturer.

Increased development will also be seen by the team as Smith will spend more time in the UK after having limited time to do any testing last season travelling back and fourth from the US. This will increase the seat time for him in preparation for the upcoming 2025 season and improve the teams development.

With the announcement of their entry into the GT3 category, Smith said: “I’m really excited for this season, to be back with Paddock Motorsport and Martin, and for a number of reasons. With an average finishing position of 11th in 2023, and 12th in 2024, you couldn’t be blamed for wondering why I’d want to come back for more. But the short answer is I don’t believe those results. Our race pace last year was consistently inside the top five, yet for a litany of reasons – many down to sheer bad luck ­– we struggled to finish in those places."

"My biggest lesson during the last two years is that your race pace alone isn’t enough, and that over time you make your own luck. For example, it might look like bad luck that at the beginning of races last year I consistently ended up with incidents or damage from having to avoid cars wrecking in front of me, but actually that’s just a fact of starting mid-pack. I need to qualify better to eliminate that bad luck. There's only one way I know how to improve and that's with dedication and effort."

"This year I call my ‘go big or go home’ year. We're adding testing, bringing on additional engineering talent, as well as adding the GT Cup to our schedule. This additional seat time, with a focused effort on improving my qualifying performance, I believe will be crucial for improving our results. Paddock has also made significant investment in the team, dramatically improving its facilities and leaving no stone unturned with respect to car performance. I'm confident that 2025 will be a breakout year for us.”