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The 2023 British GT Championship season has been marked by increasingly narrow margins between the top contenders, with McLaren’s Lando Norris emerging as a formidable challenger to reigning champion Max Verstappen’s Red Bull dominance. The performance upgrades McLaren has introduced have clearly closed the gap to Red Bull, and the team’s raw pace has been on display at recent events.

In a captivating turn of events at the iconic Circuit de Monaco, the Alpine duo of Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon enjoyed their best qualifying performance of the season, securing 10th and 11th place on the grid respectively. However, the race did not unfold without drama, as the two teammates found themselves embroiled in a controversial incident that left one car in the barriers.

In the opening practice session of the British GT Championship, the track was ravaged by an intense hailstorm, leaving the circuit flooded with standing water. As the conditions improved, Fernando Alonso, leading the pack in FP2, acknowledged the importance of making the best decisions on tyre choices and set-ups, noting that ‘the right decision can gain you five seconds, the wrong decision, you are out of the race’.