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The key questions facing British GT this year

It was due to get under way this weekend, but the COVID-19 pandemic means several questions will remain unanswered for a while longer

James Newbold Apr 10, 2020, 3:03 PM

Make no mistake, the 2020 British GT Championship season has all the ingredients for a classic. With 19 confirmed GT3 entries - the highest since 2014 - the competition to score points will be more intense than ever. That's significant in a championship that is often decided by fine margins - eight points in 2018 and just 2.5 last year.

With GT3 grids rarely troubling double figures last year, drivers could usually score even if things went awry. But there will be no such luxury this time, and several crews will face the prospect of finishing outside the top 10 if they are adversely impacted by success penalties or caught up in incidents.

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Author James Newbold

James Newbold is Autosport's Plus Editor, responsible for coordinating website feature content.

In a sign of things to come, having completed his Politics and International Relations degree at the University of East Anglia in 2015, he left his graduation ceremony early to catch the last train to Brussels for the following day's Spa 24 Hours.

After a period as a freelancer, he joined the Autosport staff in 2018 and won the Motorsport UK young journalist of the year award. He initially edited Autosport magazine's Performance and Engineering supplements before joining the website team in his current role in 2020.

A keen enthusiast of anything that can be categorised unusual or niche, he enjoys unearthing little-known stories across all branches of motorsport, but has spent most of his career covering sportscars and is a regular part of the Le Mans 24 Hours reporting team.

He lives with his wife and children in Plymouth, England.