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Will Burns | |
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Nationality | British |
Born | Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset | 24 June 1990
British GT Championship career | |
Debut season | 2018 |
Current team | Century Motorsport |
Car number | 90 |
Starts | 26 |
Wins | 4 |
Poles | 2 |
Fastest laps | 1 |
Previous series | |
2017 2013–16 2011–13 | British Touring Car Championship Ginetta GT4 Supercup Ginetta Challenge |
Will Burns (born 24 June 1990 in Weston-Super-Mare) is a British racing driver, currently competing in the British GT series with Century Motorsports.
Burns began his car racing career in 2011 running in the Ginetta Challenge. He spent three seasons in the series finishing the 2013 season as the runner-up. Near the end of the 2013 season, he joined the BTCC supporting Ginetta GT Supercup running in the secondary G50 class for seven races with Academy Motorsport.
Burns moved up to the primary class in the Ginetta GT Supercup for 2014 remaining with Academy Motorsport, he completed his first full season 7th in points. The following season he moved to HHC Motorsport and finished 5th. In 2016 he moved to Douglas Motorsport where he finally took his first wins in the series and narrowly lost the championship to Tom Wrigley.
For the 2017 season, Burns was signed by Tony Gilham Racing to compete in the British Touring Car Championship. [1] His teammates were Jake Hill and Michael Epps.
For 2018, Burns signed for the Yorkshire based racing team HHC Motorsport, alongside Mike Newbould. They would be competing in a Ginetta G55 GT4.
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races; * signifies that driver led race for at least one lap – 1 point given all races)
Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | DC | Pts |
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2017 | Autoaid/RCIB Insurance Racing | Volkswagen CC | BRH 1 26 | BRH 2 22 | BRH 3 28 | DON 1 22 | DON 2 27 | DON 3 Ret | THR 1 26 | THR 2 19 | THR 3 23 | OUL 1 25 | OUL 2 29 | OUL 3 22 | CRO 1 17 | CRO 2 Ret | CRO 3 Ret | SNE 1 16 | SNE 2 16 | SNE 3 18 | KNO 1 29 | KNO 2 20 | KNO 3 Ret | ROC 1 23 | ROC 2 21 | ROC 3 Ret | SIL 1 Ret | SIL 2 DNS | SIL 3 DNS | BRH 1 | BRH 2 | BRH 3 | 35th | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DC | Points |
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2018 | HHC Motorsport | Ginetta G55 GT4 | GT4 | OUL 1 34 | OUL 2 14 | ROC 1 26 | SNE 1 29 | SNE 2 29 | SIL 1 21 | SPA 1 21 | BRH 1 DSQ | DON 1 | 16th | 28.5 |
2021 | Century Motorsport | BMW M4 GT4 | GT4 | BRH 1 13 | SIL 1 17 | DON 1 8 | SPA 1 8 | SNE 1 11 | SNE 2 14 | OUL 1 12 | OUL 2 9 | DON 1 15 | 1st | 209 |
2022 | Century Motorsport | BMW M4 GT4 | GT4 | OUL 1 21 | OUL 2 16 | SIL 1 19 | DON 1 19 | SNE 1 25 | SNE 2 16 | SPA 1 22 | BRH 1 19 | DON 1 20 | 6th | 107 |
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