Wera alliance academy – hamish forrest – RACE REPORT Round 5 Silverstone GP

hamish forrest silverstone
August 6, 2025

A hat trick of podiums at Silverstone GP on my first
time driving the full circuit.

Sprint Race 1 – P3
Sprint Race 2 – P3
Endurance Race – P3

The pace during testing on Thursday and Friday was good but we couldn’t quite get the car where it needed to be for Saturday and Sunday.

The car felt off from qualifying on Saturday morning when we put the new tires on as the grip just disappeared. We worked super hard as a team on the setup of the car to get it back in the right window and keep it in that window but unfortunately we weren’t able to. But that’s racing. We can’t always have it our way but can’t fault the team at all they were mega and we tried everything we could.

Really privileged to have Bobby Thompson competing with us this weekend and I just lost out on P2 to him in the endurance race! So much to learn from an experienced driver like Bobby though so big respect.

Big shout out to Rich Hoit from The Hard Compound for coming along on Sunday. It was great to have you there and thank you for supporting my motorsport journey.

Huge thanks as always to the amazing team behind me that help me perform on track. You know who you are! Congratulations on winning the team of the weekend too. Very well deserved!

Also huge thanks to my partners and my family who enable me to go racing. I had so many people at Silverstone and at home supporting me and I’m really gratefulโ€ฆ

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