COVENTRY’S Blake Angliss endured a frustrating start to the 2026 British GT Championship season at Silverstone.
The Coventry driver kicked off his first full season in British GT with the championship’s most prestigious race, the Silverstone 500.
Angliss teamed up with British GT debutant Revie Lake in the Silver class racing in Mahiki Racing’s McLaren Artura GT4.
However, Angliss’s car suffered a sudden loss of power before qualifying which proved an electrical issue and meant the McLaren would line up from the back of the grid for the race.
Angliss charged forward five places on the opening lap before a short safety car period brought a halt to his progress.
He gained two more places to move up to fourth in the GT4 category before Angliss pitted and handed the car over to Lake.
Lake kept the car in contention of a podium finish before a move from a car behind led to heavy contact with the damage bringing an end to Angliss’s race.
Angliss said: “It’s been an incredibly frustrating weekend. We’ve had a lot of speed and potential, but just haven’t been able to show it due to multiple factors outside of our control, which is really not how you want to start a season.
“Huge credit to the Mahiki Racing team, they pulled out all the stops, with late nights and lots of hard work to get us on track and capable of fighting at the front.
“We just wish we could have delivered them a big race result to reward their efforts, but that was taken out of our hands.
“While we knew we didn’t have the ultimate qualifying pace, we were confident we could get into the top three.
“Therefore, despite starting at the back, I was confident I could make some quick progress and to get up from the back of the grid to fourth inside half an hour was very satisfying.
“That shows the pace is clearly there in myself, Revie and the car, so we’ll focus on taking away the positives from the weekend and coming back as a stronger package for Oulton Park next.”
The second round of the British GT Championship season takes place at Oulton Park over the weekend of May 23 to 25.
