Mark Smith & Martin Plowman emerged from what was perhaps one of the most demanding British GT Championship races ever with a solid haul of points, with Smith and Plowman securing an eighth-place finish at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend. With the British GT field combined with cars from the French GT Championship and European Alpine Cup, a 55-car ‘mega grid’ would compete across two hours in the Ardennes, however the addition of so many GT4 and production-spec machines made t

Mark Smith and Martin Plowman beat the odds to bank a healthy points score across the opening race of the British GT season at Silverstone last weekend, with the Paddock Motorsport team overcoming a string of challenges to make the result possible. An overnight turbo change was required to get the #9 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo race-ready for Sunday and, despite an ongoing battle to get the car back into its optimal performance window, Smith and Plowman fought their way from the bac