ENDURO MOTORSPORT: BRITISH GT’S ZERO TO HERO

“I’m not going to rule out the title this year”
Marcus Clutton

You would have been forgiven for dismissing it as fodder. As all bubbled with anticipation when 26 British GT cars circulated on the warm-up lap before last year’s season-opening Brands Hatch race, an orange McLaren 720S GT3 suddenly appeared stranded out on the track’s GPloop.

Amateur driver Morgan Tillbrook had been caught out even before his and his team’s British GT debut, spinning and bouncing off a Westfield barrier. The car he shared with Marcus Clutton went no further.

But it showed the folly of making your mind up hastily. Tillbrook and Clutton’s Enduro Motorsport McLaren quickly became a genuine British GT frontrunner, challenging for podiums. Come the season-ending Donington Park round it was a race winner.Aconvincing one, too.

And this outcome was, for a few reasons, even less likely than the Brands anecdote suggests. Enduro had only been founded by businessman and endurance racing enthusiast Tillbrook the year before.And with much more modest ambitions than reaching British GT’s