Optimum Motorsport is a British sports car racing team based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire that primarily competes with Ginetta and McLaren GT cars. Optimum also race under the Inception Racing banner with Ferrari. Their record includes championship wins in 2013 British GT4, class wins at 2012 and 2015 Dubai 24H, 2017 24h Series class champions, and most recently several British GT, GT Open, and AsLMS podiums and championships.
Overview
Optimum Motorsport is based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. In 2022, it is taking part in:
FIA World Endurance Championship in collaboration with Project 1 IMSA Sportscar Championship (as Inception) Le Mans Cup making their debut in prototype racing with a Duqueine D-08 Asian Le Mans Series (as both Optimum and Inception, one car apiece) International GT Open (as Inception Racing) British GT Championship in GT3 with McLaren customer cars (and historically, Optimum have additionally run Aston Martin in the GT4 class)
In previous years Optimum have campaigned in Creventic 24H endurance series.
Racing record
British GT results British GT results Year Car Class Drivers Wins Podiums Points 2012 Ginetta G55 GT3 George Murrells David McDonald Luke Hines Mike Simpson John Hartshorne 3 28.5 Ginetta G50 GT4 Lee Mowle Ryan Ratcliffe George Murrells Gary Simms 1 60 2013 Ginetta G50 GT4 Ryan Ratcliffe Rick Parfitt Jr. 3 7 1731st1st 2014 Ginetta G55 GT4 Matt Draper Tania Mann Ryan Ratcliffe Jade Edwards 1 131 9th 8th 2015 Ginetta G55 GT4 Mike Robinson Graham Johnson 2 5 131 2nd 3rd Charlie Hollings Alistair Barclay 2016 Audi R8 LMS GT3 GT3 Ryan Ratcliffe Will Moore 2 2 97 1st 1st PMW Expo Ginetta G55 GT4 Mike Robinson Graham Johnson 36 9th 9th
24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Entrant No. Car Drivers Class Laps 2021 Inception Racing 71 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ben Barnicoat Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy LMGTE Am 327 41st 12th 2022 Team Project 1 56 Porsche 911 RSR-19 Ben Barnicoat Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy LMGTE Am 241 DNF DNF Inception Racing 59 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Marvin Klein Côme Ledogar Alexander West 190 DNF DNF 2024 Inception Racing 70 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Frederik Schandorff LMGT3 275 40th 13th
References
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