India’s Ruhaan Alva grabbed his maiden podium within the GB4 single-seater championship final weekend with a second-place end within the collection’ second spherical at England’s Silverstone race circuit.
The 16-year-old, who is part of the JK Tyre scholarship programme, crossed the road lower than a second behind winner Harri Reynolds with Tom Mills third.
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Alva, who drives for Fortec Motorsports, took his rostrum outcome within the third race of the weekend. He had began from pole however contact with Sid Smith robbed him of momentum giving Reynolds a sniff at the lead.
Alva defended robustly towards Reynolds, going wheel to wheel with the Elite Motorsport racer, by the high-speed Maggots and Becketts complicated of corners. But the younger Indian in the end needed to concede as Reynolds swept previous at Vale.
Alva didn’t get an opportunity to make the place again as the security automotive was deployed to clear away Sid Smith’s automotive, which had suffered a puncture from the start-line contact with Alva and was left stranded at Copse. Thomas Lee had additionally spun off in his Evans GP automotive at Abbey.
The security automotive solely got here in as soon as the time restrict on the race had run out. With no overtaking allowed, that left Reynolds clear to cruise to the flag with Alva following.
“It’s very nice to be right here. The qualifying didn’t go as deliberate and I needed to accept P11. I received caught up in visitors and the rain and resultant spray resulted in a whole lot of misplaced time. My first podium of the season is a very good enhance to my confidence and we all know that if we hold working onerous, we can obtain outcomes like these persistently, ” stated Alva.
The GB4 Championship is an entry-level, one-make single-seater championship aimed at giving young racers their first taste of slicks-and-wings machinery. Launched in September 2021, the series is currently in its second season and uses Tatuus F4-T014 cars, which are also raced in Italian, ADAC and Spanish F4 series.
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