Jonny Moore Makes Porsche Carrera Cup Debut at Donington with JTR

Stepping up a category in any form of motorsport is hard. Stepping up to the Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB, which is reliably one of the most competitive one make championships in the world, is harder. Doing it as the reigning Sprint Challenge GB Clubsport Pro category champion from the year before, with JTR, and making your series debut alongside the BTCC at Donington Park is the kind of weekend that tells you a lot about a driver very fast.

Jonny Moore took on that weekend. And he came out of it with the kind of data, experience and exposure that a first round is actually for.

Jonny is 17, from Leeds in West Yorkshire, and arrives in Carrera Cup GB off the back of a dominant 2025 Sprint Challenge GB CS Pro title. Before that he finished second in the Junior Saloon Car Championship and set lap records at Castle Combe and Oulton Park. The speed is not in question.

For 2026 he has signed for JTR, the team owned by Porsche factory driver Nick Tandy and managed by Nick Madge, and lines up in the Pro-Am category alongside BTCC regular Ollie Jackson. JTR is a heavyweight programme in Carrera Cup GB and a very solid place to do your step up year.

The jump from the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB to the Carrera Cup GB is not a small one. The Carrera Cup GB uses the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, ran alongside BTCC on ITV4 and ITVX, and runs a grid stacked with current professional, ex BTCC and emerging talent. A rookie year in the Pro-Am category is not a soft option. It is a proper test of race craft, tyre management and qualifying pace against drivers who have been on the grid for years.

Making his debut at Donington Park on the TOCA support bill, in front of a live television audience, on the opening weekend of a new Porsche season, is about as high pressure a first outing as a young driver could wish for. That is exactly the kind of environment he needs to be learning in.

Round one results in Pro-Am are not the headline. Even for the most experienced drivers in the paddock, the opening round of a new season with new regulations, tyre specs, team setups and a Saturday qualifying format is a data gathering weekend.

What we were watching for with Jonny:

• Clean running. Finishing both races matters more than chasing a result in session one.
• Pace relative to team mate. In a one make series, the car next to you is your benchmark.
• Race craft against more experienced Pro-Am field regulars. This is where the step up is really tested.
• Pressure handling. Carrera Cup GB runs on ITV4 and ITVX. The camera never blinks.

On all of those, Donington is exactly the weekend you want, even when the timing sheets are not the story you came for.

A young driver starting out in a championship like Carrera Cup GB has to treat their commercial side with the same professionalism as the racing side. A lot of drivers do not. That is what holds careers back.

Our job at Donington was to make sure every moment that could become a sponsor asset did. Trackside video, stills, reels, social stories and sponsor led content ran across Jonny's channels throughout the weekend, with live posting during qualifying and the races. The Carrera Cup GB gets real television time. A driver who can turn that television time into content for his backers is a driver who keeps his programme funded.

This is the other half of being a professional driver. It is the half that most young drivers do not have help with. Jonny does.

Every aspiring racing driver reaches the same crossroads. Talent gets you in the car. The ability to deliver a commercial return is what keeps you in it. Jonny starts 2026 with the right combination of championship, team, series visibility and creative support to build that side properly.

• Brands: Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB is an upmarket, performance focused multi million audience running on ITV4 and ITVX. If that fits your brand, talk to us about Jonny and the package around him.
• Aspiring drivers: if you are competing in a junior series and thinking about your commercial future, the work starts now, not the year you reach the grid you want.
• Teams: if your drivers need commercial and content support alongside their race programme, we run that side for them.

Call +441803262074 or email info@superhub.biz to talk through a sponsorship or creative brief.

SuperHub works with Jonny Moore on his 2026 Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB programme, providing creative services, content, sponsor activation and personal brand development. Next round, Brands Hatch.