Jonny Moore at Brands Hatch: Fastest of the Day on Friday, Mechanical Setbacks on Sunday

So here's the thing about stepping up to Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB. The cars are quick, the field is brutal, and the margins are measured in tenths and inches. You can have all the pace in the world, you can put your car at the top of the timesheets in Friday testing, and you can still walk away from race day with a result that doesn't reflect a tenth of what you did right.

That's roughly where Jonny Moore is sat after rounds 3 and 4 at Brands Hatch in the JTR Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.

Friday: fastest of the day

Before any of the weekend's actual racing started, Jonny set the marker. P2 in the first Friday testing session. P1 in the second. Fastest of the day overall across the entire Carrera Cup field. Not a Pro-Am headline, not a class leader headline, fastest of the day full stop.

That's the underlying pace. That's what the JTR Porsche is capable of with Jonny in it. Everything that followed has to be read against that benchmark, because it's the benchmark this car and this driver are setting when conditions are clean.

Qualifying: Q1 brilliant, Q2 broken

Q1 on Saturday backed up the Friday pace. Sixth fastest overall in a Carrera Cup field stuffed with experienced racers, single seater graduates and Porsche factory team operations, and second in the Pro-Am class. The gap to pole? 0.261 seconds. The gap to fifth-placed Isaac Phelps? Five thousandths of a second. Five thousandths.

In a championship like the Carwow Carrera Cup, where the field is regularly covered by under a second across all categories, that's a statement. Not a fluke lap, not a lucky tow, just a driver who's properly figured out the package in his second weekend at this level.

Q2 was where the weekend went sideways. Early in the session the JTR Porsche lost its front splitter, and from that point on Jonny was running without front aero. In a car that lives and dies by front-end grip into corners, that's not a setup issue you can drive around. It's a fundamental loss of the platform. P11 overall and P5 in Pro-Am was the result, but the lap times across that session aren't representative of anything other than what a Carrera Cup car can manage without proper front downforce.

So Race 1 grid: P6 overall, off the back of the genuine Q1 pace. Race 2 grid: P11 overall, off the back of a mechanically compromised Q2.

Race 1: the contact

Race 1 ended on the first lap.

Jonny made a reasonable start from P6, settled into the train of cars running fifth and sixth, and then got bumped off in the kind of mid-pack first-lap shuffle that's almost impossible to avoid when you're surrounded by drivers who all see the same gap. There's no real lesson in it other than the one every racer already knows. The further forward you start, the less of that stuff you have to deal with. One lap completed, JTR dragging the Porsche back to the pits, weekend's first race over before it had really begun.

It's the kind of result that's frustrating because the pace was there to be fighting for the Pro-Am win, not making contact in the pack on Lap 1.

Race 2: the regrouping

Race 2 was the rebuild. P11 on the grid, different fuel load, different mindset, and a Carrera Cup race that ran cleanly enough for the field to settle.

Jonny brought the JTR Porsche home ninth on the road and fourth in Pro-Am, gaining two positions overall and getting the weekend's first points on the board. The lap times tell the proper story. Inside the top ten on pace, a 46.520 best lap, running consistently in the second cluster of cars that included drivers who've been in this paddock for far longer. Points and lessons rather than a podium, but a clean recovery from the Race 1 disappointment and the sort of race that gives a team and a driver something to build on.

The qualifying format

Here's a side note. The Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB format at standalone weekends has Q1 setting the grid for Race 1, Q2 setting the grid for Race 2. No reverse grid race. So you turn up, you go fast in Q1, you commit to Q1, and then a couple of hours later you have to find another quick lap in different track conditions, different traffic, different fuel and different tyre wear, to set up your second race.

It works for some drivers. It punishes others. I'm not entirely convinced the format does what it's meant to do, but that's a conversation for another day and a discussion for another piece. In Jonny's case the format question is academic this weekend, because the Q2 result was determined by losing the splitter rather than by anything the format threw at him.

The mental game

Here's what I'd say about Jonny right now. The pace is in the car. The pace is in Jonny. Anyone looking at the Friday testing sheets, where he was P2 in session one and P1 outright in session two, fastest of the day across the whole field, can see that. Anyone looking at Q1, sixth overall and 0.005 off fifth, can see that.

What he needs to do is back himself.

He's racing alongside drivers who've spent ten years in Carrera Cup and Carrera Cup-adjacent paddocks. They know the tracks, they know the cars, they know the elbow-out moments and when to commit and when to defend. That's experience and it's earned. Jonny doesn't have ten years yet. He has the pace right now to be in the conversation, but the mental confidence to know he belongs at the front of the grid in race conditions, not just qualifying conditions, is the bit that takes a bit of time.

Porsche Carwow Sprint Challenge GB champion in 2025 in the Clubsport Pro category. JTR running the car, Nick Tandy's team. The package is there. The talent is there. The platform is there.

What's needed now is the belief that all of those things add up to a result and that the result is his to take.

The partners on the car

A Carrera Cup season at this level is built on the brands that back the operation. Jonny's commercial partners visible at Brands Hatch:

•  JTR — the Bedford-based team owned by Porsche factory driver Nick Tandy, running Jonny's Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
• Octane Finance — long-standing personal partner who's backed Jonny through his Sprint Challenge GB title campaign and now into Carrera Cup
• RoadTaxMe — road tax solutions partner on Jonny's programme
• Brandfixx — the modular vehicle branding specialists behind a lot of the sharpest looking liveries across UK motorsport, including Jonny's JTR Porsche

Every weekend Jonny puts the JTR Porsche at the top of the Friday timing sheets, on the front of the grid in qualifying, or fights through the field in a race, the partners on the car get content, exposure and commercial value. The Race 1 contact and the Q2 splitter loss don't change that. Friday and Q1 are the kind of performances a sponsor takes to their team and points at.

If you'd like to talk about putting your brand on a car in Porsche Carrera Cup GB or anywhere else in the TOCA package, we can help.

Snetterton next

The next round of the championship is at Snetterton on 23-24 May, a flowing, open track that should suit the JTR Porsche and gives Jonny a chance to translate Friday-testing-and-Q1 pace into actual race position. The lessons from Brands have to get filed away properly, the splitter issue needs to stay in Brands Hatch, the qualifying focus needs to convert into a race start that gives him clean air, and then we see what the package can really do.

SuperHub trackside

SuperHub were trackside through the weekend producing content for Jonny's channels and JTR alongside the BTCC client work. Race-by-race stills, post-session driver reactions, sponsor activation posts pushed live across the racing days. Whether the weekend hands you a win or a difficult lesson, the content side keeps the partners visible and the story being told properly to the audience that matters.

For Jonny, the story this weekend was Friday pace at the top of the timesheets, a brilliant Q1, a Q2 the splitter took away from him, a Race 1 contact, and a Race 2 recovery into the points. That's a weekend that looks like a learning weekend on the result sheet and a properly competitive weekend on the pace sheets. Snetterton is fourteen days away.

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Race results sourced from the official Porsche Carrera Cup GB timing partner, TSL Timing , and the official Porsche Motorsport Hub.