by The rising riving engine racing star Charlie Hart continued to show his talent with his best performance of the season of the GT4 European Series 2025 and took almost a breathtaking pole position, but also achieved two fifth placements at the crowdstrike 24 hours of the SPA week.
The 16-year-old came to Belgium with his Rafa race to Race Lab Team Frisch from the back of a fight in Zandvoort, where he and passengers Callum Davies were charged by the pack in her McLaren Artura GT4.
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The third of the six events of the GT4 European Series was the largest for the teenager so far, since the series supported the notorious race 24 hours in the historical Formula -1 racing route in the Ardennes.
Hart was part of a massive car that fought fame and held over two 60-minute races in front of massive crowds of 128,000 fans.
A highlight of the event was the prestigious “spa parade”, in which almost 200 GT3 and GT4 cars climbed into the local city in the run-up to the race weekend.
It was a hit with the fans who gathered to take photos with the drivers and to draw their own limited signing posters of the couple.
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The Lancashire rookie then showed its speed on the right track during the entire campaign of the week.
During the training, hard the fastest became the fastest to put his marker in the sand and qualify it with a short third.
The conditions for the worst in qualifying when the rain for Hart’s 20-minute session arrived. However, he tied the spray and the treacherous weather stylish and, which was just under 0.086 seconds, removed from his first pole position in the series. The car would also start third place for the second race.
In the opening race of the week, Hart was given the task of starting the Rafa McLaren.
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On the outer line he was placed on the fourth, but still right in the fight for the tour during his stay. However, two security machines were frustrating for hard, who wanted to return to his rivals sooner than later. He handed over Davies in fourth place, while the car came home for a fifth place in the season.
In the hope that Hart will get better the next day, he was given the second stint on this occasion. After a strong start, they almost rose on the street, but the race was soon neutralized after a serious crash for several cars behind them in the pack.
The clean -up process meant that only 30 minutes of racing could be reached to reach the schedule, and hard jumped in the car while the number 812 was third.
He immediately went into battle with Ricardo van BMW’s BMW and almost managed to pass the Dutch in Les Combes from outside, but was forced to go to the drainage area and to bring it behind it. He continued the chase that was delayed in the battle when Pit stops came through.
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The silver rated driver landed just behind the podium and reached a similarly impressive fifth to achieve the result of Race One. He added important points again to bring the crew to ninth place in the competitive silver class rating with three meetings.
Hart said: “It was a really good weekend for us in the spa. We were definitely one of the fastest out there and we were there from the start.
“I managed to surpass a session in practice, and then thought we had a good chance of qualifying, even under the conditions we had to deal with.
“I would have liked to have been in this pole position! But it was still a great result, and I am sure that we have more chances to get this in the future.
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“We were careful at the beginning, because it will always be a bit messy if so many cars drove in La Quelle and then in Eau Rouge, but I really had run more green flag in the car to try to make a difference in this first stint.
“We both did a solid job and we cannot complain too much with two good surfaces. We are now entering the podium and victories.”
