Breakell Racing scored a brilliant pair of class podium finishes in the latest round of the 2025 Porsche Sprint Challenge GB season at Oulton Park this past weekend (21/22 June).
On the same weekend as they were contesting the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the team were running a pair of Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS’ at Oulton Park with their regular driver line-up of Reece Somerfield and Karim Sekkat.
Somerfield headed into the event having recorded four RS Am class podium finishes from the opening six races of the season. He started the Oulton weekend strongly, qualifying his Cayman fifth fastest in the hotly-contested class.
The former Ginetta ace produced a great drive in race one, excelling as mid-race rainfall led to the tough combination of slick tyres on a wet circuit. Having already moved up to fourth on the opening lap, he went on to charge forward two more positions to pick up a podium result in second.
After securing a solid fifth place class finish in race two, Somerfield produced a superb opening lap in the final race to storm forward four places overall into the top ten. That moved him into the top three in class and he stayed there to the finish for his sixth podium of the season so far.
Sekkat meanwhile was full of confidence after scoring his maiden RS Am podium finish in the previous round at Brands Hatch. The Ginetta graduate qualified eighth fastest in class and duly went on to convert that into the same result in the challenging opening race.
Unfortunately race two would end prematurely for the Moroccan racer, but he hit back with his best performance of the weekend in the finale. A battling drive saw him fight his way up three places to fifth in class, before he was unfortunate to slip back to a seventh place finish late on.
James Breakell: “It was a busy weekend for the team as we split our resources across the Nürburgring and Oulton Park. A huge thank you to those that represented us at Oulton, they did a brilliant job and their efforts were rightfully rewarded with a brilliant pair of podium finishes.
“Reece is one of the most entertaining drivers on the grid and he produced two superb drives up the order to add more silverware to his collection. It was a tougher weekend for Karim unfortunately, but he ended it with a great drive in the final race and that should give him confidence for the next round.”
The 2025 Porsche Sprint Challenge GB season now heads into its summer break, returning in eight weeks’ time (16-17 August) with a trip north of the border to the Knockhill circuit in Scotland for three more races.
