Donington Park played host to a huge twenty eight car grid of Fun Cup cars and over seventy drivers on Sunday 1st April. The season opener consisted of a five hour race and a grid packed with racers comprising of Fun Cup regulars, plus, numerous new teams and drivers.

The Fun Cup, which is split into a TDI and petrol class, introduced sequential gear boxes for the petrol drivers in this year’s championship and what a popular move that has been, with over twenty teams either converting from diesel, or upgrading their existing petrol racers to the new format.