26/05/26

ROUND 3: OULTON PARK RACE 2

Revie Lake's second British GT meeting continued with another hard-fought hour around Oulton Park as the 16-year-old completed his first sprint-race double-header in GT4.

Revie Lake shows resilience as Oulton Park double-header delivers another hard-fought finish

Revie Lake completed both Oulton Park races as the young McLaren driver continued his rapid education in British GT.

After finishing 4th in the opening race, Lake and Blake Angliss returned to the circuit for Race 2 knowing that there would be little opportunity to recover from mistakes.

The second race once again proved difficult.

No hiding in a sprint

The Oulton Park weekend was deliberately designed to produce short, intense racing.

Unlike Silverstone's three-hour season opener, the two Oulton races lasted just 60 minutes.

That placed even greater emphasis on qualifying, opening-lap positioning and outright race pace.

For Lake, the weekend was another opportunity to understand how different GT racing is from the junior category he had contested in 2025.

The #84 McLaren completed 33 laps in Race 2 and was classified 5th in GT4, three laps behind the eventual winner.

It was not the result Lake wanted.

But completing both races was valuable in itself.

A difficult weekend, but important mileage

Oulton Park was not a weekend that delivered championship headlines for Lake.

Instead, it provided something arguably more important at this stage of his career: experience.

The teenager was learning to manage a significantly more powerful GT4 car around a circuit where there is little margin for error.

He was also learning how to work with a professional team and teammate over a compressed race weekend.

The GT4 victory went to Grange Racing with FSR's Daniel Lavery and Darren Turner, while Morgan Tillbrook and Ben Barnicoat won the overall race for Optimum Motorsport.

For Lake, the result was another 17th-place finish.

Looking beyond the result

The raw standings did not tell the entire story of Lake's development.

His first British GT season was never going to be about immediately fighting for the championship.

At 16, and after only one previous season of real-world car racing, the objective was to learn.

Oulton gave him two more races, dozens of laps and another opportunity to understand the demands of GT4 competition.

The next stop, however, would be very different.

Lake was about to leave Britain for one of the most famous circuits in the world.