BMW Junior driver and BRDC SuperStar Dan Harper has spent the year helping develop the marque’s range of new race cars as well as making his mark in GT3 racing. He reflects on a year of progress, personally and professionally Column:
This year we’re mainly focused on the GT World Challenge, after a year and a half of driving on the Nordschleife in the NLS. The first year was cut short with COVID, and this year we did the ones prior to the 24-hour race.
I’ve done quite a bit of development driving this season. At Portimao we raced with the new GT4. We’ve done quite a lot of just private testing. I went to Miramas in France, with the GT4 to test, [fellow BMW junior] Neil Verhagen tested in Germany and then there are other drivers that are testing in Spain – with 12-15 drivers they need to spread the work around.
It was the right option to let us focus fully on the GT World Challenge, my team-mates [Verhagen and Max Hesse] and I all really wanted to get out there and learn some new grand prix tracks and do different series. I’d say it’s the toughest GT series out there, the grid is very, very strong. Huge grids as well – at Spa I think there was 60-something cars, and over half of them were fully factory supported cars looking to win, so it was very, very tough.
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