Barwell to Take Sabbatical from European GT3 Racing

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Barwell Motorsport will take a sabbatical from modern-day racing in Europe, amid the gradual rollout of the new Lamborghini Temarario GT3.

The British squad, which has been a mainstay of European GT3 competition, will not be present on the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS grid, as it refocuses its efforts around a three-car Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 program in the British GT Championship.

Barwell, a multi-time class championship-winning team in GTWC Europe, was not selected as one of the few teams to campaign the Temarario GT3 in the series this year, which is understood to have gone to Rutronik Racing and Grasser Racing Team.

“After 15 incredible years of European competition in the GT World Challenge Europe, Blancpain Endurance Series and European Le Mans Series, we will not have a European championship program of modern GT3 racing in 2026 as we take a sabbatical for this season,” said commercial director Chris Needell in a statement.

“This is mainly due to the Huracan now being superseded as the current GT3 model in Europe by the new Lamborghini Temerario.

“We will still be venturing overseas however, as part of our heritage race programs in both the MRL GT3 Legends and SRO/Peter Auto GT3 Revival series, including running three GT3 cars at the prestigious Le Mans Classic event in July.

“Additionally we are also evaluating interest in competing with the Huracan GT3 EVO2s in a Middle Eastern program of races over the winter of 2026-27.”

Neil Oxborrow, Barwell’s team manager for its former GTWC Europe Sprint Cup program, meanwhile, has been promoted to general manager/team manager within the Mark Lemmer-run squad.

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