Jonny Moore Motorsport News

Snetterton Race Report: Rounds 5 & 6 — Pace There, Results Not Quite

james@foster.coach (James Foster) — Thu, 31 Dec 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Snetterton was always going to be a tough one. The longest, fastest circuit on the calendar in the middle of a heatwave, the third weekend of my Carrera Cup campaign, and a field that's been racing this category for far longer than I have. I came in knowing what I wanted from the weekend. I left it knowing exactly what we need to work on.

This is the honest version.

Friday and Saturday: setting up the weekend

We arrived at Snetterton having had a productive test day on Wednesday with the team, working through setup options for the heat and the fast straights. Friday's free practice was about confirming the work we'd done in testing was right for race conditions. We were where we needed to be on pace.

Q1 on Saturday morning put me twelfth overall and fifth in Pro-Am. In a championship where the top three classes are regularly covered by under a second, you take a top-fifteen qualifying and you turn it into points on Sunday. Q2 in the afternoon was thirteenth overall and fifth in Pro-Am again, with a lap deleted for track limits. Same story, slightly more frustrating. Two qualifying sessions, two front-of-the-Pro-Am-class results, two grid slots to work with for Sunday.

I went into race day quietly confident.

Race 1: points on the board, with a sting

Race 1 was the harder of the two physically. The temperature in the cockpit was punishing from the warm-up lap onwards. Snetterton's long Bentley Straight gives you no relief — you're flat out for the better part of a kilometre and then straight into a left-right complex that loads the front end up.

I held station off the start, settled into the train of cars running mid-pack, and worked on managing the tyres and the temperature for the full 14 laps. Crossed the line twelfth on the road, fifth in Pro-Am.

The post-race news was a five-second time penalty for exceeding track limits. I want to be honest about this: I went off-track on multiple occasions during the race and the stewards were right to penalise it. Four of us picked up the same penalty, one driver picked up a 10-second version. I kept the positions on classification because the gap to the cars behind absorbed the penalty. Lesson noted. The track limits at Snetterton are unforgiving and I need to be sharper about that going forward.

Big credit to JTR on the strategy and the pit work setting the car up between the morning warm-up and the race. Even with the penalty, getting points on the board in Race 1 was important after Brands Hatch.

Race 2: an early ending

Race 2 was a much shorter day than I wanted it to be.

I made an okay start from thirteenth, settled into the running order, and on the second lap had a mechanical issue due to contact that ended my race in the pit lane. JTR will go through the data and work out exactly what happened. No driver error. Following contact. in the previous corner the car just wasn't going to make it through the full distance and the team made the right call to retire it rather than risk further damage, having put a new wheel on it.

Two DNFs in three race weekends is not the start to my Carrera Cup season I planned for and not the return any of my partners deserve. I'm not going to dress it up. I am going to look at it honestly with the team, identify what we control and what we don't, and come back at Oulton ready to convert the qualifying pace we keep showing into the race finishes we're targeting.

The heat

I want to acknowledge the conditions because they were real. In-car temperatures were over 28C at points across the day. The whole field was struggling, not just me. The drinking systems in these cars only do so much, and the concentration required to run a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup at race pace for half an hour in that heat is significant. Some of the experienced drivers in the paddock guys who've been doing Carrera Cup for ten years said it was the most physical race day they'd had in years. That's the bar.

It's not an excuse. Every driver had the same conditions and I'm one of the youngest, fittest drivers on the grid. But it's context for anyone wondering why the times in the second half of races were down on the early laps.

What I'm taking away from Snetterton

Three honest reflections:

One. Qualifying pace is now consistent. Brands Hatch Q1 was a P6 overall. Snetterton Q1 and Q2 were P12 and P13 in a field that's covered by under a second across all classes. That's the foundation. Now it has to translate into race results, and that's on me.

Two. Track limits need to be sharper. Five-second penalty in Race 1 is the kind of self-inflicted wound a driver in his third Carrera Cup weekend has to eliminate. I'll be working on this between now and Oulton.

Three. The JTR team are working brilliantly behind the scenes. The car has been quick out of the box at every weekend so far. The race weekends where it hasn't delivered me a finish haven't been the car's fault they've been a combination of racing incidents and one mechanical. The fundamentals are strong.

Thank you to my partners

A racing weekend doesn't happen without the brands and people who back the operation. I want to acknowledge them properly, especially after a weekend that didn't deliver the results their support deserves.

JTR — Nick Tandy and the JTR team produce some of the fastest race-prepared 911 GT3 Cups in the country. The car has been a weapon at every weekend and the team's work between sessions is consistently excellent. They deserve a podium and I'll keep working to give them one.

Octane Finance — long-standing personal partners who've backed me from Sprint Challenge through the Carrera Cup step-up. Their belief in this campaign is what makes it possible.

The Dealers Broker — automotive trade partners on the car, with me through the season.

RoadTaxMe — motoring services partners I'm proud to carry on the JTR Porsche.

Brandfixx — the team behind the livery on the car. Every car the Brandfixx crew touch comes out looking sharper than the field, and I'm grateful to have one of theirs to drive.

If you're a brand thinking about getting involved with the Carrera Cup GB grid or any of the wider TOCA package categories, my management team at SuperHub can talk you through what's possible. The exposure through ITV4, the TikTok app coverage and the broader BTCC ecosystem makes this one of the strongest motorsport audiences in the UK.

Onwards to Oulton

The next round is at Oulton Park on 6-7 June. A different challenge entirely — flowing, technical, cooler weather forecast, a track where the Porsche should be at home. I'll be testing in the fortnight between Snetterton and Oulton with JTR and working on the things I've identified from this weekend.

The pace is in the car. The pace is in me. The races are coming.

Thanks as always to everyone who's followed along, sent messages, turned up trackside in the heat, and stayed with the campaign through the difficult weekends as well as the good ones. The good ones are coming.

— Jonny

Jonny Moore is competing in the 2026 Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB championship with JTR . R ace results and timing sourced from the official championship timing partner, TSL Timing .

Yorkshire Meets Yorkshire: Rallye Digital Joins the #12 for 2026

james@foster.coach (James Foster) — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:37:37 GMT

Every sponsorship announcement looks much the same from the outside. A logo gets added to a race car, a press release goes out, and on we go. This one is worth a longer look. Rallye Digital coming on board for the 2026 Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB season is a proper Yorkshire story, a serious piece of automotive technology heading into a serious championship, and a partnership that came together through one of the most respected names in British motorsport.

We're delighted to confirm Rallye Digital as a sponsor and driver partner for the season ahead. Their branding will be on the #12 JTR Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, and the relationship goes beyond a sticker on a side panel. Both businesses share the same patch of the country, the same obsession with detail, and the same belief that doing things properly tends to win out over doing things loudly.

1. Who Are Rallye Digital

Rallye Digital is the team behind a piece of kit that is quietly changing how franchised dealers price the cars on their forecourts. Their digital pricing display sits on the windscreen of a used vehicle, looks crisp from across the lot, updates remotely, and runs on a battery that lasts roughly four years. No Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth, no SIM cards, and no expensive infrastructure on site. The technology is the result of more than twenty years of work in automotive point of sale, and it has taken the company close to a decade to crack a problem the industry had largely given up on, namely how you display vehicle pricing outdoors in a way that is accurate, weatherproof, and genuinely affordable.

The names already using the system tell you most of what you need to know. Renault Retail Group rolled the displays out across their network and have publicly said they would never go back to QR codes. Drive Green have had them in for a year and credit the system with faster sales and a meaningful chunk of admin time handed back to their sales teams. Sytner are trialling them too. For 2026, Rallye Digital has been shortlisted at the AM Awards for Best New Product & Service, named a finalist for IT Innovation of the Year at both the Motor Trader Commercial Industry Awards and the Independent Dealer Awards, and the team are heading to the Park Plaza, the Belfry, and the Vox Birmingham off the back of it.

The business operates from Marshall Hall Mills in Elland, West Yorkshire, which is a thirty mile drive from where I live in Leeds. Two Yorkshire businesses, one race weekend a fortnight, and a championship that puts both of us in front of the exact audience that buys, sells, and runs cars for a living. It works.

2. Why It Fits The Car

Porsche Carrera Cup GB is the most-watched single-make championship in Britain. Live ITV coverage, the BTCC paddock around us, eight of the country's most demanding circuits, and a viewership that skews heavily toward the kind of people Rallye Digital sell to, dealer principals, group operations directors, OEM marketing teams, and the franchised retail networks. A logo on a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup running at the sharp end of the Pro-Am category will sit in front of that audience for the next 5 months, on the broadcast, on the timing graphics, on the pit walls, and across every photograph and clip that comes out of the championship.

There's a deeper fit too. Rallye Digital sell precision. The pricing on a vehicle has to be right, has to update on time, and has to hold up under direct sunlight on a wet Tuesday in February. Carrera Cup is a precision championship. Every lap is data, every tyre choice is data, every braking point is data, and the difference between a podium and a points finish is usually decided in tenths. The two worlds talk to each other naturally.

3. Thanks To Daniel Lloyd

This one needs saying clearly. The partnership with Rallye Digital came together because of Daniel Lloyd. The 2025 BTCC Independents' Champion opened the door, made the introductions, and put the conversation in the right room at the right time, and we wouldn't be writing this post without him. Daniel is taking a sabbatical from BTCC for 2026, but he is anything but standing still. His new Ignition Business Club is already up and running, connecting business owners across the motorsport world with each other and with the brands that want to be associated with them, and this partnership is exactly the kind of outcome that network exists to deliver.

The paddock is full of people who tell you they'll help. Daniel actually does. Properly grateful, and I owe him one.

4. A Word From The Driver

"Rallye Digital coming on board is a brilliant moment for the team. They're a Yorkshire business, they're winning in their own industry, and they're backing a Yorkshire driver in a championship that takes everything you've got. That kind of fit is rare, and I don't take it for granted. Massive thanks to the whole team at Rallye Digital for the trust they've shown, and a proper thank you to Daniel Lloyd for getting this over the line through the Ignition Business Club. The #12 will be carrying their colours all season, and I want to make sure the racing earns the partnership every time we go out of the garage." — Jonny Moore

5. What Happens Next

Rallye Digital branding will appear on the JTR-run 911 GT3 Cup from the Snetterton round of the 2026 Porsche Carwow Carrera Cup GB season, and the relationship will run across the full championship calendar. Beyond the on-car presence, both teams will be working together at race weekends and on co-branded content through the season. If you're in the franchised dealer space and you'd like to see the Rallye Digital system in action, you can book a live demo through their website at rallyedigital.com, or come and find us in the paddock. We'll happily make the introduction.

That's the partnership confirmed and the thanks delivered. Now the only thing left to do is get on with the racing and make sure the #12 is somewhere worth photographing every weekend.