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

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. Race results and timing sourced from the official championship timing partner, TSL Timing.