Legends Cars Championship Media Release –
• Almost 20 drivers already confirmed for new Legends Cars campaign
• Reigning and two-time Legends Champion Will Gibson to defend title
• Elite Cup Champion Jack Parker also back to renew battle with Gibson
• Tremendous strength in depth guaranteed for 12-round calendar
Legends Cars Championship racing is set to deliver yet another outstanding season of action this year, with an entry of almost 20 drivers already confirmed with five weeks still to go until the first two rounds of the 2025 campaign.
In fantastic news for fans of the 5/8 scale pocket rockets, the top two finishers from last year’s Championship are back to do battle once again – reigning and back-to-back Legends Cars Champion Will Gibson (Camberley) and Legends Cars Elite Cup Champion Jack Parker (Wolverhampton).
Aiming to make it three outright title victories in succession, which would make him only the second driver in Legends Cars Championship history to do so after John Mickel, Gibson will certainly begin the year as the man to beat.
Parker, meanwhile, will be equally determined to retain the Elite Cup crown he secured in 2024 and every bit as focused on toppling long-time rival Gibson, in his quest to claim a first overall Legends Cars Championship title.
Tyler Read (Weedon), one of the absolute stars of Legends Cars racing for the past two years, came oh so close to winning the Elite Cup last season – a mere five points the difference between he and Parker – and was third in the outright Championship. Impressing massively since debuting in 2023, Read could very easily be on top of the mountain in both battles come the end of the season.
Multiple race winner Luke Simmons (Lingfield) is another of the young hot-shots making a welcome return and, having finished seventh in the standings last year in the Championship and Elite Cup, he will be targeting much more.
Reigning Legends Cars Masters Cup Champion Nick Bridgeman (Baldock) is back to defend his crown while Peter Barrable (Dublin), Masters Cup Champion of the Elite Cup, also returns to try and retain his title and usurp Bridgeman in the Championship. Determined to be a spoiler in the Masters will be Legends Cars mainstay Nathan Anthony (Horley) in his very popular Se-Van.
Exciting Irish star Jamie Moylan (Naas) will bolster the quality at the front, a race winner and multiple podium finisher in his maiden year racing on the British mainland, and he will be joined on the grid by compatriot Owen Lawlor (Dublin) – the pair having been part of POB Racing’s Team Car Championship winning entry last season.
Scotland’s Ross Marshall (Alloa) is another huge talent and welcome returnee to the Championship, having won the Rookie Cup crown in 2008 and subsequently becoming a double title winner in Legends north of the border in 2009 and 2011. Marshall has also enjoyed success in rallying.
Further quality comes in the shape of 2011 Legends Cars Champion Stephen Treherne (Islington), Nick Price (March), Matt Knight (Shoreham by Sea), and former Legends Cars Vice-Champion Steve Whitelegg (Bury).
Returning for the first time since 2022 is the venerable Rickie Leggatt (Worthing), while ‘Most Improved Driver’ of 2024 Ben Mahoney (Surrey) will contest his second season of motor racing at any level when he lines up on the grid for the opening event of the season next month.
It wouldn’t be Legends Cars racing without the unmistakable #2Mater. Well, fear not, as James Newbery (Burgess Hill) – who was presented with the ‘Cooper Cup’ during the recent 2024 awards evening – is back for his sixth year in the category. Graham Butler (Rye), meanwhile, returns for his second year in Legends Cars and will be sure to make good progress.
There is also a very warm welcome for newcomer James Pendleton (Shawforth), a former soldier in the British Army. Having spent 12 years serving in the armed forces, with six operational tours, Pendleton left the army to have a family and did plan to race regularly until his father very sadly passed away following a road accident. Now, he is about to embark on his debut year in Legends.
More entries will be confirmed over the coming weeks, ahead of the start of the 2025 Legends Cars Championship at Donington Park Grand Prix Circuit over the weekend 29th/30th March. The sister Elite Cup will begin during the following event, a support slot with the British GT Championship at Oulton Park on Saturday, 24th May, and Spring Bank Holiday Monday, 26th May.
Photo credits: George McNeill, Lewis Steadman and Graham Holbon
