The Milltek Civic Cup – Rounds 6, 7 & 8
Silverstone National – 17th & 18th May 2025

Three more podium finishes at Silverstone (17-18 May), including a win in the weekend finale, ensured Alistair Camp extended his lead at the top of the Milltek Civic Cup championship standings.

Amid typically sensational racing for the Civic Cup at the home of British motorsport, Lewis Kent was also a race winner to keep up his own championship challenge, while Dave Marshall took his first win of the season.

Qualifying

It was Area Motorsport driver Alistair Camp who set the pace in Saturday morning qualifying to secure pole position for the opening race and maintain his unbeaten record against the clock this year.

Camp’s team-mate and fellow FN2 model driver Wesley Swain was second quickest, just over a quarter of a second slower than his team leader. Behind them, the margins were incredibly tight with barely a second covering second to seventh fastest.

The Area Motorsport squad filled six of those seven places with Silverstone expert Dave Marshall (DMR with KA Car Sales) the only man to break their monopoly of the front three rows. Marshall was third quickest, completing a 1-2-3 for the FN2 which was making its marginally higher power output count around Silverstone’s straights.

Best of the EP3s was Lewis Kent, ahead of Area team-mates Harvey Caton, Liam McGill and Jake Hewlett. The quickest non-Area EP3 belonged to Ben Sharpe Racing’s Jake Renshaw, eighth fastest, ahead of Matt Wilkins (Motion Motorsport) and Daniel Petters.

Drivers’ second fastest qualifying times are just as important as their best laps because they set the grid for the third race of the weekend. It was teenage starlet Swain who secured pole position for that, ahead of Caton and Kent.

Camp could only manage fourth best, one of the few drivers unable to improve from his opening runs. Marshall also slipped to seventh, behind McGill and Hewlett who completed an Area Motorsport top-six lockout.

SILVERSTONE NATIONAL QUALIFYING RESULT

 

Race Report – Round 6

Camp successfully converted pole into the race lead on Saturday afternoon but Swain was beaten into second by Marshall. However, it all went wrong for Marshall at the second corner, Becketts. The back of his car stepped out and he was pitched wide, dropping down the order.

That put Swain second, but he was immediately back under pressure, with Kent and McGill both getting though on the inside at the start of lap three of 14.

Camp and Kent then each pulled out a slight gap to their pursuers. Kent nibbled away at Camp’s advantage of around a second, but the 2021 champion appeared to have everything under control.

That was until the last lap, when Camp’s FN2 suddenly slowed down the Wellington Straight, fuel surge the cause. Kent swept past to snatch his third win of the season in unexpected fashion, while a quick reset by Camp allowed him to at least hold onto second and limit the damage.

Behind them, Swain also lost out to Caton, who then shadowed McGill but was unable to find a way past the Scotsman who completed the podium. Marshall recovered to sixth ahead of Hewlett and Wilkins, who took the laurels in the Goodyear Diamond Award for drivers aged 40 and over.

The top 10 was completed by Renshaw – winner of the Paul Winfield Trophy section for rookies and less experienced drivers – and Petters.

SILVERSTONE NATIONAL RACE ONE RESULT

Race Report – Round 7

Petters’s 10th place handed him pole position for the weekend’s second race, the grid for which is set by a reversal of the top 10 from the opening race.

In what would become a sensational contest, Petters’s lead only lasted half a lap before Hewlett dived ahead into Becketts. That pair were still in front when Caton suffered a nasty-looking incident at the start of the second lap – an oil leak leading to a flash fire under his car as he spun into the gravel.

A lap later, Hewlett was first to arrive back on the scene. He spun on the oil but was fortunately able to gather the car up and was then handed a reprieve when the resulting safety car was upgraded to a red flag to allow a full clear-up.

On countback, it was Hewlett on pole position for the restarted race, ahead of Petters and Marshall. And it was Marshall who made the most of a second race start, rounding Petters at Copse to take second. He then ran wide at the next corner, dropping back behind Petters and McGill, only to ambush the pair at the end of the Wellington Straight into Brooklands.

A lap later, Marshall challenged Hewlett for the lead at the same corner but the back end stepped out Marshall did well to just hold onto second. He immediately went back on the offensive to take the lead into Copse half a lap later, with McGill following through into second.

As Swain passed Petters for fourth through Luffield and Woodcote at the end of the lap, McGill was about to snatch the lead from Marshall at the next corner. The top four then seemed content to work together and break away from the battles behind over the next few laps.

That changed as Hewlett and Swain began trading third place. Their battle gave Marshall a slight cushion which allowed him the freedom to challenge McGill for the lead once more. After a few probes, he executed a fine switchback manoeuvre through the complex, completing the move at Luffield. McGill tried to fight back but his chance had gone and he had to settle for a fifth podium of the season. Marshall, meanwhile, celebrated his first win for nearly two years.

Further down the top 10, Kent and Camp initially seemed to hamper each other as they traded places while working their way forward. But Camp eventually got the better of his team-mate after both had passed Petters for fifth and sixth. Camp, the most experienced Civic driver on the grid, was then in position to pounce as Hewlett and Swain battled. He passed both over the final three tours to secure third and gain some crucial points over Kent who was unable to do likewise. The two-time TCR UK champion had to settle for sixth as Swain took fourth and Hewlett fifth.

Seventh was the best result of the season for Josh Bromley who gave a fine account of himself, joining in the Kent/Camp battle at one stage and managing to get the better of Petters for Paul Winfield Trophy honours. Meanwhile, Wilkins’s retirement from the race allowed Graham Ross to top the Goodyear Diamond Award classification in his self-run FN2.

SILVERSTONE NATIONAL RACE TWO RESULT

 

Race Report – Round 8

The weekend finale was unlikely to live up to the excitement of the reversed-grid race but it still served up plenty more entertainment as Alistair Camp took his second win of the season.

From third on the grid, Camp immediately dispatched Caton and then latched onto polesitter Swain. A slight mistake put the young gun on the defensive at Becketts and that was all Camp needed to scythe down the inside and into the lead at Brooklands on lap three of 14.

From there it was relatively plain sailing for the championship leader, although he did report afterwards that his car’s performance dropped off in the middle portion of the race.

Behind Camp, Swain was under threat from McGill and Kent who had both passed Caton before McGill took third from his team-mate. But Swain was able to soak up the pressure and eke out a slight advantage as McGill fell prey to Kent – a mistake allowed the Essex driver to get a run down the Wellington Straight.

Camp went on to take a comfortable win by 1.8s from Swain who secure his first podium finish of 2025, with Kent completing the trophy positions. McGill had to settle for fourth, comfortably clear of race two winner Marshall who got the better of Caton mid-race.

Caton also lost out to Bromley on the final lap, by just 0.18s, as the former MG and Mazda racer scored his best ever Milltek Civic Cup result in sixth position as well as topping the Paul Winfield Trophy section.

Hewlett was eighth ahead of Goodyear Diamond Award winner Wilkins. Tenth went to Renshaw, to complete his best weekend of the season with top-10 finishes in all three races.

SILVERSTONE NATIONAL RACE THREE RESULT

Another fine weekend from Camp means he extends his lead at the top of the overall championship standings. He has also moved ahead of Lewis Kent after dropped scores are applied now too, holding a 13-point advantage. McGill is another 12 points further back in what is starting to look like a three-horse race for the title as the season approaches its mid-point.

The likes of Caton, Swain, Hewlett and Marshall will be looking to prove that isn’t the case when the Milltek Civic Cup reconvenes for Rounds 9, 10 and 11 of the championship at Croft in North Yorkshire over the weekend of 14/15 June.

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS AFTER SILVERSTONE NATIONAL

Driver Quotes

Round 6 winner, Lewis Kent

“That was Ali’s win, to be honest. After Brands Hatch, which was supposed to be a real nice weekend for me, home circuit and all that, and I had two races that really didn’t go to plan… everyone has bad luck. It’s unfortunate that it’s happened to Ali today. But it’s good points for us.”

Round 7 winner, Dave Marshall

“A proper race, wasn’t it? I had a car underneath me that I could actually race with – I have, to be fair, all season. It was awful to see Caton go off with the issue he had, but it put us in a pretty good scenario for the restart.

“The way Liam was driving, I was never going to get past on outright speed. I knew if I was to get him anywhere it was going to have to be at the last complex. The key is just to put your car somewhere where he can’t defend it, and luckily it worked out.”

Round 8 winner, Alistair Camp

“I didn’t know how easy it was going to be to pass Swain. He just made that one mistake so I got the run and then pieced a few laps together. But the car went absolutely dire through the middle of the race. I was getting myself agitated and I was like ‘slow it down a bit’, and I managed to get myself within two tenths of my fastest lap towards the end.”

Next time – Croft!

The 2025 Milltek Civic Cup is back in action in just over 4 weeks, on Saturday 14th June and Sunday 15th June at Croft in Yorkshire.

Our trip north will see the classic venue hosting rounds nine, ten and eleven play out across the weekend

Racing action will take place on the Saturday and Sunday with both days livestreamed on the official TCR UK YouTube channel.

You can purchase tickets for the next event of the 2025 season at Croft from their website:
https://croftcircuit.co.uk/racing/tcr

To find out more about the Milltek Civic Cup visit https://civic-cup.co.uk/ for more info and how to get involved.

To find out more about the events on the 2025 Milltek Civic Cup Calendar, visit https://civic-cup.co.uk/2025-season-calendar/ for more info.