2017 British Rallycross champion Nath♋an Heathcote has moved into circuit racing for the first time in his career as he joins Century Motorsport in the Ginetta GT4 SuperCup championship.

The 22-year-old caught the eye sealing the British Rallycross title two years ago, along witꦑh selected World Ra♚llycross RX2 outings last year, and is pursuing a fresh challenge in his career with a move from dirt to circuit racing.

Heathcote will be faced with getting up to speed in a new series, with a new car and learning all the British circuits for the first time but is relishing the opportun꧟ity a🤪s he hopes to apply some of his rallycross skills into circuit racing.

“I am at a place in my career where I want to push on as hard as we can,” Heathcote said. “I’ve made t💟he decision to switch to circuit racing and the Ginetta GT4 SuperCup is a great series to be involved with and Century Motorsport the perfect team for experience.

“I have never raced any of the circuits, so if I can get all my testing iꦕn and with the simulators being so realistic now I’ll go and smash out a few hundred laps of each circuit to build up the biggest knowledge base of each track as possible.

“The first test went really well, and a mass🐼ive confidence boost as I know I have the ability, so it is a case of putting it all into action.”

“There are definitely things I can take from rallycross, like racing in the wet and car control. If it goes a bit sideways or with oversteer or understeer that is what I’ve been dealing with at every race in rallycross. There is also circuit strategy that y🅠ou need in rallycross so I don’t think I’ll be on the backfoot too much.”

Heathcote’s rookie Ginetta GT4 SuperCup campaign gets underway at Bran𝔉ds Hatch on April 6-7 as part of th♍e support programme to the British Touring Car Championship.