Summit Motorsports — Global Endurance Tour: Interlagos
Team: Summit Motorsports Car: #333 BMW M4 GT3 Drivers: Bryson Richardson, Les Munday, Matt Morrison, Cesar Colon Torres, Dave McCollough, Harvey Horspool Result: P8 — GT3 Class
Summit Factory Motorsports made its Global Endurance Tour debut at Interlagos, fielding a stacked six-driver lineup in the BMW M4 GT3. What followed was a grueling day-into-night endurance test — full of late-race contact, a penalty chess match, and a driver squad that never stopped clawing back. The result: a hard-earned P8 finish in the team's first-ever GET outing.
Qualifying Bryson Richardson set the tone early, qualifying the BMW P9 in the stacked GT3 class field. Early Stints — Building Momentum Bryson opened the race and immediately made his intentions clear, climbing as high as P4 before making the first scheduled stop for tires and fuel, rejoining P9. He kept the car in the top ten through the balance of his opening stint, running strong and consistent as the day's heat began to build. The car's second stop told the story of that opening run: Bryson brought it in from P2, having turned in a standout double stint through rising track temps. Les Munday took over from there.
The Long Middle — Consistency Through the Heat Les Munday settled into the car and immediately impressed, keeping things clean through his first stop and continuing his double stint before handing off to Matt Morrison in P12. Across both stints, Les was praised for consistency and staying out of trouble — exactly what an endurance program needs in the sweltering middle hours. Matt Morrison then delivered in his first-ever team endurance event, managing the car and traffic well through a fuel-only stop in P11 and carrying that composure through his double stint, handing to Cesar Colon Torres in P10 — a genuinely excellent double stint from a rookie to this kind of racing.
Cesar picked up right where Matt left off. A stop saw the car still in P10 with the team praising race pace and traffic management, and while the position slipped briefly to P12, Cesar steadied the ship and brought the car back in P10, handing to Dave McCollough as the race crossed into night. Into the Night Dave took the reins as darkness fell, working through a fuel-only stop and dealing with difficult night traffic before a strong stop saw the car climb to P7 — one of the run's high points, with Dave navigating traffic and a few near misses along the way. Bryson rotated back in from there (stepping into what had originally been slated as Harvey Horspool's stint) and kept the car clean and out of trouble through his next stop, still holding P7.
The Hard Stretch Endurance racing rarely goes clean wire to wire, and the toughest moment of the race arrived when a GTP competitor made a poor outside pass attempt on Bryson, spun itself, and collected the BMW in the process. Bryson dove into the pits for roughly two minutes of repairs, dropping the car to P10 — through no fault of his own. True to form, Bryson clawed the position back before handing to Dave, who continued the fight — including surviving a self-inflicted spin at the back of the track, gathering it back up, and pressing on to bring the car home in P8. Fatigue was setting in for both Dave and Bryson after the sheer number of laps they'd shared, but the car held firm in P8 on the next stop before Bryson took over again. Shortly after, Bryson overshot a braking zone and clipped the wall, costing another two minutes in the pits and dropping the team to P10 on exit.
Penalty Management Under Pressure A wrinkle arrived alongside a needed pit stop: the team picked up a black flag for incident accumulation, calling for a drive-through penalty. Rather than run the drive-through and complete another lap before servicing the car, the team elected to speed through the pit lane — voiding the drive-through in exchange for a 55-second stop-and-hold. A sharp strategic call that kept the car in P9 rather than costing additional track time and tire wear.
Bringing It Home Bryson dug in through the fatigue, holding a strong pace into his next stop and handing to Cesar Colon Torres in P8. From there, it was Harvey Horspool and Cesar who closed the show, trading the remaining stints between them. After everything the car had been through — contact, wall damage, a penalty situation, and six drivers worth of fatigue — Harvey and Cesar brought the composure needed to see it home clean, holding the line lap after lap without incident and bringing the Summit Motorsports BMW M4 GT3 across the line in P8. A fitting way to close out the team's first Global Endurance Tour event.
The Takeaway For a team's first-ever Global Endurance Tour start, P8 is a statement result. Six drivers, contact from another class, a self-inflicted wall tap, a penalty situation handled with sharp thinking, and hours of night running — and the car came home in the top ten. Bryson Richardson's pace at both ends of the race, Les Munday's steady hand through the heat, Matt Morrison's composed rookie endurance debut, Dave McCollough's gritty night stints through traffic and a self-inflicted spin, and Cesar and Harvey closing it out all point to a program that's ready to build on this result.