ASHLEY GREGORY Fights Through Technical Issues for Double Top-10 at Silverstone

September 30, 2025

by LIAM REDFORD // from www.racers-behindthehelmet.com

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ASHLEY GREGORY entered Silverstone fresh off securing her first-ever Vertu Mini Challenge Trophy victory after Olivier Algieri’s post-race disqualification promoted her Donington Park second-place finish to a win. The promotion also bumped her up to fifth in championship standings, keeping her title hopes alive despite sitting 90 points behind leader Alex Keens but only 31 behind second-place Gabe Fairbrother heading into the penultimate round.
Technical gremlins haunted GREGORY throughout the Silverstone weekend, limiting her Friday testing to just a handful of laps and forcing her to qualify 16th—though she was only six-tenths off pole position in the ultra-competitive field. Her season had started with championship aspirations as one of the series’ most experienced drivers, and despite setbacks at Brands Hatch and a retirement at Thruxton that cost her the points lead, she’d shown frontrunning pace with multiple runner-up finishes.
In Saturday’s opening race, GREGORY demonstrated the racecraft that’s made her a title contender, charging from 13th on the grid to run inside the top-10 before contact dropped her to 17th. She methodically fought back through the field, setting personal best lap times and finishing 14th before a post-race penalty to another driver promoted her to 13th—all within five seconds of race winner Rhys Hurd in the tightly-packed field.
Sunday’s mixed conditions couldn’t stop GREGORY’s momentum as she delivered back-to-back tenth-place finishes in races two and three. In the damp second race, she was posting top-five lap times and running as the second-fastest driver on track at one point, using smart racecraft to gain two positions on the final lap. The dry third race saw more of the same grit, as she climbed from 16th to tenth after a red flag restart, cutting a four-second deficit to just three seconds behind the leaders while avoiding the chaos that eliminated other championship contenders.