🇳🇱 Chris Buncombe

Chris Buncombe is a Bronze-graded amateur endurance driver who raced in international and national GT championships across two decades. He competed in shared-car GT racing, primarily with JMB Racing in the FIA GT Championship and latterly with Team RJN in the British GT Championship and GT World Challenge Europe.[1]

His indexed career spans from 2004 to 2024, with 22 starts across three series. In the FIA GT Championship he made 11 starts for JMB Racing between 2004 and 2006, racing against a field that included multiple champions. He returned to racing in 2019 with Team RJN in GT World Challenge Europe, then joined the British GT Championship from 2020 onwards, where he took a single podium finish across six starts. His most recent activity was GT World Challenge Europe in 2024, where he finished 40th in the championship standings from one round raced.[2]

The drivers he faced most often were series champions; Andrea Bertolini won the FIA GT Championship three times and Michael Bartels won it twice, and Buncombe regularly finished behind both. He did finish ahead of Charles Weerts and Jake Dennis on single occasions; both are established professionals with multiple GT World Challenge Europe and international titles respectively. His long career in amateur and semi-professional shared-car racing placed him among club and entry-level drivers, with occasional races against the professional tier that shared those grids.