🇬🇧 Ed Mcdermott

Ed McDermott is a Bronze-rated amateur sportscar driver competing in the British GT Championship, a grading that places him among gentleman racers and amateurs typically sharing cars with professionals in GT and endurance racing. His Racer Rating of 3,313 puts him in the semi-professional band; in context, this describes a driver who wins in pro-am and one-make classes and runs mid-pack among full professionals, though McDermott's five-season record shows him finishing consistently in the middle of the field rather than regularly at the sharp end. Across 27 starts in the British GT Championship from 2022 to 2026, he has taken three podiums but never won a race, averaging a finishing position of P7.9.[1]

McDermott has contested the British GT Championship primarily for Mahiki Racing over this period. His head-to-head record against regular rivals reveals a pattern of outpacing some mid-field drivers, particularly Josh Miller and Chris Salkeld, but struggling consistently against the stronger professionals in the field. Against Jack Brown, the 2025 British GT Championship GT4 champion and a significantly more accomplished driver, McDermott finished ahead only three times in 18 shared races. His most notable results include occasional finishes ahead of established professionals such as Zac Meakin and Stuart Hall, both FIA Silver-graded drivers, and a single outing better than Tom Ingram, a multiple BTCC champion at Gold level; these remain isolated results rather than a sustained pattern of competitive advantage over that calibre of competitor. His racing has been steady and persistent rather than distinguished, placing him squarely in the amateur ranks of top-level sportscar racing.