The 2018 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner joins incumbents Rob Bell and Marvin Kirchhofer in McLaren’s manufacturing facility roster, with Joe Osborne and Euan Hankey understood to now not be works contracted.
Gamble has raced in sportscars since 2019, most notably profitable the European Le Mans Collection LMP3 crown in 2020 with United Autosports.
The 21-year-old stepped as much as the LMP2 class for 2021 and has gained two ELMS races outright, whereas additionally constructing his GT expertise with a full World Endurance Championship GTE Am programme aboard a Gulf Racing Porsche in 2021 and chosen IMSA SportsCar Championship outings with the Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin squad.
He made his debut aboard a McLaren 720S GT3 within the Asian Le Mans Collection on the Dubai Autodrome in February, the place following a last-minute call-up by Storage 59 he claimed a fourth place end alongside Benjamin Goethe and Alexander West.
A programme for Gamble, who claimed pole for his maiden British GT debut aboard a Century Motorsport BMW in 2019, has but to be introduced.
McLaren Automotive’s director of motorsport Ian Morgan stated: “Tom has confirmed to be a formidable sportscar and GT racer and can slot in nicely with Rob and Marvin in our manufacturing facility driver line-up.”
In the meantime McLaren has named Goethe and Nicolai Kjærgaard as the primary drivers signed to its new Junior Professional Driver class for promising younger GT drivers.
Goethe was topped champion within the Silver class of GT World Problem Europe Endurance Cup final season driving a WRT Audi, and has been confirmed alongside Kjærgaard for this yr’s Dash Cup marketing campaign. The Danish duo in the meantime will race with Kirchhofer within the Endurance Cup.
Kjærgaard, the 2018 BRDC British Formulation three runner-up, has been an everyday with Storage 59-run Aston Martin and McLaren equipment in current seasons.
Each will obtain mentoring from the trio of manufacturing facility drivers, along with newly-appointed McLaren Academy Driver Aston Millar.
Millar gained the 2021 Ginetta Junior title and completed third within the remaining season of the GT Supercup final season.
“Benjamin, Nicolai and Aston are thrilling future prospects and we’re actually trying ahead to seeing how they progress by 2023,” Morgan added.
