The 2012 Britcar 24 Hours reached its halfway mark with the Class 2 BMW MP Motorsport still leading the field with a comfortable margin over the chasing Class 1 cars.
The hour began under the fifth safety car of the proceedings, however it was only a short period of time before the green flag racing began. The safety car caused a jam of cars at the end of the pitlane, after a number of cars were held at pit exit. A majority of the cars filtered out problem free, however the #35 Marcos managed to collect the #93 Mission Motorsport car as they met on the exit of Copse corner.
The hour saw little action apart from the coming together of two key Class 3 protagonists, with the only other note worthy action being in Class 4, where the leaders were separated by 15 seconds or less throughout the hour and in a fight for fourth place the the #88 Rollcenter Racing car and the #78 Piranha crossed the line side-by-side at the end of the hour.
In Class 1, the hour finished with MB Racing Aston Martin leading the way with the #17 Strara 21 Mosler six laps behind. In Class 2, the MP Motorsport BMW continues to lead the class and field, holding a more than comfortable lead over the chasing pack. In Class 3 the hour ended with the class leading, and fourth overall, #60 Perfection Racing Aston Martin being pushed into the garage just a few laps a pit stop. The second placed MMC Motorsport Seat is well down on the #60, however their lead depends on how long they stay in the garage.
2012 Britcar 24 Standings After 13 Hours:
Class One:
1 -MB Racing – West/Wall/Brown/Cripps
2 -Neil Garner Motorsport – White/Cintrano/Morcillo/Sharp
3 – Team LNT – Tomlinson/Kimber-Smith/Dean/Simpson
Class Two:
1 – MP Motorsport – Poole/Symons/Bardwell/Abra
2 – Optimum Motorsport – Osborne/Mowle/Fletcher/Rattenbury
3 – Topcats Racing – Huggins/Bankhurst/Black/Solivellas
Class Three :
1 – Perfection Racing – Spires/Jensen/Johanson/Holmgaard/Klosterman
2- MMC Motorsport – Cox/Borness/Cox/Cox
3 -Intersport Racing – Clarke/Gibson/Hayes/Radcliffe
Class Four:
1 – Brunswick Automotive – Griffiths/Green/Kirkpatrick/Forsbrey
2 – RedCamel.nl – Thijssen/De Heus/Breukers
3 – Team Toyota GB – Hodgetts/Death/Death
