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- The Attempto Racing Lamborghini Huracan caged in the garage by another car.
- The 12H GT and Proto races shared their final seven hours with the 24H TCES.
- Rick Breukers did double duty, driving this GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini and the family SEAT.
- Fox Motorsport made the UK competitive debut for the Audi R8 LMS GT, the new GT4 offering from the four rings.
- The FF Corse run Red River Sport Ferrari 488 GT3, a driver coaching programme from the ‘retired’ Jonny Mowlem.
- IDEC Sport ran a Porsche in the 911 class and a Mercedes in the A2 class.
- Blood brothers: The Audi R8 LMS and Lamborghini Huracan GT3, two answers to the same question, from the same parts bin.
- One of the few shots of the IDEC Sport cars together. The Mercedes would be destroyed at the Wing shortly after.
- Bonamy Grimes waits to jump aboard the Red River Sport Ferrari.
- Low car counts gave pleanty of space for independent laps.
- But battling up and down the field was always available.
- The eventual winners of the GT element of the race, the ROFGO Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3.
- The Porsche pair, one Porsche Laurent Racing 991 Cup car and the Herberth Motorsport RSR, the GT3 offering.
- Stuart Hall was supposed to do double duty, driving an Audi TCR as well as the ROFGO Mercedes, but excessive celebrating made it impossible.
- A legend of the 24H Series, the Precote Herberth Porsche was known for metronomic preceision, until a big and gravelly off.
- Car Collection Motorsport were the Audi GT3 flag carriers, they had two cars at Silverstone.
- PROsport Performance entered a Mercedes-Benz, then fell on the back foot as they also tried to enter the boot of the ROFGO car at the start.
- Porsches went to the fore early on as tricky weather conditions highlighted the bonus of having an engine over the back axle.
- Early problems put the golden Lamborghini out of contention.
- Speed differential between the Cup cars and the GT3 wasn’t that great, it was on the brakes that the more expensive machines gained the upper hand.
- Podium bound, the GRT Grasser Racing Team #963 took third place.
- The #33 Car Collection Motorsport Audi started the weekend with a trip back to the pits on a rope.
- A small field for the Proto series was headed by the Ginetta G57 of Simpson Motorsport.
- Wet weather added complications in the first segment of the race.
- But Saturday was glorious, if a little cold.
- Dirt was the main issue, with several cars dragging Northamptonshire mud onto the circuits cars were ordered to wash off required markings very early on.
- Told you it got wet! It was the rain that let a GT3 machine outpace the Prototypes on Friday.
- Done and victorious, the ROFGO Racing Mercedes returns to the pits on Saturday evening, winners of the inaugural 12H Silverstone.
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