The Enduro Motorsport McLaren came home with a one-minute lead, benefitting from the Safety Car which prevented 2 Seas Motorsports James Cottingham and Lewis Williamson benefitting from their early lead. Ram Racing’s Callum Macleod and Ian Loggie took third, Ian Loggie extending his points advantage in the championship to 15.5 points. In GT4, Jack Brown and Will Burns claimed their best result of the season, finishing 18 seconds behind the winning Academy Mustang. Tom Edgar and Jordan Collard recovered from a drive through penalty to round out the GT4 podium in the Toyota Gazoo Racing Supra.
The Enduro Motorsport McLaren came home with a one-minute lead, benefitting from the Safety Car which prevented 2 Seas Motorsports James Cottingham and Lewis Williamson benefitting from their early lead. Ram Racing’s Callum Macleod and Ian Loggie took third, Ian Loggie extending his points advantage in the championship to 15.5 points. In GT4, Jack Brown and Will Burns claimed their best result of the season, finishing 18 seconds behind the winning Academy Mustang. Tom Edgar and Jordan Collard recovered from a drive through penalty to round out the GT4 podium in the Toyota Gazoo Racing Supra.
Redline Racing’s duo, Alex Malykhin and James Dorlin took the GT3 Silver-Am class win, their second of the season whilst Matt Topham and Darren Turner claimed the Pro-Am class win in GT4.
GT3
Having taken advantage of the early safety car and carrying out an early driver change, the Enduro Motorsport McLaren truly capitalised on the situation after a disappointing performance last time out at Silverstone. Morgan Tillbrook was unable to prevent James Cottingham taking an early lead with a move that saw Cottingham sweep around the outside at Redgate and pull out an advantage of a couple of seconds. Adam Balon and Michael Igoe came together at the Melbourne Hairpin, resulting in a 10 second stop and go penalty for the WPI Lamborghini.
With Carbon shrapnel left over the track, the Safety Car was called out to allow the trackside marshalls’ to clear the track. With a swift round of pit stops, Clutton took the lead and with the race back on, extended his gap to 30 seconds. A steady, consistent performance from the Enduro crew extended the lead to 59.9 seconds by the flag. Further back however, the competition for second and third was exceptionally close. Euan Hankey took second at the restart after a tactical call from the team, delayed Mia Flewitt’s first stop by a lap, giving her a quieter pit lane. This left Scott Malvern, Nick Jones, Lewis Williamson and Callum Macleod bumper to bumper behind Euan Hankey.
Scott Malvern managed to get past Hankey at Goddards, Williamson made a move through at Redgate. The Porsche was caught up in an incident with the Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini, Sandy Mitchell moved for the apex at Redgate and collided with the unsighted Porsche. This put the Huracan into the gravel trap and at the back of the pack. The 2 Seas Motorsport Mercedes took second place with the Ian Loggie and Callum Macleod Ram Racing Mercedes taking third.
Mia Flewitt and Euan Hankey took fourth spot, their best GT3 result so far with the Redline Lamborghini securing fifth overall and first in Silver-Am. Michael Igoe and Phil Keen took sixth place, ahead of John Ferguson and Ulysse de Pauw. Shaun Balfe and Adam Carroll suffered a drive-through penalty for track limits, coming home eight. The Fox Motorsport McLaren and the Team Parker Porsche rounded out the top 10.
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GT4
Matt Cowley and Marco Signoretti came away from Donington Park with the win after a strong performance in the GT4 Ford Mustang. Signoretti took the start from fourth on the grid and got passed Matt Topham on the opening lap to take third, he capitalised on the spin from Richard Williams at the Old Hairpin a few laps later to inherit second place. Will Burns was on a charge in the Century Motorsport BMW, putting Signoretti under pressure, the pair swapping places before Signoretti reclaimed second and pulled out a small lead. The first round of pit stops took place under Safety Car and as the cars returned to track, the wave by procedure to re-establish the correct running order behind the Safety Car put Sennan Fielding almost a lap down on the GT4 pack.
The Academy Motorsport pit crew worked hard to ensure Cowley took the lead at the changeover, Cowley emerging on track ahead of Darren Turner in the Newbridge Motorsport Aston Martin. They quickly pulled away from the pack at the restart and were nose to tail throughout the stint, but with 68 minutes on the clock Cowley lost time when a GT3 car came passed down through the Craner Curves. The Newbridge Aston capitalised on the delay, Turner pulling out around the outside at the Old Hairpin and taking the lead. The Mustang pitted 15 minutes later, with Turner holding on for another 20 minutes before handing over to Topham. Signoretti managed to regain the lead, passing the Aston Martin and pulling out a six second advantage by the next round of pit stops.
Into the final hour and R Racing’s Aston Martin was poised to launch a final attack on the leading pair, however, a drive through penalty for track limit infringements put a stop to that. This dropped the R Racing crew down to fifth at the flag. Matt Cowley ran the final 45 minute stint in the Mustang, knowing that he six second lead and Newbridge’s Success Penalty would be enough for Academy Motorsport to take the win. The Newbridge Aston Martin lost another 25 seconds in the pit however, due to a fire on the front left brake. The #90 Century Motorsport BMW inherited second place and was chased to the flag by the Toyota Gazoo Racing UK Supra GT4 which would have been in contention for the win, had it not served a drive through penalty in the first 30 minutes of the race for track limits infringements. With Jordan Collard at the wheel for the final 30 minutes, the gap closed to less than half a second.
Further down the order, Jamie Orton and Seb Hopkins finished fourth, despite starting last and serving a 10 second stop go penalty for running the red light at the end of the pitlane. The R Racing Aston Martin rounded out the top five ahead of Ross Wylie and Matthew Graham in the Valluga Porsche who suffered a 15 second Success Penalty. Newbridge Motorsport eventually crossed the line seventh after their delays with Steller taking eighth. Chris Salkeld and Tom Rawlings came home ninth place, after making six pit stops and the Team Brit McLaren of Aaron Morgan and Bobby Trundley rounded out the top 10.
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