Brands Hatch – 11th May – Race 2 In intermittent sunny and cloudy conditions for the late-afternoon race, Paul Bailey and Andy Schulz confirmed their dominance of the day in the SB Race Engineering Ferrari 488 Challenge with a convincing win. It could have been so different though – despite pre-race predictions that the “aero” cars – the Praga and the Sakers – would struggle to compete on the tight confines of the Indy circuit, this was proving, rain or shine, not to be the case, and Paul Rose accentuated…
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Race Report – A Win for Bailey and Schulz in Difficult Circumstances
Brands Indy – 11th May 2019 – Race 1 Paul Bailey and Andy Schulz, in the SB Race Engineering Ferrari 488 Challenge, took the win in Saturday lunchtime’s opening race of the day, victorious in a race blighted by attrition, Safety Cars, biblical rain and penalties. It all started early in the race; Sarah Moore brought the Ginetta G50 in after five laps with a broken diff bracket. The reduced Tockwith crew (Nigel Moore was away on ELMS duty) got to work to fix it, and Moh Ritson rejoined just minutes…
Read MoreRace Report – JMH Automotive win round 2
John Seale and Marcus Clutton, in the JMH Automotive Lamborghini Huracan, won the second race of the day with a clear lap advantage over the opposition, but in the opening laps once again had to give best to the VR Motorsport Praga. With 33 cars on the circuit, even the pace lap was a bit close, and as the red lights went out for the start, Ben Sharich’s Taranis leapt from the second row to make it three abreast towards Abbey, though Tim Gray had got ahead by the time…
Read MoreRace Report – VR Motorsport’s Praga Wins Season Opener
Tim Gray, driving the stunning VR Motorsport Praga R1T, took a convincing win in the opening round of the Championship, striding away from the field at the start, then responding to a late-race challenge. The Praga had signalled notice of intent on the early-morning Free Practice session, but in Qualifying had to give best to the new Lamborghini Huracan of car owner John Seale and pro-driver Marcus Clutton, just half a second separating the two front-row starters, which the modest Clutton put down to luck as much as anything; “I…
Read MoreBumper entry for Britcar first round
A capacity entry of thirty six cars have entered for the first round of the 2019 Dunlop Britcar Endurance Championship, running this weekend on the Silverstone International circuit. There is plenty of potential action in stall with a revised race format this year, replacing the past where all cars would start together and those entered into the sprint car class would leave the track at the timed conclusion of their race, while those in the endurance class would continue. Now, having listened to the wishes of entrants, each championship round…
Read MoreVR Motorsport Bring Praga to the Britcar Grid
Founded in 1907, and possibly most famous for the V3S off-road truck, Praga are based in Prague in the Czech Republic. Based on the R1R road car, their R1 race car, first built in 2012, is powered by a mid-mounted Renault Sport-sourced 2 litre turbocharged inline-four cylinder engine. VR Motorsport’s Vincent Randall takes up the story “VR Motorsport started racing 10 years ago in the 750 club RGB class, running Spire and Mittell cars. In 2016 we decided to stop running multiple cars and concentrate on one more specialised car,…
Read MoreMike Moss returns with BMW to Britcar Endurance
It doesn’t seem long ago that Mike Moss took his first racing steps in the Trackday Trophy, and in a fairly short space of time he has claimed three Britcar titles and a class win in the 2017 Silverstone 24hrs race – all in his Moss Motorsport BMW M3 E46, which last year, in the hands of Kris Prosser and Jon Watt, took the Britcar Sprint crown. Moss himself, meanwhile has been concentrating on his team’s unique BMW 1M E82, the innovative machine engineered by Moss Motorsport’s engineering associates Ash…
Read MoreMore entries confirmed for 2019 Season
Following on from a successful Autosport International show is news that a further three entries have been confirmed for the 2019 Britcar Endurance Championship. Class winners and long-time campaigners Marcus Fothergill and Dave Bennett will be returning with their Bespoke Cars racing Porsche 997. No stranger to success within the Britcar ranks, they enjoyed a strong 2018 season, claiming several class wins and podiums during the season. Running a shortened season by entering four of the eight rounds will be experienced racer David Mason OBE, who will be sharing a…
Read MoreExciting times ahead for 2019 Dunlop Endurance Championship, run by Britcar Endurance
The recent Autosport International started what looks to be a busy but exciting season ahead for Managing Director Claire Hedley and her team at Britcar Endurance. Amongst the announcements made at the show was the return of reigning champion Sarah Moore, who will be returning to the championship along with new signing Moh Ritson in in one of Tockwith Motorsport’s Ginetta G50s. They are not strangers to each other, Sarah being 17-year-old Moh’s driver coach over the past season while he competed in the BARC’s Junior Saloons category, and therefore…
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