It was a successful Saturday for Track Focused, who took pole and the first two wins of the weekend at Silverstone. Darren and James Kell were kept honest in their McLaren 720S GT3 by PB Racing, who finished runners-up to them throughout the day. 

With Mark Smith absent today due to other commitments, Track Focused made the most of his absence. With today’s results, they will cut into Paddock Motorsport’s championship advantage. 

RACE ONE

The first race of the weekend for the GT Cup Championship was the 25-minute sprint race; it was chaos just three minutes into the race with contact up at the front end of the field. 

Going out of Becketts and through Chapel, Marcus Vivian was up the inside of Mark Havers, which resulted in Havers for Topcats Racing spinning his way to the back of the field. 

Then, just moments later, Matt Eddolls spun the Paddock Motorsport car driven by Tim Docker out of the race down at Club Corner. He was unable to get his stricken McLaren out of the gravel trap, resulting in the first safety car of the weekend. 

Chris Valentine also exited the race for Oselli Motorsport just before the safety car came out, after being beached in the gravel trap just on the exit of Copse corner. 

With just over seven minutes to go, the safety car released the cars, and the racing resumed with Track Focused keeping the lead at the restart. They would hold onto it until the chequered flag to lead in the GT3 class and to take the overall win too. 

Topcats Racing’s other car fared better, taking an important win in the GTC class with Charlotte Gilbert taking fourth overall in the race. 

The GTO class was topped by SB Engineering, GTH was led by Innovation Racing, and first in class in GTA was SVG Motorsport. 

RACE TWO

Attention then turned to the second race of the weekend, the second sprint race of the weekend. It was a good start from Darren Kell, who kept the lead going into the first corner after battling side by side with PB Racing’s Peter Erceg.

With just over four minutes gone in the race, Valentine dropped to the back of the pack after going wide at Stowe corner. Then just two minutes later, he went off again, this time finding the gravel at Becketts. 

Things then went from bad to worse for Oselli Motorsport, as their #95 Aston Martin found the gravel on the exit of Copse corner.

With just over five minutes left, there was drama in the battle for third after G-Cat Racing’s David Shaw, who had defended the podium spot for so long in the race, was spun around by Jarrod Waberski in the #58 Topcats Racing car, ending Shaw’s chances of a podium. 

Track Focused crossed the line to take the GT3 and overall win, followed by PB Racing in second place. Topcats Racing won again in the GTC category, but this time the #58 car was leading the way. 

GTO was topped by CTR Developments, and SVG Motorsport won both their classes with both their respective cars (GTA and GTH).

Tomorrow we look ahead to the GT Cup 100, an endurance race to challenge teams, and with rain potentially on the horizon, it should give us some great action. You can watch all the action on the GT Cup Youtube channel.