Snetterton British GT - 16th July

[Trackside]

Anyone other PHers going? Racing, spectating or otherwise...

Got my tickets through this morning and I'm travelling up to Norfolk on Sunday with my brother. Hoping for a decent entry and considerably better weather than the Donington round we went to a few weeks ago!

[Racing Rod]

We will be there, car no: 8, trying very hard to put in a reasonable performance, sounds like the grid could be as high as 28 and the weather should be good as well come and see us, always nice to see a fellow Pistonheader.

Avon Tyres British GT Championship - Snetterton Provisional Entry

1 1 GT2 Scuderia Ecosse Chris Niarchos,Tim Mullen Ferrari F430 GTC
2 57 GT2 Team LNT Tom Kimber-Smith Luke Hines Panoz Esperante GT-LM
3 69 GT2 Eclipse Motorsport Phil Keen Lee Caroline Mosler MT900R
4 77 GT2 Rollcentre Racing Kevin Riley Ian Flux Mosler MT900R
5 18 GT3 Lotus Sport Cadena Paul Whight Chris Randall Lotus Sp/Exige
6 19 GT3 Lotus Sport Cadena Barrie Whight,Gavan Kershaw LotusSp/Exige
7 20 GT3 Lotus Sport Cadena George Mackintosh,Sam Blogg LotusSp/Exige
8 33 GT3 Barwell Motorsport Leo Machitski,Michael Bentwood AM DBRS9
9 45 GT3 Damax Stuart Turvey Aaron Scott Ascari KZ1R
10 66 GT3 Barwell Motorsport Jonathan Cocker Paul Drayson AM DBRS9
11 90 GT3 Damax Richard Stanton Rob Barff Ascari KZ1R
12 3 GTC Trackspeed Andreas Demetriou Ryan Hooker Porsche 911 GT3
13 4 GTC Trackspeed Miles Hulford Matt Harris Porsche 911 GT3
14 5 GTC Trackspeed Jonny Lang Matt Allison Porsche 911 GT3
15 8 GTC Hawthorns Motorsport Rod Barrett Jan Persson Porsche 911 GT3
16 11 GTC Team Aero Keith Ahlers Oliver Bryant Morgan Aero 8
17 12 GTC JMH Phil Burton Adam Wilcox Ferrari 360
18 16 GTC Motorbase Performance Rob Wilson/Gary Eastwood 911 GT3
19 17 GTC RPM Phil Glew Hunter Abbott Porsche 911 GT3
20 28 GTC RSS Performance Graeme Mundy Jamie Smyth Porsche 911 GT3
21 31 GTC Team Parker Racing Bill Cameron Barry Horne Porsche 911 GT3
22 44 GTC Richmond Racing Nick Marsh Richard Hollebon Ginetta G20
23 46 GTC Team Skater Mark Powell Stephen Keating Marcos LM500
24 70 GTC David Dove Racing David Dove Calum Lockie Ferrari 360
25 81 GTC Team Tiger Chris Beighton Jon Finnemore Marcos Mantis
26 83 GTC Bigfish Alastair Davidson Chris Wilson BMW Z3
27 96 GTC RPM Alex Mortimer Bradley Ellis Porsche 911 GT3
28 99 GTC Beechdean M/sport Nigel Greensall,Andrew Howard Ferrari360

[macsport]

29 now Rod - The list was updated last night with Maxspeed Engineering Toyota Supra entered in the Invitation Class.

Be good to see you there Trackspeed, I'll be running around after drivers for quotes and hiding out in the Media Centre.

Don't forget if you are there on Saturday to join us for the Sport Relief Mile (Except Rod and Jan who have come up with some lame excuse - something about being too old - not to do the run!!) on the circuit after track action has finished.

Jeff

[randy]

I will be there. Would be great to have some Pistonheads support.

[Racing Rod]

macsport said:

Don't forget if you are there on Saturday to join us for the Sport Relief Mile (Except Rod and Jan who have come up with some lame excuse - something about being too old - not to do the run!!) on the circuit after track action has finished.

Jeff

Jan and I have said we would do it on a pit bike if that helps

We will see how we feel on the day and if we feel fit enough we'll sponsor one another for a tenner but having just got out of the habit of being back markers, we will insist on a quarter mile head start

[blakbetti]

Racing Rod said:

We will be there, car no: 8, trying very hard to put in a reasonable performance


8 33 GT3 Barwell Motorsport Leo Machitski,Michael Bentwood AM DBRS9

hope one of "our" little babies does u guys proud

[L100NYY]

I will be there too, can't wait and I'm secretly hoping for rain as I prefer the wet races. Sorry guys!

[Racingdude009]

That Panoz looked quick in testing yesterday.

[L100NYY]

Racingdude009 said:

That Panoz looked quick in testing yesterday.

The noise is the thing that really struck me of the panoz at Le Mans!

[Trackside]

I'm looking forward to seeing the Ascaris. Saw them in the (very wet) FIA GT3 race earlier in the year at Silverstone where they were quick but troubled. It'll be interesting to see how they fare against the Porsches, Exiges and Astons.

L100NYY, don't pray for rain please! I seem to recall you were at the Donington round where it hoofed it down pretty much all day. I was gonna come and say hello but I could only see your Jag, sans pilot...

What'll you be in on Sunday?

[L100NYY]

Trackside said:

I'm looking forward to seeing the Ascaris. Saw them in the (very wet) FIA GT3 race earlier in the year at Silverstone where they were quick but troubled. It'll be interesting to see how they fare against the Porsches, Exiges and Astons.

L100NYY, don't pray for rain please! I seem to recall you were at the Donington round where it hoofed it down pretty much all day. I was gonna come and say hello but I could only see your Jag, sans pilot...

What'll you be in on Sunday?

Yeah sorry about that we were nice and dry sitting in the Jag and made a dash for the start/finish straight during the dry spells!

I will be in a new red Elise with white stripes hopefully with the roof on to save myself from getting wet!

[bogie]

just leaving now to Snett - maybe see you there

[Racingdude009]

Great Racing rather hot through

[rude-boy]

What a weekend! Out on top of a tower at Coram both days getting quietly fried!

G/f got a trip round the track on the Saturady afternoon in the Ascari (thanks Ketmit) and some of the racing was top draw. The histerics were poorer for the lack of the Team 44 Aston (where were you boys?) but although the Fezza ran away in both the GT races (including one pit lane to win on the Saturday) there were only a couple of the races which left a little to be desired and the Carterham race at the end of today was only decided on the final corner!

[Trackside]

Cracking day out in the sunshine (although, getting up at 6am and then getting back home around 8.45pm made it a very long day!). Excellent racing as always with this F3/BGT package. VW Cup, FFord and Caterham races were superb. The headline events weren't fantastic but the GT cars are always spectacular in my eyes, especially when they're attacking the Russell Chicane.

Ben, nice to meet you, even if it was at the petrol station on the way home! Maybe next time we'll see each other at the circuit itself. Luurvley car BTW...even it hasn't got aircon

Was too engrossed in the racing to tear myself away for too long to say hi, so, Rod and Randy, how did your races go? From where my brother and I were at Russell it looked quite slippery due to all the rubber and marbles that were deposited.

Anyway, took over 600 pictures in all from the day's races (and the line-up of gorgeous road-going machinery that was parked up around the place) so I may be a tad busy sorting those out for a while! Will post up anything decent ASAP.

[L100NYY]

Trackside said:

Ben, nice to meet you, even if it was at the petrol station on the way home! Maybe next time we'll see each other at the circuit itself. Luurvley car BTW...even it hasn't got aircon

Nice to meet you to young sir, and we were a tad warm on the way home especially when we got stuck in all that traffic on the A11!

The day was absolutely superb, racing in all the classes was as close as you could ever want it to be and the noise of that Panoz really did bring back memories of Le Mans. Pure stuff.

Highlight for me had to be the Caterham's at the end of the day, you can always count on these guys to entertain! +

Edited by L100NYY on Monday 17th July 16:21

[randy]

Trackside said:

Was too engrossed in the racing to tear myself away for too long to say hi, so, Rod and Randy, how did your races go? From where my brother and I were at Russell it looked quite slippery due to all the rubber and marbles that were deposited.

My races were not too good unfortunately. The gearbox mount let go after about three laps in the first race so I resorted to limp home mode and the car gave in soon after handing over. The second race we had clutch problems hindering our pace and then a CV joint let go Still, we were faster than expected and, as qually showed, we had real pace at a power circuit which is good news for us. Promising for the future.

[Racing Rod]

Much the same for us, In race one we had a drive shaft go after 3 laps and in race two, the handling was sooo bad that I went off into the fields on the first lap, lost the splitter,which nevers helps, then played catch up, went off a few more times, stuffed the clutch, and handed over a difficult car to Jan. He had much the same problems but did well to bring her home 9th in class. Overall we had a fun weekend but felt that with the right set up we could have done better, as it is just not possible to be driver error

[ahonen]

Ours, on the other hand, was our best of the year... If it hadn't been for that pesky extra 15 seconds at the pit stop (and a power deficit) we'd have beaten the Panoz. Messers Hines and Kimber-Smith were more than a little surprised to find Phil constantly snapping at their heels.

[mr.man]

Couldn't help grinning at that orange beetle that had ploughed through the maize field at Riches. He was covered in it. Looked like fancy-dress!