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Trackspeed Score a Double at Rockingham
by Chris Hall on July 20th, 2010
Taking their first win of the 2010 British GT Championship, Trackspeed’s David Ashburn and Glynn Geddie capitalised on a black flag, waved for the Rollcentre Mosler after a pit-stop infringement, to sail home to the chequered flag at Rockingham Motorspeedway. Starting the weekend’s first race under the stewardship of David Ashburn, the 997 GT3RSR had little to offer the Mosler of Gregor Fiskin, who streaked away into an early lead in the one hour race. By the time the pit stop window had opened, the Rollcentre MT900 had established a gap of over four seconds on Ashburn and looked set to cruise to a comfortable victory. However, after completing a swift driver change, race officials called the Mosler in for a stop-go penalty for failing to wait in their box for 45 seconds; MTech’s Matt Griffin and Chad Racing’s Dan Brown were also called into pit lane for the same infraction.
The Rollcentre Mosler led Race One until a stop-go penalty for a pit-stop infraction delayed its drivers.
With driving duties handed over to Glynn Geddie, Trackspeed’s Porsche was handed the lead and eventual victory to secure the team’s first ever win in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship. That said, the 997RSR finished the 42-lap race very tentatively, with Geddie nursing the car home to save on fuel.
Despite the penalty, the Rollcentre Mosler marked its return to the British GT with a podium second. Once Fiskin had handed the MT900 to former Le Mans driver Martin Short, their lead was over seven seconds before serving their inevitable penalty. When Short returned to the action, the Mosler had dropped to a comfortable and unchallenged second position.
Philip Walker and Alex Mortimer collected a poignant podium at Rockingham in the first race of the weekend, clawing their way through the field after starting the hour-long race in eighth position. The Team RPM Ford GT, making its first appearance in the Championship following the death of team principle Robin Mortimer, left it until the closing minutes to make passes on Aaron Scott in the GT3 Racing Viper and the Chad Racing Ferrari F430 Scuderia of Tom Ferrier to capture third.
Overcoming their stop-go penalty, Duncan Cameron and Matt Griffin brought the MTech Ferrari home for a top five finish, ahead of the recently upgraded Chad Racing F430 Ferrari of Juan Garriz and Jose Balbiani.
Race Two
In the second Avon Tyres British GT race of the weekend, Geddie and Ashburn made it a clean sweep for the Porsche team, with a second win on the Rockingham ‘roval’. Starting the one-hour race in pole position, Geddie and Adam Wilcox’s Predator CCTV Ferrari made contact as the green flagged waved, causing the Scotsman to yield the top slot to MTech’s Griffin. For the ensuing 30 minutes, the train of Griffin’s Ferrari, Geddie’s Porsche, Mortimer’s Ford GT and Short’s Mosler ran bumper to bumper in a fight for the leading spots. Unfortunately, a collision between Mortimer and Short 19 laps into the race sent the Team RPM Ford GT spinning off the circuit at Yedwood Corner. This resulted in retirement for Mortimer and Walker and an extended pit-stop for the Rollcentre MT900 which caused the car to finish several laps down.
Race Two saw bumper-to-bumper racing early on, but the Trackspeed Porsche eventually took the top spot.
Heading to pit road first, Geddie handed over driving duties to Ashburn, whilst Griffin continued to log fast laps in the hope of handing over the F430 Scuderia to Duncan Cameron with a healthy lead. However, the MTech Ferrari was struggling for grip as its tyres aged, and by the time Griffin and Cameron had swapped roles, the Trackspeed Porsche had leap-frogged them into the lead by seven seconds. From there, Ashburn cruised the 997 GT3RSR to the chequered flag, unchallenged and untroubled, to make it a clean sweep, which fired him to the top of the Championship standings.
With the field fragmented following the scheduled pit-stops, Cameron brought the MTech Ferrari home for a podium, 27 seconds ahead of Craig Wilkins and Aaron Scott’s Viper. Despite struggling through the tricky complex sections of Rockingham in the GT3 Racing Competition Coupe, Wilkins put on a display of defensive driving to hold off the constant harassment of Chris Hyman in the Chad Racing Ferrari and claim the team’s first podium finish of the season.
Following the Rockingham double, Ashburn now leads the Avon Tyres British GT Championship on 62 points, six over Griffin and Cameron. Due to engine problems, the Jones Brothers failed to race this weekend, dropping the Team Preci Sparc duo down the standings. Gladly filling in the Ascari drivers’ slots, Geddie occupies third in the championship on 26 points, just three marks ahead of Phil Burton and Adam Wilcox.