Howard/Adam survive penalty scare to win second race
A late drive-through penalty for a pitlane violation wasn't enough to stop Andrew Howard and Jonathan Adam dominating the second British GT race at Oulton Park in their Beechdean Motorsport Aston Martin Vantage.







After taking over from Adam in the mid-race driver changes, Howard had a lead of 12 seconds when he, along with his two closest pursuers Lee Mowle and Liam Griffin, were handed drive-through penalties for completing their stops in less than the minimum allotted time.
Howard nonetheless resumed the race in a comfortable lead, with Steve Tandy’s Ginetta G55 and the BMW Z4 of reigning champion Marco Attard moving up to second and third ahead of Griffin’s Aston Martin and the Ferrari 458 of Gary Eastwood, whose team-mate Adam Carroll led prior to the stops.
Carroll had taken the lead at around one-third distance after passing Adam at Old Hall, but a 15-second success penalty for his race one win served to shuffle the FF Corse car down the order when Eastwood took the helm.
Eastwood then lost a further position on the final lap of the race to Mowle, as Tandy narrowly hung on for second place from Attard and Griffin, who were split by just a tenth of a second at the line.
Phil Keen had been running third behind Carroll and Griffin in the Barwell-run BMW Z4 prior to the stops, but was forced to retire after getting tangled up with the lapped Mercedes SLS of Godfrey Jones.
Osman Yusuf and Gavan Kershaw took victory in the GT4 class, the duo building up a lead of 16 seconds over the Beechdean Aston Martin of Jamie Chadwick and Ross Gunn.
Pos | Driver | Team/Car | Time/Gap |
1 | Andrew Howard Jonathan Adam |
Beechdean AMR Aston Martin |
1h01:03.228 |
2 | Steve Tandy Mike Simpson |
Team LNT Ginetta |
12.829 |
3 | Marco Attard Alexander Sims |
Barwell/Ecurie Ecosse BMW |
13.966 |
4 | Liam Griffin Rory Butcher |
Oman Racing Team Aston Martin |
14.079 |
5 | Lee Mowle Joe Osborne |
Triple 8 BMW |
19.027 |
6 | Gary Eastwood Adam Carroll |
FF Corse Ferrari |
40.009 |
7 | Mark Farmer Jon Barnes |
22GT Racing Aston Martin |
42.381 |
8 | A.Mackinnon Lewis Plato |
RAM Racing Mercedes |
42.706 |
9 | Andrew Watson Ross Wylie |
Von Ryan Racing McLaren |
49.252 |
10 | Phil Dryburgh Mat Jackson |
Oman Racing Team Aston Martin |
1'11.550 |
11 | Hector Lester Benny Simonsen |
Rosso Verde Ferrari |
2 Laps |
12 | Osman Yusuf Gavan Kershaw |
Issy Racing Lotus/Toyota |
2 Laps |
13 | Jamie Chadwick Ross Gunn |
Beechdean AMR Aston Martin |
2 Laps |
14 | Graham Johnson Mike Robinson |
Professional Motorsport World Expo/Optimum Ginetta/Ford |
2 Laps |
15 | Paul McNeilly Jamie Stanley |
Fox Motorsport Ginetta/Ford |
2 Laps |
16 | David Pattison Luke Davenport |
Tolman Motorsport Ginetta/Ford |
2 Laps |
17 | Terry Langley Mike Hart |
Quantamatic Racing Aston Martin |
2 Laps |
18 | Adrian Barwick Ellis Bradley |
Twisted Team Parker Ginetta/Ford |
3 Laps |
19 | Chris Webster James Harrison |
Academy Motorsport Aston Martin |
3 Laps |
20 | Kieran Griffin Jake Giddings |
JWB Motorsport Aston Martin |
3 Laps |
21 | Tim Eakin Jamie Wall |
Stratton/UltraTek Racing Lotus/Toyota |
3 Laps |
22 | R.Taffinder Martin Plowman |
Stratton/UltraTek Racing Lotus/Toyota |
4 Laps |
23 | A.Schjerpen James Birch |
Century Motorsport Ginetta/Ford |
5 Laps |
24 | Chloe Edwards Jade Edwards |
Stratton/UltraTek Racing Aston Martin |
6 Laps |
25 | Andrew Jarman Jody Fannin |
TF Sport Aston Martin |
7 Laps |
26 | Ahmad Al Harthy Daniel Lloyd |
Oman Racing Team Aston Martin |
10 Laps |
27 | Willie Moore D.Strandberg |
Academy Motorsport Aston Martin |
11 Laps |
28 | Richard Williams Stefan Hodgetts |
GPRM Toyota |
19 Laps |
Retirements | |||
Tom Oliphant Rick Parfitt |
Team LNT Ginetta |
Not classified | |
Jon Minshaw Philip Keen |
Barwell/Team Russia with Demon Tweeks BMW |
Not classified | |
David Jones Godfrey Jones |
Preci-Spark Mercedes |
Not classified | |
Graham Coomes Shaun Hollamby |
AmD Tuning.com Porsche |
Not classified |

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