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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.

#007 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin Vantage GT3: Andrew Howard, Jonny Adam

#007 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin Vantage GT3: Andrew Howard, Jonny Adam

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#007 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin: Andrew Howard, Jonny Adam
#888 Triple Eight Racing BMW Z4 GT3: Lee Mowle, Joe Osborne
#18 FF Corse Ferrari 458: Adam Carroll, Gary Eastwood
#63 Team Russia BMW Z4 GT3: Jon Minshaw, Phil Keen
#77 Issy Racing Lotus Evora GT4: Oz Yusuf, Gavan Kershaw

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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