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British GT

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.

Jamie Klein

Edited: Jul 13, 2015, 1:27 PM

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

#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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