GT Battle Round 2 Results

D1GB

Held at Silverstone on June 17th, the event managed to push forward the drifters most capable of high speed drift to equally match the speeds witnessed when viewing the Japanese last year. Speeds were recorded around the 95mph mark at the first entry point as the cars entered the Brooklands corner and only 6 inches from the wall! As the practice sessions moved on more drivers got comfortable with the high pace and began to amaze the crowds with their speed, smoke and vast skill. Although managing to get into the top 16, Round 1's winner and current Championship leader Brett Castle was pipped to the premier spot by Phil Morrison who went on to win the event outright and claim a superb victory, the first ever 1st place for Morrison who was comforted with cheers and applause from the spectators. Morrisons' victory now gives him a huge boost to challenge Castle for the Championship and a well deserved win in Round 2.

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Leaderboard

Brett Castle 34 Points Nissan 200SX S14

Phil Morrison 28 Points Nissan 200SX S14 – Works Driftworks car

Darren McNamara 19 Points Toyota AE86

Mark Luney 18 Points Nissan Skyline R32 GTR ( RWD )

Ralph Crampton 17 Points Nissan 350Z – Works SVA Imports car

James Hudson 17 Points Nissan Skyline R32 GTS

Damien Mulvey 16 Points Nissan S13

Tim Marshall 15 Points Nissan 350Z – Works Sumo Power car

Maciej Polody 14 Points Nissan 200SX

Paul Vlasblom 13 Points BMW E36

Ben Broke Smith 10 Points Nissan Skyline R32 GTS

Glen Maher 8 Points Nissan S13

Declan Hicks 6 Points Toyota Soarer

Niall Gunn 6 Points Nissan S13

Mat Steele 3 Points Nissan 200SX S14

Ian Coyne 3 Points Nissan S13

Mike Deane 2 Points Nissan S13

Stephen Evans 1 Point Nissan Skyline R32 GTS

Steven Shine 1 Point Nissan S13

Mike Murphy 1 Point Nissan S13

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Andy Barnes, D1GB Championship Co-ordinator said ‘The Championship is now taking shape and the competitors are finding the new and exciting tactics required to keep ahead in the twin drift battles. We can expect to see some revisions of vehicles as competitors square up to their rivals in terms of power and chassis modification. The first two events have shown that car setup is crucial to winning, combined with a good driver they will see the results. Also new to the UK was the anticipated crowd excitement that the events are now proving to have, with cheers and appreciation coming over the fence from the revved up spectators, giving the extra boost to the drivers to push to the limits to win over not only the judges but also the crowds. ‘

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Full results here :

http://d1gb.co.uk/round_2%20results.asp

Time Attack

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Once more the countries finest tuned cars made their way to GT Battle for Round 2 of the Series. Entrant numbers for the event were oversubscribed giving a full and mixed grid for the second chance for the Pro and Club Challenge class' to do battle once more to see who is quickest around the National Circuit at Silverstone. This Round saw a new entry in the Pro class from the Ford Cosorth of Steve Scott, who was laying down some great times to better the Japanese cars and on paper there would seem to be a favourite to take the fastest lap following on from Rockingham and the efforts made by the Litchfield/Powerstation Subaru however stepping up the pace and making further changes to their car, the RC Developments Evo 6, driven by Clive Seddon managed to set some blistering laps, narrowly beating fellow competitor and rival tuner Norris Designs and their Evo 9 by just a few hundreths of a second in the final Time Attack session to go on to take the days fastest lap in the finals and pounding down a 1.02.815 lap on the National Circuit. The Club Challenge also saw the entry of the RK Tuning Skyline, driven by Darren Bly who went on to show that the sprint friendly GTR could use the advantage of its power on the long straights at Silverstone to take the win just ahead of the GTR Registers own Peter Everett in his R33 GTR Skyline. Darren's time even equalled some of the Pro cars, laying down a lap time in the finals of 1.04.750 to take the overall fastest lap.

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Time Attack Tuner Class Times

Clive Seddon - RC Developments - Evo 6 - 1:02.815

Simon Norris - Norris Designs - Evo 9 - 1:02.864

Steve Scott - Escort Cosworth - 1:03.481

Phil Keen - Litchfield Impreza - 1:03.655

Adrian Smith - Fensport - Toyota Celica - 1:04.107

John Curistan - East Coast Customs Impreza - 1:04.463

David Harrison - Abbey Motorsport - R32 Skyline - 1:04.820

Robbie Thornton - Trackday Plus - R32 Skyline - 1:06.563

Rob Barnes - Sumo Power - Evo 8 - 1:08.58

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Time Attack Club Challenge Times

Darren Bly - Nissan Skyline R32GTR 1:04.750

Peter Everett - Nissan Skyline R33GTR - 1:05.443

Nigel Wilson - Mitsubishi Evo 3 - 1:06.786

Steve Fitpatrick - Escort Cosworth - 1:08.721

Maxim Taylor - Mazda RX7 - 1:09.620

Nadine Geary - Dodge Viper - 1:09.776

Jez Horsham - Nissan S13 200sx - 1:10.163

Neil Wrenn - Subaru Impreza WRX - 1:10.461

Tony Pearman - Lotus Elise - 1:10.777

Terry Buckel - Subaru Impreza STi RA5 - 1:10.824

Thomas Farnham - Nissan 200SX S14 - 1:10975

Dixon Cheng - Honda DC2 Integra - 1:12.612

Simon Miskelly - Honda DC5 Integra - 1:13.273

Shaun Fennings - Imprezza Type25C - 1:14.561

Paul West - Honda EP3 Civic Type R- 1:16.313

Shaun Harvey - P1 Subaru Impreza - 1:25.055

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Andy Barnes commented on Time Attack : ‘ Time Attack and its format is now being understood and is receiving good reception from the competitors. The Club Challenge area of the Series is proving popular to those who wish to compete alongside the big guns of the industry. From using the Internationally recognised circuit at Silverstone, the Pro class now have a benchmark time to aim for when we come back to Silverstone for Round 4 in August with a pattern emerging of some strong competition between Norris Designs and RC Developments, both worthy contenders to prove who is the best tuner of Evo’s in the UK

More Pics here :

http://www.timeattack.co.uk/round2_results.asp

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The Next GT Battle Event is:

Knockhill Race Circuit this Saturday

Followed by

Round 4 Silverstone Aug 20th

cheers

Lex