{"id":69361,"date":"2013-05-07T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=69361"},"modified":"2013-05-06T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T21:09:46","slug":"british-gt-rockingham-race-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2013\/05\/07\/british-gt-rockingham-race-results\/","title":{"rendered":"British GT: Rockingham Race Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n The second round of the British GT took place on Sunday 5th-Monday 6th May at Rockingham. After qualifying on Saturday Trackspeed Racing had taken 1-2-3 on the starting grid for the two hour race.<\/p>\n No 23 Mclaren tried to get into the lead and dropped six places as he came off track. No 31 Ashburn lead ahead of No 33 Keene at the end of lap one and the safety car headed out on track after several cars collided. The safety car stayed out on track for six laps, once it had exited the track the No 33 Trackspeed racing Porsche 997 gained the lead ahead of No 31 Trackspeed David Ashburn. <\/p>\n With thirty minutes passed in the race No 33 Keen had a lead of over 7 seconds infront of No 32 Trackspeed Porsche driven by Fisken in second and No 6 Aston Martin driven by Gaw in third. The no 27 Vita4one Ferrari driven by Palmer went off track and out of the race. <\/p>\n\r\n The teams could pit with one hour 10 minutes of the race remaining and a mandatory two minute stop time. At this point the top six runners were No 33 Keen in first, No 32 Fisken in second, No 6 Gaw in third, No 15 Webb in Fourth, No 007 Howard in fifth, No 24 Blundell in sixth.<\/p>\n Once all teams had completed their pit stops the safety car went out on track so that the recovery of a car off track could take place. No 33 still lead ahead of No 32 and No 6 in third at midway point behind the safety car. Once the safety car had returned back to the pits the lead changed to Westbrook in No 32 and pulled a 4.7 second lead ahead of No 33. No 6 was in third but due to overtaking before the safety car had left the track he suffered a 10 second stop and go penalty. No 6 re-entered the track and joined in fourteenth position. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n No 31 and No 15 were forced to retire with just over thirty minutes left. No 32 lead the race ahead of No 33 and No 10 with thirty seven minutes remaining. <\/p>\n One of the first to pit was the Barwell Motorsport Aston Martin driven by Mark Poole and Richard Abra. Prior to the race there were many positive feelings around Abra and many viewing him as a racer to watch throughout the season. Abra who was in sixth position came off track and after dropping down the field, due to the excursion he was forced to pit and after his team spent fifteen minutes investigating he retired due to a brake issue. Also retiring was the No 33 Trackspeed Porsche.<\/p>\n Abra said on twitter \u201cCould have been on the podium today but we had a brake failure which meant we had to retire the car, absolutely gutted. @britishgt #racing\u201d<\/p>\n