{"id":70692,"date":"2013-05-28T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=70692"},"modified":"2013-05-28T22:02:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:02:05","slug":"british-gt-silverstone-500-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2013\/05\/28\/british-gt-silverstone-500-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"British GT: Silverstone 500 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n The fourth round of the British GT took to the track at Silverstone, United Kingdom over the weekend. The three hour race comprised of 48 car entries, the biggest numbers to compete so far this season. The British GT race was held alongside BRSCC Mazda MX5 Trophy, Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT5 challenge, APR VW Racing cup and Cooper Tires British Formula 3 International Series. <\/p>\n Over the last three rounds the Trackspeed team have dominated with their three racing cars, each taking a victory. However with just one hour of the race completed the ultimate disaster happened for the team. Within two laps all three cars had collisions and had to retire from the race. The weirdest collision for the team involved David Ashburn who whilst entering pit lane and looking at his controls misjudged his cars position and collided with the barrier, resulting in the car spinning and losing its rear wheel. This created chaos in the pit lane as the marshals had to remove the wreckage and debris on a live pit lane.<\/p>\n\r\n The current winners of the GT4 championship Zoe Wenham and Declan Jones had to stop off track with just under two hours of the race remaining. This will result in their lead ahead of Steve Chaplin and Tom Wilson in the No. 53 Complete Racing Aston Martin GT4 reduce. However Zoe was able to get back in the car and the team only had the option of chasing as any points as they could.<\/p>\n With half the race completed it was a Ferrari 1-2-3 No 3, No 27 and No 14. However this wouldn\u2019t continue as the Pole position runner crossed the finish line in the No 79 BMW Ecurie Ecosse driven by Oliver Bryant and Marco Attard. Seventeen seconds behind in second place was No 007 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin driven by Adam\/Howard and third position went to 888 Optimum racing BMW Z4 Driven by Brown\/Tandy.<\/p>\n\r\n