Ladell just holds points lead
GINETTA GT4 SUPERCUP
Twenty points – that was all that separated Suffolk pair Charlie Ladell and Carl Boardley at the top of the Ginetta GT4 Supercup standings heading into Rockingham. And that was all that separated them as the trucks rolled out of Corby too.
Losing a win for starting too far forwards in his grid slot was not the way Ladell wanted his race two to go.
The 22-year old made the most of a storming start as team-mate Tom Roche, fresh from cruising to his second win of the season in race one, got a poor getaway as a result of an error with the clutch.
Ladell opened up a healthy threesecond lead, before being told on lap eight that he had been handed a 10s time penalty for the infringement.
Boardley didn’t need a second invitation. Having swept past Harry King, he duly took the win once Ladell’s penalty was factored in and dropped the Rob Boston Racing man to fourth.
“We needed that – a lift for myself and the team,” Boardley reflected, after a tough weekend last time out at Snetterton that yielded a single podium.
But that momentum was shortlived for Boardley, as King continued his storming run of form to take his season’s fourth victory in the finale.