COOK SERVES UP TWO GT CUP WINS
With the Mercedes AMG GT3s of Hugo Cook and Ian Loggie both sliding off on a fluid spillage on the second lap of the opening GT Cup race, Morgan Tillbrook’s McLaren 720S was in charge.
Pulling well clear after three safety car laps, Tillbrook was then given a post-race penalty for earlier contact with Mike Price’s Mercedes. It dropped him to fourth and that eventually handed victory to Simon Orange’s McLaren, ahead of
Ian Campbell’s similar car and the recovering Price.
Cook and Tillbrook made an early escape in race two, with
Orange demoting Campbell from third on lap five. Cook was the last to make his stop but, after initially retaining his lead, he had to pit again after missing the window.
Marcus Clutton/Tillbrook took the win, with Callum Macleod/ Price taking second from Cook with four laps remaining, while 2022 champions Michael O’Brien and Orange were fourth.
Cook had the lead from the start of race three but overshot the Wilson Hairpin. He managed to hold onto second and closed the gap to Tillbrook’s lead before snatching victory into Murrays a lap from home.
Loggie and Orange were third and fourth throughout.
There was a second win for Cook in the final race. He led from start to finish. Tillbrook had been second until the stops but had dropped to third behind O’Brien and Orange on rejoining while Price rounded off the top four.
Reece Jones finally got the better of Dale Gent to win the first Pickup race with Matt Simpson snatching third from Dean Tompkins on the last lap.
With both Gent and Mark
Willis picking up punctures in race two, they tumbled down the order. Championship leader George Turiccki lost out too, as Simpson ousted Allen
Cooper exiting Murrays a lap from home for the win.
With Willis retiring with a broken fuel rail, Jones won race three as Turiccki defended hard to try and retain second. Tompkins, Gent and Tom Hutchins finally got by on the last lap.
There was a double win in the Tiedeman Trophy for George Line’s Dallara. Robbie Watts closed mid race one, but then had to focus on retaining second from the closing Samuel Harrison.
Watts led the second race, but couldn’t hold off Line’s challenge, as he passed at three-quarters’ distance and took the spoils with Harrison a lonely third.
Henry Riley’s double win made him the Production GTi Champion. James Howlison was in second from lap two as James Colbourne fell back, leaving
Chris Webb in third.
It was a second lights-to-flag win for Riley in race two with Webb a clear second from Ryan Sayer.
Jas Sapra had led the Snetterton Saloons from the start but onto the last lap his BMW coasted to a halt and Karl Cattliff’s similar took victory, from Mark Mavers Seat and Stephen Pearson’s BMW.
Johnathan Barnett’s BMW M3 and Edd Giddings’ Z4 were both double winners too, in Racing Saloons and Z Cars respectively.