By
Johan Laubscher
The British GT Championship headed to Brands Hatch for round five this
weekend. Three Audis were on the grid, with good results for United Autosports.
There was a new yet familiar Audi presence at Brands Hatch, but
the first two teams were the regular British GT runners of United Autosports
with their Audi R8 LMS ultra along with the Audi R8 LMS entry from Blendini
Motorsport. The third Audi entry had a familiar driver line-up, but was represented
by a new team. M-Sport had previously run the #10 Audi R8 LMS ultra driven by
Rembert Berg and Warren Hughes. The M-Sport team will now be focussing their
efforts on the test and development program for the new Bentley Continental
GT3, thus WRT has been selected to run the Berg / Hughes #5 R8 LMS ultra for
the remainder of the season.
During qualifying none of the Audis featured within the top ten,
the highest R8 LMS ultra was the United Autosports car in twelfth. The
race itself was a two-hour endurance race. The WRT Audi faced early problems
and this cost them a number of laps, from which they recovered to ultimately finish
in fourteenth place. The Blendini R8 LMS had a good run, but unfortunately they
also dropped back.
At the front the United Autosports Audi R8 LMS ultra held its own
outside of the top ten and then penetrated into it in the latter half of the race. Matt
Bell was involved in a four-way battle for second position. By the end of the
two hour race the #25 Audi came home as the highest placed Audi in sixth position.
Round six of the British GT was won by the #007 Aston Martin from
Beechdean AMR. The Brands Hatch weekend results can be seen HERE.
The British GT Championship will now head to the Netherlands for
round six, which will be hosted at Zandvoort in September.
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