Autosport – 01 August 2019

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Harrison (93), Dibden (94)

and Fores (90) each took a

Monoposto F3 win

Christoforou and Carroll won

after pitting for wet tyres

following early rotation

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Chamberlain to drive on his mirrors

in the final eight minutes of the race,

only missing out on victory by 0.379s

at the chequered flag.

“We were as much as 200bhp down on

the straights,” said Chamberlain and he

admitted that “we had considered retiring”.

Chamberlain did not compete in

the final race of the weekend, won in

dominant fashion by John Seale and Jamie

Stanley in a Lamborghini Huracan, which

required repairing after Seale aquaplaned

into the Bentley Straight barriers during

Saturday practice.

Seale started the last race from pole

but faced an attack from Jennings on

the inside at Riches on the opening lap.

Instead of completing the move, Jennings

spun his car in front of the oncoming

field and was narrowly avoided.

His recovery drive was blunted by a 5s

stop-go penalty for failing to observe

the correct pitstop time, which dropped

him from second to finish fourth.

Had it not been for a pair of team

members travelling to Spa overnight

to pick up throttle components from

the Spa 24 Hours squad, Jennings would

not have even been able to compete

on account of the technical issues in

practice that curtailed his Saturday.

Shane Stoney has now won seven

from a possible eight Radical SR1 Cup

races in 2019 having clinched another

double win at Snetterton.

In the opening race, Stoney faced

considerable pressure from second-placed

Will Hunt in the early exchanges before

Hunt’s white-liveried SR1 developed an

oil temperature issue that forced him

into retirement after five minutes.

In the second race, rain led to rapidly

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A spin on the formation lap inspired Laki

Christoforou and Adam Carroll to victory

in the first pitstop race of the GT Cup

weekend at Snetterton.

Drizzle was the wildcard when the GT

Cup field prepared for its first 50-minute

race. Christoforou had finished fourth

in the opening sprint race and, starting

the endurance race from the same

position, he looped his Ferrari 488 in the

deteriorating conditions on the formation

lap, dropping to the back of the field.

With grip evidently at a premium,

Christoforou gambled by diving into

the pits for wet tyres while the rest

of the field took the green flag.

As the rain intensified, all slick tyre

starters were forced into the pits just

15 minutes into the race and prior to the

mandatory pitstop window, meaning

a charging Christoforou found himself

in a comfortable lead. Carroll’s task

was simply to close out the race, as he

crossed the line to win by 1m45s from

Tom Webb’s Lamborghini Huracan.

Richard Chamberlain had seized victory

in the first sprint race of the weekend and

matched the result in Sunday’s sprint,

despite his distinctive orange Porsche

935 developing power unit gremlins.

Shamus Jennings (Porsche 911) forced

Formation lap

spin key to

Ferrari’s win