Double podium for 2 Seas

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The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com     

Bahraini-British motor racing team 2 Seas Motorsport claimed a double podium yesterday in the sixth round of the 2023 Intelligent Money British GT Championship, held at Snetterton Circuit in Norfolk, the UK.

The pair of James Cottingham and Jonny Adam in 2 Seas’ #4 Mercedes AMG-GT3 Evo challenger finished as runners-up in what was the second 60-minute sprint race of the weekend. Meanwhile, teammates Ian Loggie and Jules Gounon in 2 Seas’ #1 car were right behind them in third.

The two 2 Seas cars also had a strong performance in the fifth round, held earlier in the day yesterday, with both crews finishing in the points in sixth and seventh place, respectively.

The Snetterton event was the last of just two meetings in this British GT season featuring two races. The other was at Oulton Park in Cheshire, where the campaign’s opening two rounds took place.

In the second race of the day yesterday, it was a hotly contested finish with both 2 Seas crews amongst a leading group of four battling bumper to bumper over the last two laps.

At the finish line, the Ram Racing tandem of John Ferguson and Raffaele Marciello finished just inches ahead of Cottingham and Adam to claim the win by a mere 0.042 seconds.

Loggie and Gounon followed not far behind but not after a tough fight with Orange Racing Team by JMH, shared by Simon Orange and Michael O’Brien.

They had an incident over the final corners that saw both cars go off the track, but Loggie and Gounon were able to get ahead of their rivals at the finish.

They were classified 0.422s from first. In yesterday’s earlier race, Cottingham and Adam were classified 30.430 seconds behind winners Shaun Balfe and Sandy Mitchell of Barwell Motorsport.

They had started from sixth on the grid. Loggie and Gounon, starting from 11th, finished 31.924s from the victors for a solid seventh place. The 2023 British GT campaign features nine rounds in all.

Following this weekend’s action, the series now heads for Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal, for its only round outside of the UK on July 22 and 23.

The championship will then race at Brands Hatch on September 9 and 10, and then at Donington Park again for the season-finale on October 21 and 22.