2 Seas eye British GT titles

TDT | Manama            

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Bahraini-British motor racing team 2 Seas Motorsport have their eyes set on clinching this season’s titles—with a race to spare—in the Intelligent Money British GT Championship. The series heads into the 2023 campaign’s penultimate round this weekend at Brands Hatch Circuit in the UK.

2 Seas have a significant lead in both standings for the GT3 Teams Championship and the GT3 Drivers Championship. In the teams’ battle for the crown, 2 Seas now have an almost unassailable lead with 241 points—more than double the total of their closest challengers from Barwell Motorsport who are on 117.5 points.

Barwell can only overturn their 123.5-point deficit by finishing first and second at the final two events. Century Motorsport are third on 111.5 points. In the drivers’ title race, the pair of James Cottingham and Jonny Adam have 139.5 points apiece.

Their chief rivals are Century’s Darren Leung and Dan Harper, who are on 111.5 points each. 2 Seas’ Ian Loggie is in solo third with 101.5 points. 2 Seas, co-owned by His Highness Shaikh Isa bin Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, have won four of the seven races so far this season.

Cottingham and Adam claimed three of those triumphs, including at Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal in the previous meeting, Oulton Park in round one and at Donington Park in round four.

Loggie and then-teammate Jules Gounon triumphed the other time in the championship’s second round, also at Oulton Park. In their Algarve triumph, Adam equalled the British GT all-time wins mark, claiming his 19th win and drawing level with fellow-Briton Phil Keen, who was competing with Loggie that weekend.

The Cottingham-Adam pair will be competing this weekend in 2 Seas’ #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo while Loggie will return to his partnership with Gounon in the team’s #1 car. Qualifying will take place tomorrow, to be followed by the two-hour race on Sunday, scheduled for a 3.30pm start, Bahrain time.

In between rounds, 2 Seas have been putting in the miles, testing, and running through different programmes at Donington. Following Brands Hatch, the championship will head to Donington for the season-finale on October 21 and 22.