2 Seas on pole for British GT penultimate round

TDT | Manama    

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Bahraini-British motor racing team 2 Seas Motorsport captured pole position yesterday for the eighth and penultimate round of the Intelligent Money British GT Championship 2023, being held this weekend at Brands Hatch circuit in the UK.

The 2 Seas pair of James Cottingham and Jonny Adam, driving the team’s #4 Mercedes AMG-GT3 Evo challenger, clocked a best time of two minutes 48.144 seconds to secure first place on the starting grid.

They beat Century Motorsport’s Darren Leung and Dan Harper by 0.375 seconds to the top of the GT3 combined timesheet, while Barwell Motorsport and Beechdean Motorsport Ltd will start the race from the second row.

2 Seas’ #1 car, driven by Ian Loggie and James Gounon, qualified fifth for today’s race with a best lap of 2:48.926.

Today’s two-hour race is scheduled for a 3.30pm start, Bahrain time. Heading into the season’s penultimate meeting, 2 Seas hold a significant lead in both the GT3 Teams Championship and the GT3 Drivers Championship standings.

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.

In the drivers’ title race, Cottingham and Adam have 139.5 points apiece.

Their chief rivals are Leung and Harper, who are on 111.5 points each.

2 Seas’ 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 round, 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.