+ Result, Free Practice, Silverstone
Hugo Cook and Rob Collard topped the first official times for the new British GT season, setting the fastest Silverstone 500 Free Practice time aboard the #63 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini.
In GT4, Blake Angliss and Revie Lake took the opening honours in Mahiki Racing’s McLaren Artura, narrowly holding off Jack Mitchell and Luke Shaw’s Toro Verde GT Ginetta.
Much of the hard work across the opening session of the weekend was done within the first few minutes as Cook took the wheel of the Lambo and set a blistering 1:57.908s effort that would stand for the entirety of the session.
Others’ efforts to catch him were thwarted by a mid-session red flag called to recover the Rodin Motorsport Ferrari which had spun and stopped at Becketts. While running resumed with just under half of the session remaining, improvements proved scarce.
Kevin Tse and Ben Green were second for 2 Seas, only 0.1s down on top spot, with their reigning champion team-mates Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss third. Ross Gunn and Andrew Howard were fourth for Beechdean Aston Martin, ahead of Alex Martin and Jarrod Waberski’s Silver-Am-leading Barwell Huracan. Despite the off, Rodin’s Cameron Campbell and Joshua Buchan finished sixth with the Ferrari making it five different brands inside the top six.
Angliss and Lake used a similar strategy to head GT4, running clear on their sixth lap and setting a benchmark for the rest to chase. Mitchell brought his Ginetta within 0.029s late in the session but ran out of laps to overcome the Mahiki McLaren. He and Shaw did top the GT4 Pro-Am times though. The Innovation Racing Ginetta shared by Thomas Holland and Hadley Simpson was third ahead of Ian Duggan and Tom Bradshaw in the Toro Verde GT Porsche.
Pre-Qualifying is up next at 12:15.