+ Barnicoat’s fastest time not enough to deny Paradine’s BMW
+ Innovation take GT4 pole on debut
+ Results: Silverstone 500 Qualifying
Paradine Competition, Darren Leung and Dan Harper picked up where they left off at Silverstone 12 months ago by claiming pole position for British GT’s three-hour showpiece, while Tom Holland and Hadley Simpson topped GT4 qualifying on Innovation Racing’s series debut.
Last year’s winners are unbeaten as a pairing at the 500 and will start as favourites tomorrow when they attempt to claim a record third victory together. Their BMW shares the front row with Optimum’s Morgan Tillbrook and Ben Barnicoat who set fastest time in Q2 – 1m57.214s – to limit Paradine’s combined advantage to 0.638s.
Jarrod Waberski impressed by setting Q2’s second fastest lap, which gave the Barwell Lamborghini he shares with Alex Martin Silver-Am pole and fifth overall.
In GT4, Holland’s heavy lifting in Q1 earned Innovation’s Ginetta a 0.9s advantage over the chasing pack. And the team needed almost all of it to secure P1 when Jack Mitchell’s banzai Q2 time reduced the combined deficit to just 0.032s. The Toro Verde G56 he shares with Luke Shaw was, nevertheless, best placed of the Pro-Am contenders.
More to follow.