Team Trimite Brookspeed's Jon Barnes and James Gornall moved a step closer to the 2008 Avon Tyres British GT Championship by winning round eleven at Brands Hatch on Saturday.

Barnes and Gornall eventually took the laurels in their Dodge Viper by 7.580 seconds, while Hector Lester and Allan Simonsen, who remain their only challengers with three races remaining, were second, closely followed by Oliver Bryant and Steve Clark.

However, the day belonged to Matt Nicol-Jones and Stewart Linn who finished third in class to become the inaugural Avon Tyres British GT4 champions.

At the start, Paddy Shovlin led the British GT grid down to Paddock Hill for the first time, while third placed Michael Meadows dived down the inside of James Gornall's Viper to move into second on the run into Druids.

Ben de Zille Butler also got a demon start to move up two places by the second corner.

However before the end of the opening lap Gornall had regained the place from Meadows and Steve Clark had moved back ahead of de Zille Butler both using the superior straight line speed of the V10 Viper on the Grand Prix loop.

Nick Foster lost out to Jeremy Metcalfe at the opening lap but then things got worse as a spin at Surtees dropped him down the order. Then on the next lap Foster pulled off the track at Graham Hill Bend in a cloud of smoke and the marshal's promptly extinguished a fire in the black RPM Viper.

The leading Ferrari of Shovlin was now coming under pressure from Gornall's Viper and on lap four the Viper got a good run out of Clearways to get alongside the #15 Ferrari into Paddock Hill and take the lead into Druids, with Michael Meadows following Gornall through to demote his CRS team-mate a further place on the run into Graham Hill.

However Shovlin wasn't quite finished and he continued to keep pace with the leaders, setting the fastest lap of the race so far on Lap 5.

In GT4 Matt Nicol-Jones was holding off the challenge of Nigel Moore in the GT4 Class and on lap 8 the Team RPM Ginetta was stuck to the rear bumper of the leading IMS Motorsport Ginetta. Nicol-Jones, with his sight firmly set on the GT4 title let Moore into the lead on the Cooper Straight and then continued to dog his every move for the next few laps.