For lap after lap Wilkins and Bentwood were separated by less than half a second, but Wilkins would not yield his lead to the vastly more experienced Aston Martin driver. Michael Meadows caught and passed David Jones for fifth but on the next lap Jones repaid the compliment to regain the place. It took another four laps before Meadows could re-pass the Ascari at Maggotts and make the move stick. Hines and Redwood were also nose to tail across the line with the Ferrari driver defending the final podium position rigorously.

On lap 28 Bentwood finally got his reward for his dogged determination to take the lead as Wilkins succumbed to the pressure and on the same lap Nigel Redwood moved ahead of Luke Hines, pushing the Ferrari down to fourth. Craig Wilkins then had a spin at Brooklands dropping the Viper behind Redwood and Hines only to regain a podium place two laps later as Redwood ran wide at Becketts, the Viper spinning and losing three places before the end of the lap.

All of this chopping and changing allowed Michael Bentwood to open up a gap to his rivals and by lap 32 he was 3.8 seconds ahead of Hines as Meadows moved ahead of Wilkins. Craig Wilkins decided his work was done and dived into the pits to hand over to Aaron Scott. Michael Cullen's Ferrari became the latest casualty as the Irishman pulled off at Abbey with a broken gearbox. David Jones' race came to an abrupt end when flames were seen from the engine bay and the Preci Spark Ascari pulled off at Becketts into retirement. However Team Modena Lamborghini of Piers Johnson spun on some oil dropped by the Ascari and the Gallardo was launched into the barriers at Becketts. Johnson was alright, which was more than could be said for his car.

On lap 40 the clock counted down to 60 minutes of the two-hour race run and Michael Meadows, Michael Bentwood and James Gornall all came into the pits. Bentwood didn't have a driver to hand over after Tom Alexander was called away for family reasons and Bentwood was unable to secure the services of another driver in time. So Michael Bentwood got back into the Aston Martin to rejoin the battle knowing full well he would have to retire after 90 minutes because this was the maximum time a driver could spend in the car according to the British GT regulations. However Bentwood was determined to be at the front of the field when this happened to demonstrate his and the 22GTRacing Aston Martin's capabilities.

Meanwhile the Team Trimte Brookspeed pit-stop wasn't going to plan as the damaged bodywork from the earlier accident had started to come loose and then the cockpit fire extinguisher went off, ending the team's chances of taking the British GT Team title.

As the pitstops were all completed it was Michael Bentwood in the lead, twelve seconds ahead of Jeremy Metcalfe now at the wheel of the #16 CRS Ferrari, who was just 0.3 seconds ahead of James Sutton in the #14 CRS Ferrari. Nick Foster was eight seconds behind Sutton in the RPM Viper and Aaron Scott was a further fifteen seconds further back. On lap 50 Michael Bentwood brought the Aston Martin into the pits and drove straight into the team's garage after leading for 20 of the 50 laps run to that point.

Metcalfe was now in the lead of the race with Sutton less than a second behind as Foster was being reeled in by Scott, the ABG Viper catching the RPM Viper by 1.5 seconds per lap. Jeremy Metcalfe and James Sutton looked as if they were going to be taking a CRS 1-2 at Silverstone when the team were handed a 10 second stop go penalty for refuelling the cars with the doors open, which is against the regulations. On lap 62 the two Ferrari's were called in by the team but Metcalfe was given the call late and in the effort to gain the pit road he spun across the grass and the gravel and he was forced to follow James Sutton into the pitlane and then follow him out onto the track, the two now in third and fourth respectively. Nick Foster was now in the lead of the race with Aaron Scott closing down the RPM Viper's lead.

On lap 65 Scott went into the lead with a move on Foster at Brooklands as Adam Wilcox came into the pits to retire the VRS Motor Finance Ferrari from sixth place. Gavan Kershaw was also forced to retire the Cadena Aston Martin as the car slowed on the exit of Woodcote and was parked out of sight at Copse.

In GT4 Joe Osborne , now at the wheel of the #51 RPM Gineta was being caught by Matt Nicol Jones in the #88 IMS Motorsport Ginetta with Rob Austin a lap adrift in 3rd place. Nicol-Jones was right on the bumper of the GT4 leader as they began their 57th lap. Osborne bowed to the inevitable and Nicol-Jones went into the GT4 lead at Becketts.

Meanwhile back at the front Aaron Scott was pulling away from Nick Foster as the #2 RPM Viper was being caught by James Sutton in the #14 CRS Ferrari and on lap 71 Sutton went ahead at Luffield. Nick Foster seemed to be struggling with the handling of the Viper as Jeremy Metcalfe rapidly closed up to threaten the final podium position. Three laps later Metcalfe went ahead of Foster but knew that he would be unable to get on terms with the leaders before the end of the race.