Hector Lester and Allan Simonsen scored their second win of the weekend as the CiM Ferrari 430 took a lights to flag victory in round twelve of the 2007 Avon Tyres British GT Championship at
Croft.
The Ferrari finished 17.3 seconds ahead of Guy Harrington in the #3 Barwell Aston Martin, with the eight championship points enough to put Harrington and Ben de Zille Butler at the top of the championship table, one point ahead of third placed Jonny Cocker and Paul Drayson.
The GTC Class was won by the RSS Performance Porsche 996 of Graeme Mundy and Jamie Smyth after the Team Aero Morgan of Keith Ahlers retired with the engine bay and windscreen covered in oil. The Beechdean Ferrari of Andrew Howard and Aaron Scott was just 3.5 seconds behind at the flag.
Simonsen got a good start as the race went green while behind the
Ferrari, Bradley Ellis made up two places on the opening lap, passing the VRS Motor Finance Ferrari of Adam Wilcox at the first corner, with both of them demoting the Aston Martin of Jonny Cocker to fourth by the end of lap one.
Dust was kicked up at Clervaux as Ben de Zille Butler and Godfrey Jones went onto the grass, losing them both valuable places. Barrie Whight in the Cadena Motorsport Aston was hard on the heels of the Tech 9 Porsche of Tom Ferrier, finding a way past on the second lap. Ferrier continued to track the yellow Aston closely, trying to regain the place with a daring move on the inside at the first corner on the next lap, only for Whight to close the door firmly but fairly.
Nick Foster was the first casualty of the race, going off at Tower Bend and bringing out the Safety Car to allow recovery of the beached Team RPM Viper. Just as this was happening the Team Aero Morgan and the Richmond Racing Ginetta both came into the pit-lane and both retired depleting the GTC grid by fifty percent before the race was ten minutes old.
