Michael Cullen and Paddy Shovlin celebrated their third win of the year at
Brands Hatch on Sunday after a rear wheel problem denied James Gornall and Jon Barnes a dream way to win the 2008 Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
The Team Trimite Brookspeed Viper finished seventh, which was good enough to put the title beyond doubt.
Newly crowned GT4 Champions Matt Nicol-Jones and Stewart Linn meanwhile finished the weekend with their sixth win from twelve races.
At the start, Allan Simonsen in the #23 Christians in Motorsport Ferrari led the grid towards Paddock Hill for the first time with third placed Jon Barnes getting a better start than second placed Oliver Bryant in the #1 Team RPM Viper to dive down the inside at Paddock Hill to take the battle to Simonsen at Druids.
Adam Wilcox in the #12 VRS Motor Finance Ferrari also got a great start from 6th to pass Michael Bentwood and Aaron Scott on the opening lap. Scott also passed Bentwood and followed Wilcox closely for two laps before regaining the lost place at Graham Hill Bend on lap 3.
In GT4 Joe Osborne got a great start to get on terms with Nigel Moore, passing his Team RPM team-mate at Graham Hill with Moore then coming under pressure from the newly crowned GT4 champion Stewart Linn.
At the front Simonsen was edging away from Barnes who had the Vipers of Bryant and Scott following closely behind. Further back Michael Bentwood had managed to get past the Ferrari of Adam Wilcox at Druids and open up a gap to the
Ferrari. Wilcox had six cars behind his Ferrari led by Guy Harrington in the #11 Team Modena Lamborghini, followed by Gavan Kershaw, Michael Cullen, James Sutton, Nigel Redwood and Luke Hines.
Meanwhile back at the front Jon Barnes was still soaking up the pressure from Oliver Bryant but then a Black and Orange flag was shown to the #1 Viper due to the under-tray working loose. A frustrated Oliver Bryant had to make an unscheduled pit-stop on lap 9 which cost him any chance of a podium finish.
