British GT3 - 2 Seas end Saturday on top at Silverstone 26.06.2021: 2 Seas served notice of their intent by topping morning practice and repeated that form throughout the afternoon’s two 10-minute qualifying sessions.

2 Seas served notice of their intent by topping morning practice and repeated that form throughout the afternoon’s two 10-minute qualifying sessions.



TF Sport’s Giacomo Petrobelli and Inception Racing’s Brendan Iribe traded fastest times initially but were unable to respond to either of Hunter Abbott’s flying laps, the best of which – 1m59.704s – handed 2 Seas a 0.565s headstart in Q2.


That same margin covered second to eighth in the opening session. RAM Racing’s James Cottingham and Ian Loggie underlined the Mercedes-AMG’s potential by slotting into fourth and fifth behind Iribe and Petrobelli, and ahead of Adam Balon (Barwell Motorsport), Morgan Tillbrook (Enduro Motorsport) and Richard Neary (Team Abba Racing).



Big swings have been known to occur between the two qualifying sessions but any suggestion that might be the case here was swiftly silenced by Martin Kodric who unleashed two scintillating laps in quick succession to seal Q2 top spot by 0.7s.



Before that the top of the timesheets were a whirr of fastest times as the likes of Marco Sorensen, Sandy Mitchell and Charlie Eastwood all lowered Q2’s benchmark.


Mitchell ultimately emerged second quickest of all to move Barwell from sixth to third in the combined times, which later became second when Petrobelli incurred a two-place grid penalty for crossing the pit exit blend line.



The Italian and Eastwood thus drop to fourth behind Ian Loggie and Yelmer Buurman who ended Q3 third quickest of all.



Inception’s McLaren dropped to fifth in the final reckoning but was just 0.025s shy of starting of the front row, while Marcus Clutton and Enduro Motorsport impressed again en route to fourth in Q2 and sixth overall.


Beechdean AMR’s Vantage starts seventh in the hands of Andrew Howard and Jonny Adam after setting an identical combined time to Brands Hatch sparring partners Leo Machitski and Dennis Lind (Barwell). The Aston starts one place ahead by dint of establishing its cumulative lap time first.


Behind, Proctors Stewart and Lewis line up first in Silver-Am after beating fellow father/son duo Richard and Sam Neary to ninth overall.


Further back, a troubled day for WPI’s championship leaders Michael Igoe and Phil Keen continued after the pair qualified their Lamborghini, which is suffering from a mechanical issue, 16th.
 




- Tom Hornsby photos SRO