Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Round 1

After qualifying comfortably fastest in a large Elite (semi-professional) field and less than a tenth of a second off outright pole (including the pro drivers), Anthony Gilbertson was caught-up in an unfortunate tangle after passing a slow starting Grove in pole position.

He quickly went from 'leading the race' to 'in the fence', all before the first corner. The awesome MR crew did an extra couple of hours work to get the car back into race trim for Sunday's races.

Race 2 was on a very wet and treacherous track. Anthony started from grid 15 and he had to deal with heavy traffic off the start and in the opening laps, but did a great job to pass 10 cars with easily the fastest Elite class lap time to finish 5th outright and 4th in Elite.

In the third race he got a good start in the wet conditions and demolished the other Elite class drivers in an outstanding drive back to second outright and 1st in Elite.

Despite his DNF in race 1 he was still able to bag enough points to make it onto the podium with third for the round.

Considering this was Brett's first ever visit to Sandown, we were suitably impressed that he was able to qualify 10th in Elite class after only two practice sessions on Friday. In race 1 he backed up his qualifying form with a good start and thoroughly enjoyed his first ever Porsche race. He kept out of trouble and finished an impressive 8th in Elite.

In race 2 Brett started 10th in his first wet Porsche race but kept his cool and learned plenty about the different technique of wet weather driving to finish 11th. In the last race Brett 'the big maan' completed his impressive first round by finishing 10th outright and 8th in Elite.

Of all the new drivers we have brought into GT3CC, Brett certainly had the trickiest and most challenging conditions to deal with on his debut.