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British GT Snetterton, 3rd June 2007

With an extensively rebuilt car from the Donington accident the team started the weekend on the backfoot. The new chassis ran well out of the box and Thursday was spent running the car in and establishing a basic set-up. Friday allowed both drivers to drive the car for the first time since Donington.

In Saturday qualifying, with the times being combined, Mike Gardiner set a time in first practice and Paul Fenton conserved tyres in the second qualification session. This led to a season best qualifying of 10th on the grid. The start was marred by mis-information from an official and a brought forward start time. Along with five others the car started from the pitlane.

Mike Gardiner made steady pace through the grid from the start following Stephan Daudi and the brand new Lambourghini Gallardo through the pack. The team opted for a consistent pace to preserve the car for a 2 hour race. Other teams and drivers clearly approached the race as a fifteen minute sprint. With 50 minutes gone the team were up to P8 when the safety car was brought out for the first time. Although it was too early to stop the team opted to take on fuel and change the driver to Paul Fenton. Fenton rejoined in 5th place and set a steady pace to protect the position and conserve fuel. With 40 minutes to go the Tech9 Porsche expired infront of the team's Viper leaving fluid into the first corner. Fortunately Fenton witnessed the incident and was able to avoid the fluid, others were less lucky and the safety car came out. This played into the teams' hands allowing Fenton to conserve fuel behind the safety car for a number of laps. With the first top 10 position of the season in sight the team opted to let the 3rd Aston Martin past and settle for 6th. This turned out to be the correct strategy with the car running out of fuel at Parc Ferme.

Sixth place was attained by using the team's experience of endurance racing. More pace will have to be found for Brands Hatch and a return to the 2 x 1 hour race format.