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Sean Edwards made a rare appearance in British GT again. Piers Maserati wanted him to produce some data for their new drivers and set a base time. Sean was comfortably faster, around 9 tenths faster than Ed Morris and 1.3 seconds faster than James Littlejohn, round the short Silverstone National track.
“It was nice to get back in a cup car again, but it felt like a boat compared to the RSR! I am just here helping out Tech9 and their new drivers. I set a decent enough time in 4 laps, as I have never done this configuration in a Porsche.” Said Sean.
Sean Edwards is in talks with Tech9, Trackspeed, RPM and Motorbase to run in the British GT championship in 2006. If a deal comes off he will be running the now dominant Porsche 996 GT3 cup car. They look to make a decision on what series/team they are going to driver for at the end of December/ beginning of January. Edwards said “2 teams stand out, it’s now all about which team can find the best co driver for me, so we can win the championship”
The 2nd race was at 1.30 on Sunday, it was bone dry and Warburton started the race. It was going to be hard for the duo to make their way up the field after the bad qualifying. The team had a good strategy for the race, but it depended on how fast Warburton could get passed everyone! Both cars had been repaired from last night’s incident, as the team worked all through the night, they did a great job!
Steve started the race and did a good job getting from 8th to 6th before handing over to me, I jumped in and 1st gear would not select, eventually after a while I pulled away in 2nd after loosing numerous amount of seconds. I then started pushing really hard, trying too make the positions back up.
The first race of the day was at 4.30 and like the team had predicted it stared pissing it down with rain. Edwards was starting the race and he had never driven a Porsche in the wet! The team sounded confident of their speed in the wet and it was up to the drivers to stay on the track and get a good result! This later proved hard as both cars got taken out. Edwards’s team-mate Al Mortimer got hit by a Ferrari and both cars smashed into Edwards!
We started 3rd on the grid and it was pissing it down with rain! On the start I overtook the Ashburn Porsche for 2nd place, and then later on the lap I got past the Quaife Porsche to get into the lead.
This week Edwards/Warburton are at the Silverstone International track, Edwards said “testing went well and we ended up 2nd in class”. Nothing major to report for the duo as everything went smoothly.
First Qualifying went really well with Edwards sticking it on pole and 3rd overall in GT3, they had high hopes for the race as it looked like it was going to rain later on!
The second Qualifying Warburton took over, but unfortunately he could only manage 8th because on his new tyre lap he got held up by a slower car. Edwards said “This was very unfortunate as it’s going to be hard to get up the front from here, but im sure we can do something form here tomorrow!”