After a break of four weeks, the battle for the 2005 Porsche Carrera Cup GB resumes for rounds nine and ten at Croft in North Yorkshire over the weekend of 16/17 July.Heading to the challenging venue near Darlington, Richard Westbrook (Red Line Racing) and Damien Faulkner (Team Parker Racing) are absolutely level on points with 126 each; that's a 30-point advantage over Jason Templeman (Team Parker Racing).As the championship reaches the half-way point, this is a critical stage in the title race. The Croft weekend starts a run of seven races in four weekends as the Mondello Park and Snetterton events follow quickly in the busiest part of the 2005 season. In reality, Faulkner has an advantage over Westbrook as the postponed round eight from Oulton Park will now be run at Mondello Park. As Westbrook missed the Oulton weekend whilst competing in the Porsche Supercup at Indianapolis, he cannot contest the additional Mondello race and so Faulkner effectively has a race in hand.But before that situation unwinds, they will go head to head at Croft, while Templeman and Tim Harvey (Team RPM) battle to get into the lead contest. Westbrook will arrive at Croft fresh from the Supercup race at Silverstone the preceding weekend, while Faulkner has had a month away from racing. Last year, Croft proved to be a troubled weekend for Westbrook, so he will be pushing very hard to continue his unbeaten 2005 Carrera Cup run.Harvey, however, has had a torrid season so far, with all sorts of bad luck hindering his title bid. He won both races at Croft last summer and needs a repeat of that success if he is to keep his title hopes alive. Currently, Tim is down in fifth in the points table as Nigel Rice (Red Line Racing) moved into fourth when Harvey had a disastrous weekend at Brands in early June.Rice, along with Red Line team mates Jason Young and Stephen Shanly, is working hard to close the gap to the championship's big four and the fact that Croft is the home track for the Red Line squad will give them an added boost. All of the Red Line racers have the pace to be on the podium at Croft.Meanwhile, Steve Clark (Team RPM) and David Ashburn (Trackspeed) will make their Croft Carrera Cup debuts, while Michael Corridan (Team Parker Racing) will be back in action following a major testing accident at Brands.