While Danny Watts cinched another victory in round 18 of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Brands Hatch yesterday, Damien Faulkner secured the overall championship title by finishing a close second. The opening laps of the race really settled the season-long championship battle. Watts (Team IRWIN with Red Line) again converted pole position into a first corner lead from Tim Harvey (Motorbase Performance), but Faulkner (Team Parker with SAS) then squeezed ahead of Harvey into Clearways. “I saw him make a lunge and gave him room,” said Harvey. The cars made slight contact and half a lap later Jason Templeman (Team Parker with SAS) edged Harvey back to fourth on the run up hill out of Paddock. Suddenly, things were not looking good for Harvey, but then came three laps behind the safety car after Maxi Jazz (Red Line Racing) spun into the gravel at Druids.At the restart, Harvey ran wide onto the grass at Graham Hill Bend as a front puncture – a legacy of the contact with Faulkner – became apparent. Harvey limped to the pits for a wheel change, but his final championship hopes were gone. “The contact took the valve out of the tyre and also bent the steering. It’s a shame; I wanted the championship to go down to the wire,” added Harvey.Now, it was Watts, Faulkner and Templeman clear at the front of the pack and they raced to the flag in close formation, with Watts scoring win number 10 and Faulkner clinching the title. “That’s another perfect weekend,” said Watts. “I wanted to bounce back from Knockhill with a couple of wins!”Faulkner, too, had realized his ambition for the weekend. “Absolutely fantastic,” he said. “It’s just brilliant to wrap the title up here and I’m just overwhelmed. It’ll take a day or two to sink in that we’ve won back-to-back titles,” he said. “I was prepared to risk things a bit more today, but there was nothing I could do about Danny,” he added.Templeman had also enjoyed a strong race. “I got a good started and dispatched Tim nicely. Then it was a matter of staying behind Damien,” said Jason. Behind the leading trio, Michael Caine (Motorbase Performance) and Richard Williams (IN2RACING) battled for fourth and Caine was unlucky to lose the place at Paddock as the rejoining Harvey inadvertently held up his team mate. By the end of the race, Williams and Caine had been caught by James Pickford (IN2RACING) after a mighty charge up the field from the back of the grid.Sam Edwards (Team Parker Racing) was a dominant pro-am winner on the road, having run with Williams and Caine for much of the race. “I was glad to see the flag,” explained Edwards. “I had a big vibration over the last two laps and I really had to slow down.” However, Edwards was later excluded from the results for a technical infringement and so Andy Purdie (RH Motorsport with Paragon) and Jason Young (Red Line Racing) moved up to first and second in pro-am after excellent races, while Nigel Rice (Red Line Racing) raced hard to fend off Mike Richards (IN2RACING), Phil Quaife (Motorbase Performance) and David Ashburn (Trackspeed) after a race-long battle. Richards recovered strongly from a first-lap spin at Druids, but could not depose the defiant Rice. However, after his fine pro-am win on Saturday, Richards earned the driver of the weekend award.Provisional results – 36 laps:1 Danny Watts (Team IRWIN with Red Line)          30m39.244s2 Damien Faulkner (Team Parker with SAS)          30m39.525s3 Jason Templeman (Team Parker with SAS)          30m39.826s4 Richard Williams (IN2RACING)                      30m41.910s5 Michael Caine (Motorbase Performance)          30m43.042s6 James Pickford (IN2RACING with totalamber) 30m43.216s7 Andy Purdie (RH Motorsport with Paragon)          31m03.654s8 Jason Young (Red Line Racing)                      31m04.129s9 Nigel Rice (Red Line Racing)                             31m07.499s10 Mike Richards (IN2RACING with totalamber) 31m07.799s