Steven Kane took scored his second win in a row in round five of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB with a superb performance at Thruxton yesterday (Saturday 5 May). While Tim Harvey and James Sutton chased Kane throughout, Nigel Rice took pro-am spoils for the fourth time in five races.Kane (Motorbase Performance) got the jump off the line to lead into the first corner from Harvey (Red Line Racing), while Michael Caine (Team Parker Racing) challenged Sutton (Red Line Racing) for third, but got boxed in at the Complex and again at the Chicane. By the end of the first lap, Caine’s excellent start had been badly rewarded and he was down to eighth place.Up front, Kane had to push very hard to build even a small margin over his pursuers, as Sam Hancock (Motorbase Performance) chased in fourth. Gradually, the top three edged clear, with Kane taking a lead of around a second as Harvey chased. But mid-race, the gap began to grow as Harvey, unwell before the weekend, started to feel even worse. “I did feel really bad about halfway through the race,” admitted Tim, who dropped away from Kane and had to concentrate on keeping ahead of Sutton.That made certain of a second win of the season for Kane after an exemplary drive. His main concern was adapting to the heat inside the cockpit. “It’s hard to believe how warm you get inside the car,” he said on the podium after clawing three more points back from Harvey’s championship lead.Sutton was right behind team mate Harvey over the line. “That was a tough race,” said Sutton. “I made a couple of mistakes mid-race,” he added after another podium visit. Hancock ran fourth, but was being caught over the closing stages by Kelvin Burt (QM Engineering) and Caine. “That’s another step forward, and it’s just about getting everything right,” said Hancock.Burt, meanwhile, had driven a strong race despite losing time in the traffic at the Complex on the first lap. “I lost two places then, but it’s a good result for the team,” he acknowledged. Caine was sixth, but disappointed to have lost out so much on the opening lap, while Rob Collard (Team Parker Racing) was seventh after working ahead of Rice.In fact, though he took a commanding pro-am victory, Rice dropped to ninth place right at the chequered flag when Matt Howson (Porsche Motorsport) just pipped him in a sprint to the flag. The margin was five-hundredths of a second. Andy Britnell (Motorbase Performance) took second in pro-am, while Pete Osborne (Team O) claimed his first pro-am podium after coming out on top of a race-long battle with Charles Bateman (Team Parker Racing).