James Sutton completed a perfect weekend with another victory in round eight of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Croft (Sunday 3 June). Sutton led from the start as his rivals battled and it was Steven Kane and Sam Hancock who ultimately completed the podium, while Nigel Rice won the pro-am category for the seventh time in eight races.Starting from pole position, Sutton (Red Line Racing) again led the pack into the first corner and then drove a textbook race to win by just over two seconds. Although Kane (Motorbase Performance) never stopped chasing, he was eventually forced to settle for second place and his result was enough to take Kane into the lead of the championship.“That’s exactly what we wanted to do,” said Sutton. “This result has come slightly earlier than I thought it might and it’s a turning point for my confidence. I’m enjoying it a lot!” Sutton’s dominance of both races also earned him the ‘RAC driver of the weekend’ award. Meanwhile, Red Line Racing earned the ‘RAC team of the weekend’ award for a tremendous team effort.Kane was pleased to take over the championship lead from Tim Harvey (Red Line Racing) on his first visit to Croft for three years and his first races in a Porsche at the Yorkshire track. “To get two second places and come out with the championship lead is all we could have hoped for,” said Kane.While Sutton and Kane edged clear of the pack, much of the excitement centred on the battle for third place. Michael Caine (Team Parker Racing) made a fantastic start and briefly held second, but then settled in to third place with Harvey right on his tail. Meanwhile, Sam Hancock (Motorbase Performance) was charging up the field from the back of the grid. Having badly damaged one set of tyres with a high speed spin in qualifying, Hancock elected to take a new set of tyres for the second race and start from the back of the grid as allowed under championship regulations.By mid-race it was a three-car train, but Harvey was struggling with damaged steering after clipping the tyres at the chicane. Into Tower for the eleventh time, Harvey dived up alongside Caine and the cars touched. Caine spun and Harvey continued, but now had Hancock pressing hard. Two laps later, Hancock managed to battle ahead of Harvey at Tower and make certain of his first visit to the Carrera Cup podium. “Tim’s a really tough racer,” said Hancock. “I just want to thank the team at Motorbase for their support,” he added.Rice also got ahead of Caine, but then had to fend him off over the final laps to take fifth overall and pro-am victory. “I thought if I could keep him between me and Andy Britnell I’d get another point,” said Rice. Caine, meanwhile, was pleased to have found better pace for the second race. “The car was better; we found a problem after the first race,” explained Caine.Britnell took second in pro-am and was never far away from Rice, while Pete Osborne (Team O) fended off Charles Bateman (Team Parker Racing) and Colin Willmott (Willmott Racing) for third in pro-am.