Tim Harvey completed a perfect weekend at Snetterton when he won round 14 of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB yesterday (Sunday 29 July). With pole position and two race wins, it was a fine weekend for Harvey and Red Line Racing.“We’ve found a problem with the dampers on the car that has hurt us in recent weekends, so it’s great to come back and win twice this weekend,” said Harvey. “I’m just aiming for more race wins over the rest of the season now,” he added.Harvey got away well from pole to take an immediate lead from Steven Kane (Motorbase Performance) and as early as the second lap Kane was struggling to match Harvey’s pace. “I lost the splitter through the chicane on the second lap and after that I was just hanging on, with big understeer everywhere,” said Kane.He soon came under attack from the chasing pack and it was Sam Hancock (Motorbase Performance) who starred by fighting through to second. First he bravely dived ahead of Michael Caine (Team Parker Racing) round the outside into Riches, then edged ahead of Kane two laps later to take second. However, Harvey had already gone clear and Hancock was never able to close the gap to the race leader. For his double win, Harvey was confirmed as ‘RAC driver of the weekend’, while the Red Line Racing team was awarded the ‘RAC team of the weekend’ award.Hancock, too, drove a fine race to score his best Carrera Cup result to date in second. “That felt like a long race,” said Sam. “It’s absolutely fantastic and I really owe this result to the Motorbase team.” Caine was the next to dive ahead of Kane and grabbed third at Russell on lap five and as the leading trio pulled clear, Kane was having all sorts of problems keeping his pursuers at bay.James Sutton (Red Line Racing) and Nigel Rice (Red Line Racing) were climbing all over the back of Kane’s car as the championship leader battled to hold on to fourth place. Meanwhile, Jon Barnes (Team Parker Racing) had charged through from the back of the grid and made it a four-way battle. Sutton tried all ways to depose Kane, but could never quite make a decisive move and even dropped behind Barnes at one point after losing momentum while attacking Kane at Russell. However, with his tyres fading, Barnes could not hold fifth and Sutton re-took the place after some tremendous dicing.“It was great to be battling with Steven and James, but I had big oversteer for the last five laps,” said Barnes. Rice, meanwhile, was right with the battle for fourth as he claimed pro-am spoils. “That was great fun; I had the best view of the action,” said Rice. Second in pro-am went to Andy Britnell (Motorbase Performance), but only after he withstood immense pressure from Charles Bateman (Team Parker Racing) for much of the race. “I really had to work for that,” said Britnell. “He was mega on the brakes into the Esses.”
Porsche Carrera Cup GB results -Date: Sunday 29 July 2007 - Venue: Snetterton - Event: Round 14, 24 laps
1 Tim Harvey Pro Red Line Racing 27m52.025s2 Sam Hancock Pro Motorbase Performance 27m56.755s3 Michael Caine Pro Team Parker Racing 28m01.892s4 Steven Kane Pro Motorbase Performance 28m13.684s5 James Sutton Pro Red Line Racing 28m14.811s6 Jon Barnes Pro Team Parker Racing 28m15.974s7 Nigel Rice Pro-am Red Line Racing 28m16.516s8 Andy Britnell Pro-am Motorbase Performance 28m22.796s9 Charles Bateman Pro-am Team Parker Racing 28m23.158s10 Pete Osborne Pro-am Team O 28m44.175s11 Ian White - Porsche Motorsport 28m44.781s12 Steve Clark Pro-am Team RPM 28m48.179s13 Iain Dockerill Pro-am Chad Racing 23 lapsDNF Maxi Jazz Pro-am Red Line Racing 8 laps
