Team Modena on 2nd row at Silverstone

Racecar client Team Modena are 9/1000ths of a second behind the Ferrari pole sitter in a very tight qualifying session for today's GT race

2007 Avon Tyres British GT Championship

Round 8 Qualifying – Silverstone

All Ferrari Front Row for Silverstone 2-Hour Race

The VRS Motor Finance Ferrari 430 of Adam Wilcox and Phil Burton will head up the grid for Round 8 of the 2007 Avon Tyres British GT Championship, with the CiM Ferrari 430 of Hector Lester and Tim Mullen alongside them on the front row with just 0.005 seconds between them after the 30-minute qualifying session.

Another four thousandths behind the leading pair the Team Modena Lamborghini Gallardo of Adam Jones and Matt Owen heads up row two, with the Mosler MT900 of Kevin Riley and Ian Flux in 4th after the car suffered a low voltage battery problem for the entire session.  The Aston Martin DBRS9 of Jonny Cocker and Paul Drayson and the Damax Ascari KZ1R of Tommy Erdos and Steve Keating are on Row 3 just ahead of the Tech 9 Porsche of Matt Harris and Tom Ferrier and the Eclipse Mosler of Craig and Elliott Cole.

The number 2 Aston Martin of Michael Bentwood and Tom Alexander and the Team Berlanga Ascari of Erik Zwart and Michael Greenhalgh round out the top 10 for Round 8.

The RSS Performance Porsche 996 of Graeme Mundy and Jamie Smyth claimed the

GTC class pole after the Team Aero Morgan of Steve Hyde and Keith Ahlers failed to appear due to the team deciding to change the V8 engine after problems in free practice.

Round 8 of the 2007 Avon Tyres British GT Championship is due to get underway at 11:45 and lasts two hours.

CLICK HERE to listen to post qualifying interview with Adam Wilcox and Tim Mullen

ROUND 8 – Qualifying

1 - 12 - GT3 - Adam Wilcox / Phil Burton - Ferrari 430 - 1m24.491

2 - 23 - GT3 - Hector Lester / Tim Mullen - Ferrari 430 - +0.005s

3 - 21 - GT3 - Adam Jones / Matt Owen - Lamborghini Gallardo - +0.009s

4 - 27 - GT3 - Ian Flux / Kevin Riley - Mosler MT900 - +0.256s

5 - 1 - GT3 - Paul Drayson / Jonny Cocker - Aston Martin DBRS9 - +0.583s

6 - 10 - GT3 - Tommy Erdos / Stephen Keating - Ascari KZ1R - +0.826s

7 - 9 - GT3 - Matt Harris / Tom Ferrier - Porsche 997 - +1.077s

8 - 44 - GT3 - Craig Cole / Elliott Cole - Mosler MT900 - +1.141s

9 - 11 - GT3 - Phil Keen / Oliver Bryant - Ascari KZ1R - +1.232s

10 - 2 - GT3 - Tom Alexander / Michael Bentwood - Aston Martin DBRS9 - +1.452s

11 - 31 - GT3 - Michael Greenhalgh / Erik Zwart - Ascari KZ1R - +1.479s

12 - 22 - GT3 - Godfrey Jones / David Jones - Ascari KZ1R - +1.526s

13 - 3 - GT3 - Guy Harrington / Ben de Zille Butler - Aston Martin DBRS9 - +1.563s

14 - 4 - GT3 - Fergus Campbell / Mark Cole - Porsche 997 - 1.728s

15 - 6 - GT3 - Alex Mortimer / Bradley Ellis - Viper Competition Coupe - +1.755s

16 - 17 - GT3 - Neil Cunningham / Mike Gardiner - Viper Competition Coupe - +1.947s

17 - 8 - GT3 - Peter Bamford / Matt Griffin - Porsche 997 - +1.969s

18 - 18 - GT3 - Gavan Kershaw / Barrie Whight - Aston Martin DBRS9 - +2.170s

19 - 14 - GT3 - David Ashburn / Jonny Lang - Porsche 997 - +2.448s

20 - 40 - GT3 - Nigel Greensall / Phiroze Bilimoria - Viper Competition Coupe - +3.554s

21 - 54 - GTC - Graeme Mundy / Jamie Smyth - Porsche 996 - +3.813s

22 - 5 - GT3 - Henry Fletcher / Nick Padmore - Viper Competition Coupe - +3.879s

23 - 7 - GT3 - Nigel Redwood / Nick Foster - Viper Competition Coupe - +4.437s

24 - 64 - GTC - Phil Nuttal / Andrew Shelley - Porsche 996 - +4.943s

25 - 99 - GTC - Andrew Howard / Aaron Scott - Ferrari 360 Modena - +6.918s

26 - 88 - GTC - Nick Marsh / Richard Hollebon - Ginetta G20 GTR - +7.208s

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