Calum Lockie teamed up with Paul White to claim sixth overall and third in class in the Britcar 24-Hour race at Silverstone (1/2 October), but they were disappointed that a series of minor problems cost them a very real chance of winning the race outright.Lockie, White, Ross Bygrave and Piers Masarati drove the Strata 21 Mosler MT900R in the round-the-clock race and showed the pace needed to win, but a number of small but time-consuming problems cost them a shot at victory."We had the pace to win it," said Lockie of the race that ran in challenging weather conditions. "Mechanically, the car was perfect but we just had too many little problems. Everyone drove superbly, setting good times and keeping out of trouble," said Lockie after completing his 15th 24-hour race.After running in testing on Thursday, the team went into qualifying on Friday in confident mood and Calum was sent out on the wet track to set the grid position. "The first flying lap was good enough for pole by a thousandth of a second," said Calum. Then, World Touring Car racer Rob Huff went half a second quicker in the Aquila, but Calum had no chance to respond. Yellow flags blocked his first run and just as he set up another lap, oil went down on the wet track. "The risk was too high," he said of the conditions, which left the Mosler second on the grid and nearly two seconds clear of the rest.Having set the qualifying time, Calum was detailed to start the race. "I got a really good start and nearly pipped Huff out of Copse, but I decided to slot in behind him." Unfortunately after only a handful of laps Calum hit a problem with the Mosler's paddle shift system. He had to make an unscheduled stop and the team was forced to resort to the manual shift system for the balance of the race."We went back out five laps down, and just knuckled down and kept going. I did a double stint and pulled back as many places as possible," said Calum. The other drivers then took their first stints, but several more minor problems cost further time as the rain set in through the evening. "We just kept pushing and pushing and I did a triple stint from 1am to 4am. It was very, very wet and we had a power steering problem," he said.However, the biggest problem they faced during the night was the lights cutting out. "It was scary in the night. The lights would all go out, then you'd go over a bump and they'd come back on. That's scary when you are doing 150mph into Maggotts! The lights would sometimes go off 20 times in one lap and once they went off at Becketts and didn't come back on until Vale," reported Calum. Despite the lights drama, he was still lapping up to four seconds faster than anyone else in heavy rain at the dead of night. At times, the car was aquaplaning on Hanger Straight. "There was a lot of standing water, which was really tricky in such a powerful car."Then, in the early hours of Sunday, White had a wiper arm break and had to stop for a repair. The resourceful crew quickly effected a repair, but more time was lost. "The guys in the team with Steve Scott and Dave Sheard were excellent; they worked so hard," said Calum, who was back in the car for his final stint, a triple session between  10am through to 1pm on Sunday.Ultimately, sixth overall and third in class was the result of great team work and four drivers all performing superbly. "It was a big, big result for everyone," said Calum. "Huge thanks are due to Paul and the Strata 21 team for making this possible," said Lockie. "My thanks also go to Martin Short from Rollcentre Racing for his unstinting support, and my team mates for doing such a good job." Trade support for Calum Lockie comes from Dunlop, Grand Prix Racewear, Motul Oil, Piloti, Brian James Trailers and Porsche Centre Silverstone.