Round three of the 2004 Michelin Porsche Club Championship will take the drivers to Silverstone on Saturday, 15 May. Following a double header to kick the season off at Croft in mid-April, the stage is set for some cracking race action on the Silverstone National circuit, with a gaggle of drivers in with a real shot of challenging for victory.
Race wins at Croft were shared between Chris Eggington (968CS) and John Williams (3.2 Carrera), but at least three other drivers were firmly in contention during two action-packed races. In the dry, Eggington swept ahead as Ian White and Rod Carman clashed during a fierce battle in their 3.2 Carrera. However, in the very wet second race Williams again demonstrated his wet-weather pace by taking a dominant victory in the car borrowed from Chris Berry.
With a brace of second places, it was White who emerged from Croft with the class one championship lead and he was quick to admit that the Yorkshire track is not one of his strongest. He will be chasing victory at Silverstone to maintain his championship lead. Eggington, meanwhile, ended the second Croft race in the boonies after a high-speed spin, but will be back stronger than ever for Team GVR. So too, will his team mate Peter Morris who was always in the thick of the action at Croft and ended the weekend with a third and a fourth place.
For Carman, Croft was a trying weekend and he will head for Silverstone determined to show the form that made him a race winner last season. Other leading runners in class one include Richard Harrison (3.2 Carrera) and Mark Lillington in the 968CS with which Tony Brown contested the 2003 title race.
Richard Lambert (Carrera 3) dominated class two at Croft and even finished third overall in the second race, having run well up with the more powerful class on cars. Lambert played his joker at Croft, which doubled his championship score in the opening race and so he has leapt straight into a commanding overall championship lead. David Botterill (924 Carrera GT) and Adam Egar (911SC) are sure to lead the chase of Lambert, while the 911SCs of Mark Rogers and Colin Ingram should also be contenders.
Series newcomers Fraser Robertson (944) and Chris Stewart (911E) are currently the contenders in class three and it was Stewart who took the early points lead after Robertson ended the opening race in a tangle with the tyre wall! He came back strongly to win the class in the second race.
After the Silverstone race, the Porsche Club racers have only a week before the next double-header event at Snetterton on 22/23 May.
