Total Control Racing’s George Gamble added three more Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT5 Challenge podiums to his impressive season tally at Spa-Francorchamps over the weekend, enabling the series leader to depart Belgium with a very healthy 36-point advantage at the top of the standings.Going into the sole overseas event of the campaign determined to consolidate his championship lead at the very least, the Nottingham driver boosted his 2014 podium hit rate to 13 from 14 races contested with runner-up spots in each of the Spa encounters.Team-mate Callum Pointon, who was on course to match his season’s best of fourth during the third race on Saturday, 12th July, instead had to settle for sixth position. Added to sixth in round 13 and seventh in round 14, though, the Cheddleton youngster maintained his place in the series top five.“It’s been a really strong weekend again for both George and Callum, to come away from a long trip to Spa with a good lead in the championship and more podiums is fantastic”, said TCR team principal Lee Brookes, “It’s a very challenging track, where the slightest mistake can cost you a lot, but both guys did a great job and came away with some very consistent results. It’s been a great weekend.”Lining up third on the grid for round 13 on Friday, 11th July, Gamble held his top three placing on lap one but was nudged back to fourth on the second tour. The lead quartet remained tightly bunched for almost the entire duration and going into the final lap, only 1.5 seconds covered the group.Holding fourth into the last 4.3-miles of racing, Gamble leap-frogged Ollie Chadwick and Frederick Mortensen at the final turn as the duo diced over second place. Gladly snatching the runner-up spot, Gamble also increased his lead at the top of the championship.Pointon, who qualified eighth fastest for the opening race, was shuffled back to 10th place on lap one but made swift progress and moved back into the top eight on the second tour. Taking seventh on lap four, he then broke into the top six on the penultimate lap to complete a strong performance.In race two on Saturday morning, Gamble made a decent start and held fourth through La Source before fending off an early challenge at Les Combes. Climbing into the top three at the Bus Stop Chicane at the end of the second tour, he then brilliantly grabbed second position on lap three.Although elbowed back a couple of spots soon after, Gamble was back into second place by the end of the lap and from that point on he pulled clear of the chasing pack. Although eventual winner Dennis Strandberg was long gone, Gamble nonetheless pushed hard to close down the gap and after reeling off fastest lap pace, he ultimately ended the encounter just 2.6 seconds adrift at the flag.As during race one, Pointon was again in the thick of the front-running action and held sixth place early on in the middle of an intense 10 car battle. Challenging for fifth into lap four, Pointon was instead shuffled back to seventh and then ninth on lap five after some robust dicing.Moving back into seventh on the penultimate tour, he eventually finished in eighth place but was promoted to seventh post-race following the application of a 10 second penalty to Chadwick for an on-track indiscretion.Starting the third and final race of the weekend from the front row of the grid, Gamble held second place off the line and ran tight behind Strandberg as the lead duo pulled well clear of the pack. With little to separate the pair, they circulated almost nose-to-tail for the duration with Gamble taking his third runner-up spot of the weekend just 0.6 seconds behind the Swede at the flag.Pointon held fourth position during the early running and was within just a second of the podium as the race reached mid-distance. Following an attack on lap five, however, the TCR racer was elbowed down to sixth which put him on the back-foot and resulted in a further slip to seventh. Retirement for Frederick Mortensen, though, on lap six enabled Pointon to reclaim sixth place before the finish.Only two race weekends remain in the Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT5 Challenge with rounds 16, 17 and 18 set to take place at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit on 30th/31st August. Prior to that, TCR will return to the track with its Michelin Clio Cup Race Series squad on 26th/27th July, also at Brands Hatch, while its Ginetta Junior Championship team will be in action on 2nd/3rd August at Snetterton.Provisional 2014 Protyre Motorsport Ginetta GT5 Challenge Driver Standings (after Rd15):1st George Gamble, 403pts; 5th Callum Pointon, 214ptsKind Regards,