Mike Jordan and Mark Sumpter were amongst the stars of the weekend for Jordan Warnock Racing in rounds nine and ten of the British GT Championship at Oulton Park over the weekend (17/18 July). After racing the John Guest Porsche 911GT3RS to a podium finish in the opening race they fought from the back of the grid to finish fourth in the second race.In qualifying, Jordan stormed to a dominant pole position for the first race, lapping more than a second faster than anyone else on a wet track. However, towards the end of the session Jordan lost the power steering and that pointed to an electrical charging problem that would mean Sumpter missed the second qualifying session.“The car was fantastic,” said Jordan after dominating the first session. However, Sumpter was destined not to even leave the pits. “It wouldn’t start, even with a jump battery,” explained Sumpter. An alternator plug was later diagnosed as the fault, but it left Sumpter facing the start of Sunday’s race from the back of the grid.Meanwhile, the other JWR team cars also featured strongly in qualifying. David and Godfrey Jones qualified an excellent third for the second race, having slipped to ninth for the first race after David got caught in traffic as the track dried slightly. Peter Chambers put in a storming first session to qualify eighth overall and second in GT Cup, while Michael Caine, in his debut run in the car set fifth in GT Cup in the second session. Stuart Scott/Steve Wood also flew in the second session to qualify an excellent third in GT Cup.The first corner of the first race proved disastrous for JWR, with two cars eliminated in an accident that started with the Porsche of Jonathon Cocker and the Corvette of Peter Le Bas. In the chain reaction tangle, both David Jones and Chambers were eliminated through no fault of their own. Jordan, however, was ahead of all the drama and took an immediate lead. But his advantage was negated when the safety car was brought out while the damaged cars from the first corner tangle were moved.Jordan led all the way to the pit-stops, but with its mandatory longer stop the JWR car was just edged to second during the stops behind the TVR of Steve Hyde/Piers Johnson. Over the closing 20 minutes of the race, Mark chased hard and had got the gap to the TVR down to under three seconds with three laps to go.However, coming out of Knickerbrook on lap 31 Mark got a wheel onto the kerb and the car snapped into a spin. Though he rejoined, the Ferrari of Andrew Kirkaldy had slipped through to second, leaving the John Guest car in third.Scott and Wood, meanwhile, drove a mighty race to take fifth in GT Cup, with Wood having to withstand immense pressure from the Porsche of Adam Sharpe for lap after lap. In one of the battles of the race, Wood held on superbly to take fifth.After the electrical drama in qualifying, Sumpter started the second race from the back of the 25-car field. Fortunately, the race was run in dry conditions and Mark was able to quickly set about making up places. By the end of the second lap he was up to 17th and he continued the excellent progress as the race developed.By lap 5 Mark was into tenth place and by the time he pitted to hand over to Jordan on lap 17 Mark was up to seventh place. “I had to push hard but not take any big chances,” said Mark. “I enjoyed that, but without a safety car I don’t think I could have got much further.”Jordan rejoined and set about continuing the car’s mighty progress up the order. He was soon into sixth and hunting down the cars ahead of him by setting lap times faster than just about any other car on the track.However, soon into his stint Jordan hit an electrical problem. “I turned into Druids and it just died. I told the guys over the radio that I was pulling over, but I flicked all the switches and it fired again.” Instantly he had lost six seconds and the problem continued through the balance of the race, sometimes twice a lap. Despite that handicap, Jordan battled through to fourth but was disappointed that the problem cost him the chance of claiming a place on the podium.Nevertheless, Jordan pulled off one of the moves of the race to take fourth from the Ferrari of Chris Niarchos. Having been blocked several times, Jordan went to the outside under braking for Lodge and held his ground as the cars ran side by side past the pits and through Old Hall. The move was captured by the TV cameras, and should make impressive viewing on Channel 4!Elsewhere in the JWR squad, David and Godfrey Jones ran a strong third for the first half of the race, but a spin and then a second pit stop for fresh front tyres dropped them to tenth. Chambers and Caine had a strong run to fourth in the GT Cup class, with Chambers grabbing fourth on the final lap from the Ferrari of Hector Lester. Finally, Wood and Scott took seventh in GT Cup.