2 podiums in tough weekend for JWR

The Jordan Warnock Racing team suffered from a string of misfortune in rounds 11 and 12 of the British GT Championship at Silverstone on Sunday (15 August), but still ended the weekend with two podium finishes.Qualifying for the two races went well for the squad, with Mike Jordan putting the John Guest Porsche 911 GT3-RS onto the front row for the opening race and Mark Sumpter taking sixth place for the second race.In the Preci-Spark car, Godfrey and David Jones qualified seventh and ninth for the two races, while the two GT Cup class cars suffered mixed fortunes. Steve Wood and Stuart Scott lined up eighth in class for the first race, with Peter Chambers two places ahead.For the second race the Wood/Scott car took seventh on the grid while Michael Caine put the number 66 car into a cracking third place in GT Cup, before the clutch exploded in spectacular fashion, giving the team plenty to do before the races on Sunday.Jordan got a great start in race one, slotting into second place behind the leading Ferrari. However, a faulty ECU dropped the Porsche away from the leader and Mike brought the car into the pits to try and cure the fault. After turning the engine off and resetting the ECU the car ran faultlessly to the end of the race, unfortunately in thirteenth place overall and a lap down on the winners.The Jones brothers also had a race to forget. Godfrey handed the car over in the lead of the race but two laps into David’s stint a suspension failure put them out of the running. Another clutch problem stopped Chambers/Caine from finishing the first race, leaving just Wood/Scott to come home for JW Racing, scoring sixth place in GT Cup.In race two it was Sumpter's turn to face the bad luck, when a gearbox problem left him stranded out on the circuit, unable to make it back to the pits in the first half of the race. “I think we should call the car Christine like the Stephen King book because I’m sure it's cursed!" joked Mike. "For some reason it just always seems to get the little small problems on it and we don’t know why. It’s definitely been a bad weekend for us. But, the Cup Class boys did well in the second race. We’ve had plenty to do over the three days.”The Jones brothers made up for the non-finish in race one by crossing the line in second place at the end of race two, the extra silverware making up for the disappointment of earlier in the day. In a race run in incredibly slippery conditions, the Joneses drove superbly to take a mighty second place. “I couldn’t believe it when the suspension went after David got in the car,” said Godfrey after the first race. “It was going so well. But we came away with a good result this time.”The Cup class cars suffered mixed fortunes though. The high point was Caine and Chambers taking a fantastic fourth overall and second in GT Cup in the wet and slippery conditions, giving Chambers something to smile about at the end of the day.“I’m very pleased with that, it was hard work,” said Chambers. “The team has worked really hard this weekend so it's good to get a result like this. I think I need more time to recover before Thruxton though!” Meanwhile, the Wood/Scott car finished a battered tenth in GT Cup after contact with a wayward Adam Sharpe in the Tech 9 car.

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