Titles still need to be determined within the British GTs final two rounds starting this weekend from Donington

Starting with them, the first year of operations of the Snetterton based Forsetti team has been something of a deserved minor miracle as drivers Mikey Porter and Jamie Day joined forces again (having raced together within the earlier GT4 Winter Series) within the #7 Silver class entry whilst Marc Warren and Will Orton changed chassis and series to pair up within their #47 Pro-Am entry.

Since that point, their combined results have been nothing short of remarkable considering two of those were racing within the GT4 level for the first time and rightly take the top slot within their respective class championship table going into this weekend’s two-hour penultimate race although the points margins to the chasing pack make things far from certain.

In addition to the usual event and championship aspirational pressures, both Forsetti crews will also have the additional issue of an extended pit stop minimum time to contend with in addition to their already stated minimums having finished on the podium last time out at Snetterton in mid-July.

Within the GT3 classes, however, there are unfortunately no such championship potential for any of the three Vantage GT3 entries from either the Blackthorn AMR or Beechdean AMR teams.

Swapping over to the new 2024 variant at the start of the season, the #97 Beechdean AMR team took a change in tack as Andrew Howard decided upon a Silver-Am entry alongside GT3 debutant Jessica Hawkins but then had to miss out the two available races at Snetterton to put paid to anything more than event success, just like they did last time out at Donington Park with a class third in race two.

That leaves the two Blackthorn AMR crews of the #10 Silver-Am car of Matt Topham and Josh Rowledge alongside the #87 Pro-Am entry of Giacomo Petrobelli and Jonny Adam.

Things started badly for the #10 crew after off’s at both the media day at Donington Park and then at the first day from Oulton Park saw them with little mileage under their belts (with car parts in short supply) and two DNS for the opening round. Things have thankfully improved for the crew with a steady stream of championship points that now sees them P4 in class albeit over a hundred points behind the already declared Silver-Am winners.

Finally, there is the #87 Vantage GT3 car of Petrobelli and Adam who have been struck down with a mixture of car underperformance and misfortune on track to never really threaten the GT3 podium (except for at Spa before a technical issue sidelined the car just before the end) to languish down in P8 in just a third of the points value of the present championship leader.

Will all pressures now removed from the GT3 crews; things will hopefully be a little more relaxed ahead of Sunday’s two-hour race.

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