Another double for the two Astons at the end of todays three hour British GT race from Spa

The #97 Beechdean AMR of Andrew Howard and Tom Wood also started the race from top spot within their own Silver-Am class but were soon passed by their rival #86 Bridger Motorsport Honda NSX on the opening laps.

Only a Full Course Yellow and latter Safety Car thwarted the efforts of the Blackthorn crew as that bunched the pack back up togther again. With three mandatory pit stops required this time around and with no driver able to race for more than one hundred minutes, that gave the teams plenty of scope to juggle their strategy as and when needed or as they saw fit.

With both Am’s starting within their respective cars, both crews chopped and changed drivers back and forth to allow each of their faster drivers somewhere near their maximum drive time towards the end of the race. That was at about the hour remaining mark when Adam returned to the track (then down to third overall) as he soon caught and passed the Paddock Motorsport McLaren and the Spirit of Race Ferrari to retake the lead of the race again from which they would never look back.

For the Beechdean pair, it wasn’t a case of just winning their class but also of seeing just what could be achieved as silver graded driver Wood slowly but surely climbed the timing screen to eventually finish fifth overall.

These points not only place Adam as a clear best performer in the history of the championship with his now twenty race wins to date but also to lift the crew up to second in the Overall and Pro-Am Cup table with the Beechdean crew again stretching their lead over the Bridger crew in silver-am as the Championship now looks to the two sprint races around Snetterton in mid-July.

For the Beechdean crew, however, this will be an elongated stay in Belgium as they now prepare for the Spa 24 just next weekend.

Photo credits – Jacob Ebrey