No what the Addisons had hoped for in Britcars visit to Donington Park today

 

The fifth round ninety-minute adventure of the Britcar Endurance Championship earlier today proved itself to be an unfortunately short one for the Addison Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4.

With the father and son combo of Bill and Martin Addison again behind the wheel of their #189 GT class entry, yesterday’s testing results looked favourable for the pairing as most of today’s twenty-five strong, multi-classed entry enjoyed a day’s testing around the arid looking Donington Park circuit ahead of today’s qualifying and race.

Bucking the trend of their usual performance, it was Bill Addison who qualified the car P22 overall and P12 in class ahead of this afternoons ninety-minute round around the shorter National circuit layout.

 

Despite a clean start by all, the #189 race ended abruptly at the start of only the third lap when the camera panned across to see the red and white liveried car side on to the tyre wall on the outside of Redgate’s. Having evidently made its way through the gravel before impacting nose on to the barrier before losing its bonnet and its part within the race. The causation of this event wasn’t seen by the cameras but there were other cars behind them on track at the time.