F1: 2 Seas back on podium – Gulf Digital News

F1: 2 Seas back on podium – Gulf Digital News

The fourth round of the Intelligent Money British GT Championship saw 2 Seas Motorsport score a season-best finish and a debut championship podium for James Cottingham and Lewis Williamson.

The #4 pairing capitalised on their best-ever qualifying result to remain in contention throughout the duration of the three-hour event at the first visit of the year to Donington Park, finally delivering the result that the pace in the early races this year have promised.

The pace of the bold yellow and red DK Engineering-branded Mercedes-AMG GT3 was, once again, extremely strong in each of the early sessions. James delivered an impressive opening qualifying run to set benchmark times for the rest of the field to beat, improving consistently throughout the session.

Lewis then took the wheel for the Pro qualifying run, and the combined laptimes secured the team the best result of the season to-date, starting from the front-row.

Restart

A committed start by James saw him take the lead around the outside of turn 1 as the 3-hour race got underway, and he set off building a gap to the chasing field. He managed this gap over the opening stint, defending position and successfully negotiating the slower GT4 traffic before a Safety Car intervention