British GT – Spa-Francorchamps – Saturday Free Practice
All Present – Still Damp
On a damp and only slowly drying surface there was some good news for the British GT Championship, with both the #169 Eclipse TVR and #177 Tech 9 Porsche pronounced fit and well after their coming together yesterday.

In the three GT classes, behind the Guest Class Gillet, it was initially a Mosler vs Mosler scrap, Thomas Erdos in the #133 Balfe Motorsport car trading times with Martin Short in the #122 Rollcentre Racing MT900R. But Short had a moment out on the circuit which ended up with the borrowed Mosler buried in a gravel trap. Erdos took full advantage and so did Rob Barff, the #192 TVR grabbing second in the British GT GTO class

In GTO Steve Hyde pulled out all the stops in the #127 CDL T400R to snatch second spot from the #192 TVR, but with the track drying both DeWalt cars improved dramatically next time round with Barff grabbing the provisional class pole with a 2:41.1 just ahead of Mike Jordan in the #191 car. Not to be outdone, Jordan improved on the final lap of the session, #191 grabbing the advantage and 12th overall with a 2:40.9.

Calum Lockie popped up towards the very end of the session in the unrestricted Marcos Mantara to (unsurprisingly) grab the best GT time of the session, a 2:34.985 – in just four laps (two flying, one out, one in). The Mantara has "650 bhp" without restrictors, and should touch 292 kph at the end of the Kemmel Straight, in the dry.

The GT Cup battle was dominated early on by the championship winning #76 Porsche, Patrick Pearce up into the top 20 overall and humbling several GTO cars in the process. By the end of the session though it was the Glenvarigill Ferrari that took the provisional class ‘pole’ – 2:48.315. Hector Lester found his car "very forgiving in the wet" and he hopes it stays wet.

Apparently though, the times from this session don’t count for the grid – although they do for the SCC cars.