BRITISH GT PODIUM AT SPA FRANCORCHAMPS!
British GT, Trackspeed Porsche 997 GT3R
4/5th June 2010
Qualifying
Olly Bryant shared a 2010 Porsche 997 GT3R with Oliver Morley in the 2.5 hour GT race at Spa Francorchamps. Olly had tested the car in March but Oliver Morley had not driven the car before. Practice was a 1 hour session with the idea of acclimatising Morley to the car, and for Bryant to get a setup on the car. Unfortunately, there was an electrical problem that kept causing the car to cut out so after several attempts to fix the car, the team found the cause, a faulty connection in one of the engine loom plugs. It was too late however, and the 2 drivers only managed 1 flying lap each at the end of the session.
They had to go straight into qualifying with only 1 lap behind them. The qualifying session was used to get Morley up to speed in the car. He went out first and drove for half an hour to get up to speed in the car. With just over 20 minutes to go, the car was pitted and Bryant got in to set a time.
Unfortunately, the set up on the car was not right and the car had terrible understeer, Olly managed a lap time of 2m29.283s which lined the car up 9th on the grid. This was disappointing, but the team soon found from looking through the data that the diff had been locking up in the corners, pushing the car on and causing the serious understeer and killing the lap time.
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World Sportscar Masters Win for Olly Bryant! |
World Sportscar Masters Win for Olly Bryant!
The Masters Historic Festival
Brands Hatch GP Circuit 30-31st May 2010
Qualifying
Olly was racing a 1969 Lola T70 Mk3b and claimed repeated his 2009 perdormance of claiming pole position with a 1m31.455s lap, just over 0.9s quicker than the later Abarth PA01 of Richard Evans.
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Heritage Grand Touring Car Challenge |
Thruxton 8th May 2010
A tragic accident cast a shadow over the Thruxton circuit as GT cup race Jeff Leadley was killed in a crash during the first GT cup race.
Olly Bryant put the Morgan in pole position by 0.2s from John Dickson with a 1m26.254s lap. Racing was suspended for the rest of the day whilst Police investigations were carried out into the Leadley accident.
Everyone’s thoughts are with Jeff Leadley’s family and friends. |
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Road America 15-16th May 2010 |
Road America 15-16th May 2010
More success for Olly Bryant Stateside!
200 Mile Class win!
Olly Bryant shared a Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 with his father Grahame in a 200 mile endurance race at the famous Road America circuit.
Qualifying was spent learning the circuit and Olly started the car in the race. Olly made a great start and got the car well up the order and pitted at 40 minutes for fuel and to hand over to Grahame.
Grahame had a good stint learning the car and circuit all the time and keeping out of trouble on the fast sweeps and heavy braking zones of the circuit before pitting after 30 minutes to hand back to Olly. Olly pushed on hard in the second stint and got into the class lead before easing off to bring the car to the flag, 10th overall on the 32 car grid and first in class, recording a fastest lap of 2m.32.891s.
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Silverstone GP Circuit 18th April 2010 |
Silverstone GP Circuit 18th April 2010
Pole, Win and Fastest lap for Olly Bryant!
Qualifying
This was the first time the drivers had used the amended version of the Silverstone GP Circuit but Olly had gained some usefull track knowledge when he tested for Trackspeed at the British GT Media day in there new Porache 997 GT3R earlier in the year. This proved useful as he firmly planted the Morgan on pole position with a 2m.05.995s lap.
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