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GTSCC Castle Combe - 20th September - Podium for Olly & Michael

Sunday 21st September 2025

For the second year running, Olly partnered car owner Michael O’Sullivan in his Lotus Elite in the GT2 class for the 90 minute GT and Sports Car Cup encounter at Castle Combe. GT2 pacesetters Michael O’Sullivan/Olly Bryant (Elite), both powered by 1216cc Climax FWE engines, were closely matched, Bryant’s 1:22.384 (80.84mph) securing class pole, almost two seconds inside Rick Bourne’s TVR Grantura class record. The GT2 race went down to the wire, for a 20-second penalty for a yellow flag infringement, left local husband-and-wife Mike Thorne/Sarah Bennett-Baggs (Austin-Healey 100M) a scant 0.695s ahead of the fast-closing Olly Bryant, finishing Michael O’Sullivan’s Ecurie Shirlee Lotus Elite. Had not a Cobra, off at Quarry corner, brought the chequered flag out two laps early, Bryant would surely have wriggled past.

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