Century Motorsport Ginetta G50 team raced at Knockhill at the weekend with excellent results and quality racing from both their drivers. After the trials at Snetterton the team was confident that they would be competetive on the Scottish circuit. Friday testing was wet - very wet and in the first session both cars went well with Nathan Freke quickest and Benji Hetherington 7th, having not seen the track prior to the test day. Unfortunately an electrical gremlin caused Benji to miss part of the 2nd session sharing Nathan’s car in the afternoon - however Nathan posted the quickest time in that session to gain a start on his rivals.

Saturday qualifying was a slippery affair with both cars on wet tyres on a fast drying track, Nathan managed to grab all 3 pole positions and Benji taking 7th, 8th and 7th. The first race on Saturday afternoon was on slick tyres on a track with some damp patches, Nathan made a good start and had a fairly uneventful race easily holding off Breeze who struggled for pace all weekend. Benji had a mid grid tussle with 3 other cars to eventually take 5th place - his best result so far in the series.

Sunday racing looked to be a mixed weather affair as all the cars arrived at the grid with slicks on and after the parade lap had to quickly change to wets after a downpour. The cars slither off the line and it becomes a repeat performance of race one as Nathan eases out to yet another comfortable victory. Benji starting from grid 8 had another very good race eventually finishing 6th after a scrap with 3 other drivers.

Sunday’s second race was the only one where the drivers knew what the tyres would be as it was conducted on a dry track with sunny conditions. Nathan again started on pole and led off to eke out a 1.2 second lead before the tyres seemed to go off allowing 2nd placed Frank Wrathall to close him down to 0.4 second gap when on lap 19 Nathan made a rare error to spin out after clipping a kerb exiting the chicane. Fortunately he was far enough ahead to be able to rejoin in 4th place closing down Breeze in 3rd to 0.4seconds from 2.8 seconds in 3 laps by the chequered flag, but good championship points. Benji had a fantastic start and was up into 5th off the line and pressuring Breeze for 4th whilst fighting off the attentions of Tom Sharp behind him. Once released from Sharp’s pressure Benji easily caught Breeze and on lap 9 he made a super move at the end of the straight to pass, unfortunately although the move was clean enough the car could not get slowed down enough and Benji made a vist to the gravel trap. Dissapointing but recording the 3rd fastest lap of the race was a consolation.

Nathan has come away with an improved Championship lead and Benji with some major experience ready for the next round at Silverstone on the 29th /30th August.