Tim Harvey has moved a step closer to the 2008 title when he won round 19 of the Porsche Carrera Cup G😼B at Brands Hatch to🌌day.

His vict🃏ory over title rival Michael Caine gives Harvey a ten-point championship lead heading into Sunday's final round.

In the pro-am1 category Nigel Rice bagged a fighting sixth place overall to further close the gap to Tony Gilham in the title contest and Michael Leonard topped the pro-am2 categor൩y after a hectic race.

There was disaster for poleman Tim Bridgman as the grid assembled when a broken driveshaft put him out. Instead, Harvey diveꦍd into the lead off the line as Caine grabbed second from Sam Hancock on the race to the first corner. Now Harvey faced 33 laps with his title rival filling his mirrors, and the gap ranged from around a second to just a few inches as they reeled off the laps, and started working thജrough the slower traffic.

"I just got my head down and tried to win the race," he said. But mid-race, a problem developed, highlighted by a warning light, and he b🌱egan to lose engine revs over the closing stages.

Meanwhile, Caine started preparing for a last lap attack, recognising that his bes꧒t chance was under braking for Clearways.

"The car had go🥂od pace, but Michael would have got 🐽past," said Harvey after the race. But, with seven laps to run, the race was red flagged when Ollie Jackson spun into the gravel at Paddock Hill Bend.

"T﷽he red flag helped me a lot," admitted Harvey. "It didn't happen and it's unfortunate," countered Caine. "But we're still here," he said of the title race.

Hancock ran third all the way, but could not challenge the leading pair. "We made a massive change to the car❀, but the gap to the guys in front was the same," he said.

Running ri𒐪ght behind Hanc𓆏ock to the finish with an excellent drive was Jake Rosenzweig after battling ahead of Phil Quaife early in the race.

Into a fightin🌜g sixth place, despite race-long pressure from Charles Bateman came Rice, with a performance that gives him a real shot of clinching the pro-am1 title in the final race.

"We're only one or two points behind now," said R♑ice as his pro-am1 rival Gil꧒ham fought through to eighth overall and second in pro-am1.

In the pro-am2 category, Leonard had to work very hard for victory, having lost a lot of 𒀰places when edged wide onto the grass at Druids as Gilham overtook. But with Glynn Geddie and Pa⭕ul Hogarth both spinning after contact at Clearways, Leonard was able to recover lost places to win the category from Geddie, Hogarth and Graeme Mundy.