PCCGB Knockhill: Harper masters treacherous conditions for second win

JTR's Dan Harper clinches his second Porsche Carrera Cup GB race victory of the 2018 season after overcoming the wet cond♎itions ahead of Dino Zamparelli at Knockhill.

Having started the opening race from pole position, Harper had t♔o fight his way back into a race winning 🐽position after dropping behind his JTR stablemate Lewis Plato at the end of the sixth lap.

Harper masters treacherous conditions for race one win

JTR's Dan Harper clinches his second Porsche Carrera Cup GB race v🍒ictory of the 2018 season after overcoming the wet cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚonditions ahead of Dino Zamparelli at Knockhill.

Having started the opening race from pole positi⛄on, Harper had to fight his way back into a race winning position after dropping behind his JTR stablemate Lewis Plato at the end of the sixth lap.

𒀰In a brief moment of confusion, Harper found himself held up by the backmarker Steve Gales coming out of the final hairpin, which allowed Plato to briefly poꦯwer into the lead before the safety car came out on the following lap.

While Plato l🦄ed the way as the race resumed on the 14th lap of the race, Harper made his intentions clear and muscled his way back into the lead with a forceful move on his team mate at Clark corner.

That proved to be the decisive move of the race, as Plato began to slip back into the clutches of championship leader Zamparelli. Plato's race ultimately unravelled whe⭕n the JTR driver spun out of second place on lap 18, after losing the rear of his 911 GT3 cup car at the final hairpin.

That promoted Zamparelli into second, where the Redline driver extended his points lead over Tio Ellinas, who finished a handful of se🎃conds back to complete the rostrum order in third.

“Unbelievable! I couldn’t be happier. I got a great start and was able to control the race, before uꦆnfortunately I had an issue with a back marker, had to brake on the straight and dropped to second," said the race winner.

“I didn’t panic, the safety car helped me get the tyres bac🅺k up to temperature and I could make my move after the restart. Our pace was great from there and I’m ecstatic to take the 🍨win!”

Ellinas could count 🔯himself lucky to finish on the podium after a brief off at Clark corner almost෴ put the former F1 test-driver out of the race with just eight laps to go.

Failing to fully capitalise on Ellinas' error, George Gamble and Tom Wrigley completed the top-five order, ahead of Pl🍃ato, who eventually settled for sixth.

Despite trailing Dan Vaughn for much of the race, Seb Perez took the Pro-Am category victory ahead of the Motorbase Performance𒉰 driver, with Dan Welch completing the Pro-Am podium a position behind, ninth overall.

Peter Mangion took another Am category win after Peter Kyle-Henney fell off the track at the very end o🐭f the race.

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