Once again, the timing screens for Race 2 showed Chris Bingham as the race leader post pit-stops, and the winner, but the reality was that, as before, Dom Malone and Adam Smalley were the actual victors in the Amspeed Porsche 991.

Birthday girl Asha Silva celebrated with the Cup Class win

With several withdrawals for various reasons, it was good to see Ash Woodman’s TCR Cupra join the back of the grid after some sterling work by the small EDF team to get the car fixed-up during the short break between races, and Malone, now the sole Challenge Class runner, led away from pole when the red lights went out, but the race had only gone one lap before the Safety Car was deployed, as Josh Tomlinson’s MacG Racing Mazda had clashed with the Seat Supercopa of Chris Hayes, and the Seat was stranded at the Complex, requiring recovery. The caution was lifted with 32 minutes to go, but almost immediately there was contact between Marco Anastasi’s Ginetta and Andrew Dawber’s BMW – the BMW continued unsullied but the Ginetta limped back, slipping and sliding with suspension damage, to the pits for attention. Malone held the lead, with David Fielder’s BMW a few seconds behind, and Nathan Wells’ BMW GTR had passed Chris Bingham’s Ginetta for third place, while there was an internecine Team BRIT battle going on, Bobby Trundley in the BMW 240i trying to lay some manners on Noah Cosby in the team’s McLaren. Wells had moved up to second place by the time the pit window opened, and assumed the lead for a few laps when Dom Malone pitted the Amspeed Porsche for pro-driver Adam Smalley to close the race. Once the field settled after the stops, once again the timing screens showed Chris Bingham’s Ginetta in the lead, and Chris Murphy’s BMW second, clearly the timing glitch from the first race still apparent, and Smalley now being the de facto race leader.

BMWs through the Club chicane

A grassy excursion for Nick Casey’s Ginetta let Dave May’s similar car through to the class lead, but it would be short-lived, as May was called in to take a 24-second penalty for a pit stop infringement, and then Casey, too was awarded a drive-through penalty for a different pit infringement. James Harrison, having taken over the High Row Ginetta from dad Steve, sniffed the Trophy class podium, and was dukeing it out with Chris Murphy’s BMW for third place, nose-to-tail and side-by-side as the race came to a close. And so it ended – Adam Smalley took the flag, a nice round 30 laps of untroubled racing for the Amspeed Porsche started by Dom Malone, continuing the quite incidental Britcar “one venue, one winner” 2025 situation (Gambrell/Lloyd Silverstone, Grimes/Mowlem Snetterton, Malone/Smalley Thruxton) .

Nathan Wells bagged second place and the GT Class win in the Woodrow BMW GTR, responding to Chris Bingham’s late-race advances in the “Hesketh” liveried Raceworks Ginetta GT4, impeccable performances from both drivers, with returnee Wells awarded the Rowe Driver of the Day trophy. David Fielder had a more conservative race than before in the SGM BMW E36 , plus he had a longer pit-stop success adjustment, and he filled the final GT podium spot, ahead of Martin Addison in the Aston Martin Vantage, who’s usual solid performance earned him the Sunoco Driver of the Day award, while the fraught race for the Team BRIT McLaren of Caleb McDuff and Noah Cosby came to an end before the flag fell. Callum Bates was really on it towards the end of the race, but there was no real threat to his fourth place overall and the Trophy class win in the Woodrow BMW E46, his nearest competition, the Brookspeed/UBIQ BMW M2CSR, was three-quarters of a minute down the road, while James Harrison achieved the coveted final podium spot in the High Row Ginetta after the sensational battle with Chris Murphy’s BMW, just 0.027 seconds separating them as they crossed the line, a terrific performance from the younger Harrison earning him the Tesouro watch award.

Dave May and Mark Skeats landed the Ginetta Class win

Fifth overall, and claiming the TCR Class victory, was the TSR Performance Cupra of Fynn Jones and Rob Ellick, which had found cars from other classes to dice with for most of the race, but runner-up Darren Ball’s Cupra was deemed to have some non-compliance, and suffered post-race exclusion, elevating Ash Woodman’s Gen2 Cupra, a fitting reward for the small EDF squad after their work to get the car re-fettled following the first race issues. The Ginetta class was an up-and-down affair, with penalties and problems for all – Dave May and Mark Skeats took the win in the 118 Rescue car after their 24-second penalty , but second-placed Nick Casey came to a halt out on the circuit in the closing laps of the race, and despite Datum Motorsport repairing the GTA started by Marco Anastasi, and Maurizio Sciglio taking the flag, they were 15 laps adrift and deemed as unclassified. Birthday girl Asha Silva celebrated with the Cup Class victory in the Team BRIT BMW M240i, after Bobby Trundley’s spirited opening stint, and Craig Fleming gave them a run for their money in the TSR Performance Audi TT started by Mark Jones, but was thwarted by a pit stop to fix an errant front splitter, and a massive post-race penalty for pit-lane speeding.