Sims wins Pirelli-supplied Spa 24 Hours for BMWAlexander Sims became the first British driver for 21 years to win the Spa 24 Hours last weekend when he triumphed for BMW.
Sims shared a Rowe Racing M6 GT3 with fellow BMW works drivers Maxime Martin of Belgium and Philipp Eng of Austria, triumphing by nearly two minutes over the opposition in the race which is part of the Blancpain GT Series, exclusively supplied by Pirelli.
“The 24 Hours of Spa has been a very special race to me since the start of my career in motorsport, and I never expected to win it after just four years of GT racing,” said Sims.
This weekend, Sims heads to Snetterton in Norfolk to return to duties in the Pirelli-equipped British GT Championship, where he is racing a Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 alongside Liam Griffin.
Also competing at Spa was BBC Top Gear presenter Chris Harris, driving a Bentley Continental GT3 for Team Parker Racing. The car lost considerable time during an incident-filled race, but was the final classified finisher in 54th overall and 10th in the AM Cup.
Lynn back to winning ways in Pirelli-backed GP2Alex Lynn made a strong return to form with his second win of the GP2 Series season in the Hockenheim sprint race.
Williams Formula 1 development driver Lynn finished Saturday’s feature race in fifth place on the road, although a penalty relegated him to seventh. This put him second on the grid for the sprint race and he took the lead immediately and led from start to finish.
Oliver Rowland battled with Lynn in both races, inheriting fifth place in the feature race and then using a good start to the sprint race to push Lynn for the lead, though he slipped back to another fifth-place finish before the end.
It was a luckless weekend for Jordan King, with two bits of contact leaving him 15th in the feature race. He was then 11th in the sprint race.
Going into the summer break before the next race at Spa on August 27/28, Rowland sits fifth in the standings – only 14 points off the lead – with King seventh and Lynn ninth.
Hughes scores GP3 win with Pirelli in double for British DAMS driversJake Hughes scored his first win in the GP3 Series at Hockenhem, making it a double for British drivers at the DAMS team on Sunday morning together with Alex Lynn’s GP2 victory.
After finishing eighth in the first race, Hughes started on reverse grid pole for race two. He lost the lead at the start but he soon regained it and led until the chequered flag.
Fellow British driver Jack Aitken came through to finish second, scoring his first GP3 podium. He was sixth in race one.
After his win at the Hungaroring, Matt Parry finished the first race in third place, one place ahead of Alex Albon, who had claimed pole position in qualifying.
Jake Dennis was due to start alongside Albon on the front row but his car got stuck in neutral on the grid, forcing him to start from the pits. He worked his way up to 12th in race one, then took sixth in race two ahead of Parry.
Albon retired from race two after he was hit by a rival on the first lap but he is second in the standings, just three points off the lead. Parry is fourth, Hughes is sixth, Dennis ninth and Aitken 10th.
Coming up next week: The BRDC British F3 Championship reaches its penultimate round at Snetterton
