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Brit GT: One-Two for Scuderia Ecosse
by Arthur Beattie

1.6.05

Race 1 (Saturday 21 May)

Both Scuderia Ecosse cars were given drive-through penalties in the first race at Knockhill for changing tyres and drivers at the same time. Despite the penalty, the two cars of Kinch / Kirkaldy and Mullen/ Niarchos secured podium finishes.

In GT3 Marco Attard and Nick Adams secured second place in class in the Damax Ferrari.

Posn.		Class	Dvrs	Team	Tipo
O/A	Class	Class	Dvrs	Team	Tipo
2	2	GT2	Kinch/Kirkaldy	Scuderia Ecosse	360GTC
3	3	GT2	Mullen/Niarchos	Scuderia Ecosse	360GTC
9	2	GT3	Attard/Adams	Damax	360/Ch
12	5	GT3	Hulford/Smyth	Damax	360/Ch
13	6	GT3	Burton/Flux	JMH	360/Ch
18	11	GT3	Lester/Simonsen	UCB	360/Ch

Race 2 (Sunday 22 May)

Scuderia Ecosse secured a one-two at the twisty circuit, with Nathan Kinch and Andrew Kirkaldy scoring a clean start-to-finish win. Team mates Tim Mullen and Chris Niarchos started the race from second position. Early on, Mullen ran wide coming out of Seat corner, which saw him dropping back to fifth position. After the pit stops, Niarchos managed to fight his way back through the field and finished the race in second place.

In GT3, Miles Hulford and Jamie Smyth finished third to secure their second podium finish of the 2005 season.

Posn.		Class	Dvrs	Team	Tipo
O/A	Class	Class	Dvrs	Team	Tipo
1	1	GT2	Kinch/Kirkaldy	Scuderia Ecosse	360GTC
2	2	GT2	Mullen/Niarchos	Scuderia Ecosse	360GTC
9	3	GT3	Hulford/Smyth	Damax	360/Ch
11	5	GT3	Attard/Adams	Damax	360/Ch
12	6	GT3	Lester/Simonsen	UCB	360/Ch
14	8	GT3	Burton/Flux	JMH	360/Ch