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    Simmons returns to the top with GB3 double

    Aug 19, 2021 4 minutes
    STEVE WHITFIELD

    SILVERSTONE

    MSVR

    14-15 AUGUST

    Ayrton Simmons returned to the top step of the GB3 Championship podium with a double victory at Silverstone last weekend. The Chris Dittmann Racing driver was the pre-season title favourite, but has endured a difficult season and triumphed for the first time since winning the reversed-grid race at the same venue in June.

    In-form Ollie Bearman beat Simmons to race-one pole in a rain-affected qualifying, but conceded the lead to his rival at the start, before dramatically retiring on the

    second lap when his left-rear wheel departed through Copse Corner. Debutant Jonathan Browne, who qualified

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