SILVERSTONE
BARC
25-26 MARCH
The British Endurance Championship opened on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit last weekend with a win on his GT3 debut for Claude Bovet, paired with Pro partner David McDonald in Blackthorn’s Mercedes-AMG.
The three-hour contest had a lower than anticipated entry and was a two-horse race for overall honours, but an almost race-long tussle, with momentum swinging between the eventual winners and Audi R8 pairing Peter Erceg and Marcus Clutton, made it an absorbing contest. Am drivers Erceg and Bovet were separated by just 0.05 seconds in the 10-minute quickfire qualifying session on a drying track. Bovet moved ahead
