We are used to corkscrew plots in British GT, and particularly in its showpiece Silverstone 500. Yet all that have come before may struggle to beat the one in last Sunday’s event, which in the end was won by Shaun Balfe and Adam Smalley in their Garage 59 McLaren 720S.
This script had one of those plots where an apparently fruitful decision made by certain protagonists in an early scene turns out, in a late dramatic plot twist, to be the very thing that causes their downfall.
The Silverstone 500, lasting three hours and without a pit window, is a rare case of
