Oliver Bryant Racing

Irish racers Jackie Cochrane and Stephen Colbert claimed an impressive double victory as the Charterhouse Heritage GT Car Challenge provided some of the best supporting action to the A1 GP feature races at Brands Hatch (28/29 April).

There was a brand new look to the Tech 9 squad for rounds 3 and 4 of the 2007 British GT Championship at Donington Park.

It wasn’t a new livery or a new team member but rather a different tint to the existing driver squad, Oliver Bryant and Matt Harris having laid down a bet pre-season that they would dye their hair blonde if and when the team won a race – Race 2 at Oulton Park delivered that result, so it was two bottles into the shower and a new Nordic look for Messrs Bryant and Harris.

Towards the end of the afternoon, another tremendous field of cars lined up for the 45-minute two-driver race. Lloyd set the pace again from the start, from Bussell, Peter Hall (Chevrolet Camaro), Oliver Bryant (Morgan Plus8) and Jenkinson. But fresh from competing in the British GT race, Bryant quickly picked his way past his rivals and, after going side by side into Redgate with Lloyd on lap six, took the lead into the Old Hairpin.

Oliver posted an impressive time of 1m43.7s to place the car 3rd on the grid for race 1. Matt Harris posted an equally respectable time of 1m43.9s to line the car up 6th for race 2.