Oliver Bryant Racing

Oliver Bryant won the Cloth Cap race for historic sports and gt cars in a Lotus XV shared with his father Grahame. The car had a misfire in qualifying and the timekeeping system was down so the car lined up 26th on the grid in all the confusion.

British GT star Oliver Bryant took victory in his first sportscar race in a Jade Prototype driving with the car’s owner Howard Spooner.

Oliver had never driven the car before but instantly connected with the car and qualified it on the front row of the grid with a 1m04.7s lap around the Norfolk circuit.

Howard Spooner took the start and set off in chase of James Richards in a much higher spec car. Howard was loosing touch slightly then suffered a spin when the brakes got hot. He pitted at 30 mins with a 45s deficit to the lead car.

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).