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Leo Voyazides/Simon Hadfield secured honours in the Gentlemen Drivers Pre-66 GT Championship race to end the season five points behind new champions Keith Ahlers/Billy Bellinger. In a 90-minute thriller, a gaggle of snaking AC Cobras dispute the lead, with Voyazides/Hadfield coming out on top from Joaquin Folch who teamed up with young gun Ben Mitchell to bring his Jaguar E-type home second on corrected times after Andrew Haddon/Martin Stretton (AC Cobra) were given a 20 second penalty for pitting outside the mandatory window. That dropped them to third but they fared better than fellow Cobra-tamers Jason Wright/Andy Wolfe who were excluded for overtaking under yellow flags. Ahlers/Bellinger took ninth overall and a class win to secure the championship.

Driving an SLR.

Great news. Well done Keith and Billy.

Yes, well done Keith & Billy, a fantastic achievement in a major race series and stopped the Voyazides/Hadfield monopoly on titles. In fact they had it all wrapped up before Jerez so a great series of wins for Keith this year (he will surely need a new trophy room what with the Morgan Challenge wins as well...........).

All three SLR's are racing this weekend in Portimao in the GTSCC series where we will be proudly running the number "1" as last years champions. Maybe we should pass the "1's" on to Keith if anything could ever prise him away from "29" in exchange for some champagne?

In between winning races Keith took time off to give a talk at the monthly Marshal's Social Evening in Silverstone village last month, a most interesting and amusing evening ensued. I can vouch for that fact that the double Champion can talk just as well as he drives.

Congratulations to both Keith and Billy on a fabulous season, on both the driving and preparation front.

John; Can we assume that you will want that number 1 back next year?

I suppose it just possible that I may see a few of you lot at the Birkett.

Hi Bob,

will see you at the Birkett,
let's hope it's dry!