Damien Faulkner and Ryan Hooker were robbed of victory in round six of the British GT Championship by a failed differential on their Trakspeed Porsche 911.

Hooker led the class from the off and sat in third place overall when he handed over to Faulkner just before half distance. Faulkner rejoined in seventh place but when the pit stops were completed he was back into third place.Two laps into his stint he began to slow as the car became quite smoky. Two laps later having dropped down the order the Trakspeed car was in the pits with a broken differential and was out of the race.

The team were disappointed for Faulkner and Hooker but were running strongly enough with their other cars to hold onto third overall and first and third in the GTC class.

“We are really disappointed as we had a huge lead in the class when I took over and were looking at third place overall” said Faulkner. “All we can do now is look forward to tomorrow and another front row start which hopefully we can convert into a class win and maybe if it rains an overall victory. I have to thank the Trakspeed team for providing us with such a quick car and I’m delighted that they had such a good result with their other drivers. Hopefully I can repay them with a strong finish tomorrow”.

Faulkner will start tomorrows round seven of the championship, which takes place at 2:00pm, from second on the grid before handing the Porsche over to Hooker.