Local hero Damien Faulkner had to settle for third in the GTC class at today’s British GT race at Mondello Park having initially led the class while lying second overall.

Faulkner initially built up a seven second lead before a pace car period intervened to wipe out his lead. The Trakspeed team decided to take their mandatory pit stop during he pace car period and when the race restarted they were still second overall but in a four car battle for the place.

Faulkners team mate Hooker allowed the very quick GT3 Lotus past in order to concentrate on keeping the GT3 class lead. In the final two laps the constant pressure told as he first lost second in class to the Team Tiger Marcos and then on the run to the flag on the last lap was beaten for second by 0.027 of a second.

Faulkner was happy to get to the finish today following Saturday’s retirement but was disappointed to lose out on the class win having built up a healthy lead prior to the caution period.

Speaking after today’s race Faulkner said, “I have to thank David Ashburn for offering me the drive this weekend, it was really useful to get some mileage during the month long break in the Porsche Carrera Cup schedule and I was really happy to be able to help him out. I also want to thank Rory Fordyce and Piers Masarati of Trakspeed as the team have done a real good job all weekend. I was delighted to be able to help them to a podium finish but we are all a bit disappointed to have lost the lead and then dropped to third.”

Faulkners next event will be the Porsche Carrera Cup at Croft on July 21st & 22nd.