Neary's Father and Son Podium at Donington
15th July 2021
After the relative tranquil passage from pole to podium at Silverstone, the racing couldn't have been any further from this at Donington Park for round 3 of the Intelligent Money GT Championship. Ian Loggie and Yelmar Buurman posted the best collective times in qualifying to take pole ahead of Michael Igoe and Phil Keen in the WPI Motorsport Lambourghini.
From the rolling start however, the ambitions of those on the front of the grid unravelled. Michael Igoe was tagged on Redgates on the first lap, which also accounted for a couple of other contenders, and for some time the safety car led the cars round until the stricken number 18 was removed from the track.
From the rolling start however, the ambitions of those on the front of the grid unravelled. Michael Igoe was tagged on Redgates on the first lap, which also accounted for a couple of other contenders, and for some time the safety car led the cars round until the stricken number 18 was removed from the track.
Staggeringly from 10th on the grid following a disk brake failure which took the front side of the car out on Saturday, Richard and Sam Neary found themselves in second place behind Ian Loggie, before scoring past following another safety car outing, and from that point pretty much controlled the race to take the podium, and a first father / son victory in the race history.
The GT4 category wasn't short of incident either, with cars 15, 4 and 61 coming togethe following a nose to tail exit from Goddards, and the Century Motorsport teams of Will Burns and Gus Burton took their second podium to follow up on their Brands Hatch success with Chris Salkeld and Andrew Gordon Colebrook taking second. Fox Motorsport kept themselves out of trouble for the duration of the race and took third place overall to finish a race where only 12 of the original starters manage to complete the race.
