Building on last year’s debut visit, the Blancpain GT Sprint championship made it’s second visit to the glorious Brands Hatch GP circuit, bring some of the worlds best sportscar drivers in the worlds best GT3 machines.

With this event becoming one of annual headline events at the legendary circuit, crowds flocked to the track to enjoy the weekends racing. The WRT Audis quickly asserted themselves as the dominate force with their team cars all in the top-10 in free practice one, but it was the Nissan GT3, piloted by Brit, Craig Dolby who managed to top the second free practice session in front of the home crowd.

Dolby would continue this strong form with team mate, Sean Walkinshaw, as they pulled off a madden podium in the qualifying race. But it was the #1 WRT Audi of Robin Frijns and Laurens Vanthoor who would go to dominate both the qualifying and main race, with the #77 BMW Sport Brazil Z4 of Atila Abreu and Valdeno Brito Filho finishing as runner up in both races via battles with the Nissan and Attempto Mclaren of Kevin Estre.

Home favourites, Dolby and Walkinshaw would fall to finish sixth in the main race, but they had plenty to smile about from their weekends showing.

An event headlines with a series like Blancpain, the support categories were packed full of national club races, all hoping they can prove themselves in front of the capacity crowds.

GT Cup would play second fiddle, but would bring a huge 39 car grid full of Ferraris, Porsche, BMW, Astons and much more – One Aston of which, was being driven by TV baker, Paul Hollywood. Running with the super successful Beechdean AMR team, partnered with British GT champion, Jonny Adam, Hollywood would go on to claim class honours in the one hour endurance race on the Saturday.

As for local interest, the Mazda MX-5 support races saw Longfield based, ex-kart racer, Stuart Symonds claim a hard through victory in race one, after starting on pole. With the top five changing position through every lap turned, Symonds would eventually lead the field over the line to claim victory in only his second ever car racing meeting.

Symonds second race would see him start mid-pack in the busy 40 car field, but due to the all-out action that MX-5 racing provides, he could only progress to sixteenth position.

After another successful visit for the SRO run, Blancpain GT championship, the SRO shall be back to Brands Hatch at the start of August for the hugely popular British GT championship, but before that, the Blancpain circus moves to Silverstone for the Endurance series in a couple weeks time. Another chance to catch the incredible machines in action if you missed out this time.