Mills great for win number eight in second GB4 race at Silverstone

Photo: Jakob Ebrey Photography

Tom Mills took his second GB4 victory of the weekend at Silverstone in a race that finished behind the safety car.

The Kevin Mills Racing driver converted pole into the lead at the start, while Evans GP’s Cooper Webster rose two places to take second from Fortec Motorsports’ Colin Queen.

Queen tried to reclaim the position from Webster into Brooklands a couple of times, but was then passed through Maggotts and Becketts by Fox Motorsport’s Liam McNeilly, who had made a better exit from Copse.

Ruhaan Alva capitalised on the battle to snatch fourth from Queen, moving around the outside of his team-mate at Stowe. Queen tried to retake the position for several laps, eventually moving alongside into Stowe before making the move stick into Club.

Mills pulled out a five-second lead, and extended it by a further second during light drizzle before the safety car was deployed with less than five minutes remaining when VRD’s Zack Ping ended up in the gravel at Vale while trying to fend off Fortec’s Aditya Kulkarni for seventh.

The cars lined up for a potential final-lap restart, but the allotted time ran out before the cars crossed the line, with Mills winning ahead of Webster and McNeilly.

Queen was fourth ahead of Alva, with KMR’s Jack Clifford losing one place at the start to finish sixth.

Kulkarni was seventh ahead of Harry Burgoyne Jnr and Erik Evans, while Sid Smith stalled at the start and eventually came home 10th.

Race result (8 laps)