Taylor recovers from pitlane start to grab another GB4 win at Silverstone

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Fortec Motorsports’ Jack Taylor scored his second straight GB4 win as changeable weather mixed up the order in race two at Silverstone.

Despite qualifying on pole, Taylor was one of many to begin the race from the pitlane as conditions changed moments before the start.

Light rain fell as drivers headed to the grid but, with the circuit still dry, everyone opted for slick tyres. But the rain intensified on the formation lap, leaving the circuit partially wet.

While most of the field dived into the pits to fit wet tyres, Arden’s Ava Dobson and Graham Brunton Racing’s Mayer Deonarine stayed on slicks and lined up on the grid.

Dobson remained ahead of Deonarine at the start, but the latter fought his way past into Stowe on lap one for the lead.

Elite Motorsport’s Alex Kattoulas beat Taylor out of the pitlane initially, with the pair well clear of the rest of the wet-shod runners, but Taylor swept around the outside at Stowe to grab third.

Taylor ovecame a 13-second deficit in the space of one lap to pick off Dobson for second, and it took him just a few more corners to reel in Deonarine before taking the lead at Club.

Kattoulas soon passed Dobson as well, but then lost control on a kerb at Stowe and slammed backwards into the tyre barriers.

That resulted in the safety car being deployed and, while Dobson dived into the pits to switch to wets, Deonarine stayed out.

There was time for one more lap once racing action resumed. With his tyres having lost temperature, Deonarine was immediately swamped and he was then involved in a collision which caused him to stop with damage yards after the finish.

Taylor controlled the final lap to finish three seconds clear, while his team-mate Thomas Ingram Hill was shuffled back to fourth two corners from home by Hillspeed’s Leandro Juncos and Douglas Motorsport’s Arjen Kraling – the latter taking his first car racing podium.

KMR Sport’s Alex O’Grady was just 0.092s behind Ingram Hill in fifth, with Isaac Phelps sixth ahead of Fortec’s Luca Magnussen and his Elite team-mate Ary Bansal.

Douglas duo Enzo Hallmann and Dayton Coulthard completed the top 10, while Hillspeed’s points leader matched his race one with result in 11th.

Race results (7 laps)