Sutton completes perfect Porsche weekend
Sportsdesk • Published 12 May 2011 09:30
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JAMES Sutton completed a perfect weekend in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Thruxton when he won round six to take a 19-point lead into the five-week spring break in the calendar.
Sutton, who drives for Reading team SAS/Redline, again converted pole position into a first lap lead despite pressure from Euan Hankey.
Over the first-half of the race, Hankey tracked Sutton, but as the race moved into the later stages, Hankey knew he was in tyre trouble.
"The rear tyres just went away," he said of the punishing Thruxton track surface. "Then I had a big moment with a backmarker at Goodwood and lost two seconds in one lap."
Instead of chasing Sutton, Hankey now had to focus his attention on maintaining his spot and Sutton reeled off the remaining laps to complete a double win and extend his early points' lead.
"Over the course of the weekend I was really starting to find the limit of the car," he said of the latest 450bhp 911GT3 Cup. "I'm very, very pleased with the weekend."
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