SILVERSTONE PREVIEW

This weekend sees the G50 Cup descend onto Silverstone National Circuit. There are to be three races, one on saturday and two on sunday, the last race being the cancelled race at Oulton earlier in the year. With Christian Dick sitting out of the G50 Cup, his car is going to Caterham racer Ron Johnson on his debut with the team. Tony Hughes is also making a return to the G50 Cup after sitting out the Knockhill round and Richard Sykes will also be joining him on the grid fresh from his British GT success at Silverstone last week.

Catch the guys out on track for Race 1 at 17:25 on Saturday, Race 2 at 10:10 and Race 3 at 15:55 both on Sunday. You can also catch the racing live on Sunday on ITV4.

SPEEDWORKS SUNBEAM TIGER AT MASTERS RACEDAY

This Sunday will see the Sunbeam Tiger driven by owner Neil Merry and Team Principal Christian Dick join the other Gentleman Drivers at Donington Park. Qualifying is at 11:45 and you can catch their 90 minute race will start at 16:50. This is the final Masters Raceday on the original Donington Park Circuit as it is now before the circuit closes on 7th September for construction into the new Grand Prix track for 2010.

Also at the meeting are the impressive Can-Ams, Lola Challenge and many other impressive historic sports cars.

GT4 SUCCESS FOR SPEEDWORKS AT SILVERSTONE

Last weekend saw Speedworks Motorsport enter the GT4 G50 machine of Richard Sykes into the British GT meeting at Silverstone. Having not tested on the friday, the team turned up Saturday morning for free practice which saw them 2nd quickest in the GT4 class. Qualifying, only 7 tenths behind the class leaders. Sunday morning saw the car quickest in class before the build up to the big race.

Team Principal Christian Dick was to start the 2 hour race. A fantastic start saw him move into the lead until traffic forced him off the racing line and the WFR car was able to follow them through and take the lead. Christian continuously caught the leading G50 until there was less than a second between them, however, faster traffic coming through again forced the gap to increase. After 30 minutes, it was Team WFR leading with the Speedworks machine at the hands of Christian Dick hard charging behind. The 1 hour mark saw Christian in the lead with 20 minutes still left to go of his driver stint, 90 minutes in and the car was in the hands of Richard Sykes who nearly made it out of the pitlane before the WFR car came round, he battled on in second place with only 2 tenths seperating him and Jody Firth.

The final laps saw the Speedworks machine finish second in class, having completed 76 laps over 2hours, 2 minutes and 44 seconds. A fantastic achievement considering the team had done no testing, ran with one set of tyres and only its second outing in the British GT Championship!

Speedworks will be racing this Sunday 23rd August with the Sunbeam Tiger at Donington Park for the Masters Race Series.

LATE SPEEDWORKS ENTRY TO BRITISH GT

Speedworks has put in a late entry to compete at Silverstone in the British GT Championship with the GT4 Ginetta G50 machine of Richard Sykes, co-driving will be team principal Christian Dick. Richard has recently had his G50 upgraded to GT4 spec with an endurance fuel tank and lights.

Richard Sykes on his last British GT outing came second in GT4 and also got Driver of the Weekend at Oulton Park in May.

You can catch the pair on track at 14:10 on the saturday for qualifying and at 14:25 on sunday for the 2hour feature race.

TIGER EXCELS AT BENTLEY DRIVERS CLUB MEETING SILVERSTONE

Last weekend saw Speedworks take Neil Merrys Sunbeam Tiger to Silverstone to compete in the Masters Pre '66 GTs 45 minute race on the Saturday and the Sunbeam Tigers race on the sunday as part of the Bentley Drivers Club 60th Anniversary race meeting.

Neil merry was to share the Masters race with team principal Christian Dick. They qualified in 22nd place out of a grid of 34 cars. However the race saw a fantastic drive from both and they finished in 14th. "The car is so much more improved, we're now on top of the brakes and the set up" said Christian, "however, there is always room for improvement and when we go to Donington we expect to be further up the grid again."

The Sunbeam Tigers race on sunday saw Neil qualify in 8th place, 5th in class. After a good battle in the race he maintained position and finished in 8th.

The Tiger is next out on Sunday 23rd August with the Masters for a 90 minute race!

UNEXPECTED RESULTS AT SNETTERTON

Last weekend saw the G50s resume there second half of the season at the Norfolk circuit. Speedworks were to be fielding regular drivers Tony Hughes and Richard Sykes as well as welcoming Charlie Butler-Henderson on board for his G50 debut. It also saw Team Principal Christian Dick step down from racing his G50 in the Championship in order to concentrate on running the team. However, at the last minute, Richard Sykes was unable to race due to business commitments and so he put Christian in to race the car.

There were to be three race over the weekend. Having put the car on the front row in qualifying for all three races, Dick took an impressive 2nd place and fastest lap in the mysportzone.co.uk car in race 1. Dick commented: "Second is a great result and we had a bit more up our sleeve too. I had a knock into Sear on the first lap so the car wasn't 100 per cent, it was still great to drive though. There's no pressure for me this weekend, with Richard unable to race the opportunity arose for me to step into the car and it's been good to show we can be on the pace and do a very good job."

Charlie and Tony finshed a fantastic 10th and 11th respectively. The second race again saw Dick finish in second place however a spin in race 3 saw Dick fall down the pack into 7th place.