European GT Academy 2011 champion Jann Mardenborough and his teammate Alex Buncombe were back in action last weekend, competing at Snetterton in the latest round of the 2012 British GT Championship.
Initially, the event was off to a poor start, with the team forced to retire the car from the first of two races after contact with a Porsche. For the second race, a drive-through penalty resulting from an illegal pit stop saw RJN Motorsports team near the back of the grid.
Challenged by their unfortunate circumstances, Jann and Alex put on an incredibly quick performance, bringing their Nissan GT-R all the way up into third position when the checkered flag fell.
“Who knows what would have happened if the race had been a few laps longer,” said GT Academy Team RJN boss Bob Neville. “We’ve right on the heels of the championship leaders now and with two more events to go we have everything to play for.”
The next British GT Championship race will be held at Silverstone on September 9, before the season finale at Donington Park on September 30. RJN is now just two points shy of the leaders, setting the scene for an exciting championship battle that could go down to the wire. For now, congratulations to Jann and the RJN team!
Photos provided by Kevin Mc Glone of Red Square Images.
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This series needs to be in GT6, such an amazing line up of cars this year.
GT3-
Ferrari 458
Ferrari 430 Scuderia
Mercedes SLS AMG
BMW Z4
Aston Martin DBRS9
Porsche 997
Corvette Z06
Nissan GTR
McLaren MP4-12c
Audi R8
GT4-
Lotus Evora
Ginetta G55
Ginetta G50
Chevron GR8
Then there are other interesting cars from older seasons like the ascari A10 GT3, Mosler MT900 GT3 and the TVR Tuscan R.
Awesome!!
Was this recorded/filmed?, if so where can we see it?
Saturday mornings. Itv4 I think. The Grid. Highlights only.
This really proves that Games arent bad at all, Next thing you no is military will hire through battlefield lol. But well done!
Hope my track days pay off for next year :P
Well done Alex, maybe his racing suit will be DLC for gt5? or maybe GT6
Wow, third picture from the bottom looks like GT5 :P
Congrats on the podium finish!
Thanks Kilzone glad you like the pics.
Congrats on the podium finish guys!!! And good luck at Silverstone Jann, Alex and the team at RJN. :)
Make us proud! :)
Why can’t we get all the British GT tracks in GT5.
And don’t say anything about GT6 please…
yea british tracks are so awesome.
Brands Hatch
Donington Park
Knockhill
Oulton Park
I think they will be in GT6, will be too much time spent readying them for GT5, isn’t the Spa track from england?
Spa’s German
*ment Belgium lol, Flag mixed up
Jan is an MF Beast!!! Congrats and continued success!!
All I ask is for clear skies and dry lines at Silverstone. Geter done bro’s
I want an wallpaper version of the 10th picture :(
Congrats to Jann btw.
They should Hire from our Photomode Comps Photographers as that Pic is blurry.
NotStig – Drop me an email info@redsquareimages.com
Nice run boys, keep it up! We’re all rooting for you.
Why cant we have the cool gtr’s -.-
Stay posi Thee we may get something free at end of race season
Do you wanna pay for it? They’re not free
We got Kazs GTR Free last year and the Stealth GTR 500 with a code. Just an opinion. Also the Free X1 after Sebastian Vettles successful title run.
haha That’s so bittersweet. I bet they’re setting this up for a future movie ;)
Congrats to JannTheMann
Yuuuup. It’s too bad they keep running into trouble.