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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">PRIVILEGE INSURANCE BRITISH GT CHAMPIONSHIP</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">30/04/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">John Griffiths</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Not Guilty</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/ithsNot%20PRI.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2"> John Griffiths is beginning to feel as if Channel 4’s TV cameramen have it in for him.<BR> <BR> The Eclipse Motorsport boss says that on both his most recent Privilege outings he has been seen on camera - apparently making race-ending mistakes!<BR> <BR> “In fairness at the last round (Snetterton) I didn’t understand the crash myself (which ended the #69 Marcos Mantis race six laps from home whilst running a very strong seventh overall) until (Ferrari 360 driver) Neil Woodford asked me whether I’d realised what had happened.”<BR> <BR> Woodford, walking in after the #60 Ferrari retired from the race, had seen the Marcos come by with a rear wheel clearly pointing in the wrong direction, probably a delayed result of contact with another car suffered by Griffith’s co-driver Shane Bland earlier in the race.<BR> <BR> “If you watch the TV pictures it looks as if I threw away the race by locking up well before the braking area” says Griffiths. “It wasn’t like that at all”<BR> <BR> John handed the car back to a returning Jacky Van Der Ende for yesterday's race at Donington Park, where the car started an encouraging ninth overall (fifth in GTO). John could clearly not be blamed therefore for the car’s early exit from the race after contact with the Quaife on lap one.<BR> <BR> A separate item on the #69 car's new colour scheme shortly.<BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>