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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">01/05/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Ed Horner</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">More Than His Fair Share Of Bad Luck</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/rnerMorePRI.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"> First lap antics. With the grid at Donington a right old assortment of GTs and GTOs, incidents were perhaps inevitable. Should we be thinking like that though? The FIA GT Championship deliberately mixes the N-GTs with the GTs, and they seem to get through the opening laps without bother.<BR> <BR> Ed Horner in the #54 Parr Porsche has been an unfortunate victim of first lap aggression twice in two races. At Snetterton, as we saw on the TV, he was faced with a spinning Cerbera V12 rolling back into his path (after Ashley Ward had been tipped into a spin). Horner was left with nowhere to go but through the rear of the TVR - and eventual retirement after 17 laps.<BR> <BR> Round 3 at Donington was even worse. Ed explains: “Adam Simmons had muscled through beside me on the way into Coppice, but that was fine. He gave me enough room and it was just close racing. On the other hand, David Jones in the #78 Porsche was so aggressive (into the Esses), and he needn’t have been." <BR> <BR> The Jones twin apparently lost it totally, and as the car's tail end swung back wildly, it caught Ed Horner's Porsche a glancing blow on the front nearside. It wasn't a very hard impact, but still enough to hole the radiator. The Parr Porsche resumed at the back, but leaking fluid onto the tyres saw Horner indulge in an inevitable spin (above) at Goddards. Passing the entrance to the pitlane, the nose of the orange Porsche became engulfed in a cloud of steam and he coasted down the Craner Curves to retire.<BR> <BR> Frustrating business, this racing. Hopefully, the luck will all even out by the end of the season. Oulton Park is not somewhere you'd chose to have an incident, whether it be lap one or later. Perhaps they'll all get through the opening tour - for once. It's a one hour race, chaps.<BR> <BR> <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>