{"id":3296,"date":"2012-04-12T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T08:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2012-04-12T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T08:05:20","slug":"lotus-sport-uk-successful-opening-weekend-in-british-gt-for-lotus-sport-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2012\/04\/12\/lotus-sport-uk-successful-opening-weekend-in-british-gt-for-lotus-sport-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Sport UK – Successful Opening Weekend In British GT For Lotus Sport UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A good start to the season for the Lotus Sport UK team in the British GT last weekend, claiming 3 podium places from the 2 races in the GT4 class despite a rain soaked race weekend.<\/p>\n

Lotus Sport UK opened their 2012 Avon Tyres British GT Championship account with three podium finishes from two races at the picturesque Oulton Park circuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In challenging weather conditions Sailesh Bolisetti took to the wheel of the #48 Lotus Evora for the first stint in race one despite only having driven the car briefly in the wet. Promising lap times kept the car in the running for a good finish in GT4 before Phil Glew took over. Setting a stunning pace he reeled in the Ginetta of Hughes and Fannin who had a 1m37s gap at the start of his stint, by the end of the race he had closed that gap down to 37 seconds. <\/p>\n

Marco Attard started in the #49 Lotus and following a great start kept 3rd place. With a solid pace throughout the race and improving lap times Alistair MacKinnion took over to keep the car in a podium scoring position.<\/p>\n

Race two saw the #48 car star from pole position with Glew leading the way throughout his stint, he matched the pace of Hughes in the Ginetta and would pull out a 6 second lead by the time he came in for the driver change. Unfortunately for Bolisseti the pace of Jody Fannin in the Ginetta would prove too strong and would lose a place; despite this he would keep his head as others slid off the circuit and bring home the car in a brilliant second place.<\/p>\n

Alistair Mackinnon started in the #49 car from third place but would lose out as the back end of the Lotus stepped out and dropped him down to fourth place. Attard would put in a solid drive to bring the car home in one piece finishing fourth in class.<\/p>\n

Quotes from the weekend:<\/p>\n

Sailesh Bolisetti #48:<\/strong> \u201cI had a great weekend with Lotus Sport UK, big learning curve, and horrible conditions that I am not used too!! My team mate Phil helped me no end so that was great. Two second places is a great start to my British GT experience so I\u2019m really happy!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Phil Glew #48:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s great to be back with the Lotus Sport UK guys, they do a great job. It was really enjoyable this weekend racing alongside the likes of Warren Hughes and Jody Fannin in such tricky conditions. Sailesh did a great job, lots for him to take on, and in these very wet conditions, he did a great job.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Alistair Mackinnon #49:<\/strong> “It was great to be back racing in GT’s, the conditions were awful, but I think that myself and Marco did a good job, a podium in the first race was brilliant! The team are a great bunch, and the little Evora was a pleasure to race!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Marco Attard #49:<\/strong> “The conditions here today were terrible, but the we managed to bring back two unscathed cars, and with a couple of podiums too, so all in all, a great weekend!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Gary Ayles, Team Manager:<\/strong> “All the drivers drove fantastic races over the weekend in very testing conditions, and also the fact we had no major offs, or damage proves what a professional job the guys did. Our rookie Sailesh coped with all the new things to learn extremely well, and the fact he has only ever raced in the wet a handful of times proved that he will be one to watch in GT’s in the future.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good start to the season for the Lotus Sport UK team in the British GT last weekend, claiming 3 podium places from the 2 races in the GT4 class despite a rain soaked race weekend. Lotus Sport UK opened their 2012 Avon Tyres British GT Championship account with three podium finishes from two races […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[546,638,653,692,750],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gt-racing","tag-lotus-sport-uk","tag-oultan-park","tag-phil-glew","tag-race-report","tag-sailesh-bolisetti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}