News

9 October 2000
Final round at Silverstone sees victory for Rymer

Terry Rymer and Geoff Lister battled home in convincing style in the last round of the Privilege Insurance British GT championship race at Silverstone.

The PK Porsche pairing were dominating every time they were on the race track. Terry was actually three seconds faster than even the more powerful GT cars in the first qualifying session in soaking wet conditions.

"The water was lying everywhere it was all you could do just to see, let alone drive a race car at 160mph" said Terry.

Yet he managed to astound the whole GT paddock by going fastest. The second session saw Geoff Lister in the car in slightly dryer conditions keeping the PK Porsche on pole.

Sunday morning arrived with much clearer looking skies. Terry and Geoff were ready for their third win of the season, there was a change of plan for this the final race meeting of the year: Geoff was going to start first allowing Terry to experience taking the chequered flag!

The race started with the usual ear deafening roar of thirty eight GT cars speeding down the start finish straight, Geoff was in great form and after only three laps was building an assailable lead over Rob Barf in the works TVR in second position. Thirty minutes had flown by it was now Terry's turn to take to the famous Silverstone GP circuit. Geoff had pulled eighteen seconds out on the second placed TVR and it was now Terry's job to at least hold the mean green TVR machine of Martin Short at bay until the end of the race.

Martin never posed a problem for the Kentish based ex-motorcycle racer after only five laps he had pushed the PK Porsche to twenty three seconds into the lead, all he needed to do now was bring the car home in one piece. Then two laps from the end it started to rain heavily so Rymer decided to take it very easy taking the chequered flag by eighteen seconds.

Geoff said "We really have dominated all weekend, I can't tell you how happy we all are with this result".

"It's been a great weekend for the whole team and all of our backers. We have worked so hard as a team to get these results that it seems a shame to end the season. All I want to do now is race! I can't wait for next year to unleash hell on our competitors" said Terry.