Round 6 Silverstone

Silverstone Marks Last Hurrah For Wood-Scott Porsche

After three seasons in the British GT Championship Stuart Scott and Steve Wood have chosen to leave the GT3 class and look elsewhere for their racing.

2003 saw the pair introduce one of the most controversial cars yet seen in the Championship: the highly developed turbocharged VW Golf GTi may have been (eventually) unpopular with the rulemakers, but it was a source of endless fascination to the racegoing public, amazed at the sight of an 'ordinary' hot hatch keeping pace with Ferraris, Porsches and Lotuses. When it was eventually outlawed at the dawn of the SRO era it was a real disappointment for many.

Its replacement was a more conventional GT racing choice, a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, beautifully prepared by Mike Jordan's Team Eurotech.

The 2004 season saw Stuart and Steve working hard to get to grips with their new baby and saw the car venture rather further afield than the 'home nations', when Nick Adcock joined Stuart for the GT Festival in Bahrain.

The effort continued into this season with the Porsche thoroughly overhauled in the close season, and beautifully prepared by Steve's ART concern's new livery.

The results though were still proving hard to come by and, despite a first podium finish for the squad, albeit with Mark Sumpter replacing Stuart on driving duty, the sparkle appeared to have disappeared from the team's outlook.

The news of the team's withdrawal is of course disappointing, but it isn't the end of the road for Wood-Scott Racing.

The boys plan to regroup and find a new challenge, with every possibility that their weapon of choice might well prove to be the evergreen (or rather yellow!) VW Golf.

We wish them well for both the two hour race at Silverstone next week (supporting the LMES), and whatever the future might bring. DSC