+ Fastest times for Clutton and Mitchell
+ Result: Free Practice
Orange/JMH and Mahiki made fast starts to their British GT weekend at Brands Hatch by topping Free Practice this morning.
Marcus Clutton and Jack Mitchell both dipped below the race lap records en route to the session's quickest GT3 and GT4 times around the former GP circuit.
Clutton set his 1m23.663s benchmark on lap four, and it wasn't seriously challenged until the final 12 minutes when Barwell's Patrick Kujala lapped 0.274s slower. That pushed Blackthorn's Aston Martin driven by Jonny Adam back to third, 0.7s down on the leading 720S.
Sven Müller and Team Parker's Porsche improved on their final tour to finish one thousandth slower in fourth, while Hugo Cook (Barwell) also saved his best for late in the hour-long session en route to fifth.
Optimum's McLarens driven by Marvin Kirchhöfer and Callum Macleod then sandwiched 2 Seas' Maximilian Götz. But the team's second Mercedes-AMG shared by championship leaders Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss was conspicuously slow in 11th overall.
GT4's fastest time belonged to Charlie Robertson for the first 35 minutes but ultimately went to Mahiki's Ginetta driven by Mitchell.
His co-driver Josh Miller initially moved the G56 to within a tenth of Century's BMW before Mitchell's subsequent 1m31.347s beat Robertson's best by 0.167s.
Points' leader Jack Brown, who could become British GT's first-ever multiple GT4 champion on Sunday, took Optimum's McLaren to third. Team-mates Harry George and Luca Hopkinson were one place further back despite suffering a suspected fuel pressure issue.
Mahiki's other two Ginettas completed the top six.
Pre-Qualifying begins at 11:50.
