Mortimer Takes Porsche Championship

Oly Mortimer has clinched the 2011 Porsche GT3 Cup Driver of the Year award after the final rounds of the season were held over the weekend at Silverstone as part of the Britcar24 event.

Mortimer went into the final three races with a slender three-point advantage over Graeme Mundy despite securing seven wins from the 10 races in the season so far.

A failure to finish at Croft back in April meant the season went down to a nail-biting finish in the final race of the season on the new Silverstone Grand Prix track.

As the temperature rose to 27C at Silverstone in the tropical

October sunshine the third and final race of the weekend and final race of the season saw Mundy and Mortimer start 1st and 2nd on the grid in the showdown for the Driver of the Year title. Mortimer needed at least 4th place to secure the title regardless of Mundy's finishing position but it was Mortimer who got the jump on his rival at the start taking the lead as the cars went into Copse.

Oly Mortimer commented: "It's a fantastic feeling to win such a prestigious title. I have to thank the Tynecastle Team and all our sponsors for the fantastic contribution they have made this year in helping me get to this position.

"Hopefully having achieved so much this year in my first full season in sportscars I can step up to the Porsche Carrera Cup Championship next season."

(BMcC)