Rui Aguas overcame his additional pitstop time penalty for professional drivers to win the first Masters Endurance Legends race of the weekend at Brands Hatch. After the pitstops, the Portuguese driver battled up from seventh to first, his Peugeot 908X passing the Martin Rich/Alex Kapadia ORECA-Nissan 03 for the lead on lap 19, Kapadia having put up a strong defense for a couple of laps.
Steve Tandy (Lola-Mazda B12/60) lost the lead to Kapadia on lap 14, having passed Martin Short (Dallara-Judd SP1) who exited the pitlane in first after the pitstops. Both hung on to third and fourth respectively, Short winning the class for the older P1 cars.
One lap down, Nigel Greensall (Riley & Scott Mk3) passed Keith Frieser’s ORECA-GM FLM09 on the final lap to take fifth overall and the class win for the oldest P1 cars on the grid. Travis Engen’s Audi R8 was seventh ahead of Mike Furness’s Courage LC75 and the Marc Rostan/Pierre Bruneau Pilbeam MP91.
The race effectively became just half a race after a lengthy safety-car period was needed to recover Niki Leutwiler’s ORECA-Nissan 03 P2 and David Porter’s Peugeot 908 which clashed on the first lap.
