The 2018 British GT season finale at Donington Park provided plenty of fireworks for all of the protagonists on Sunday and a great show for the spectators of the two-hour championship-deciding race. For Darren Turner and the Beechdean AMR team it was a yo-yo race but they grabbed fifth at the finish, concluding Turner’s first full season in the British GT Championship. The Donington race was also the swansong for the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, which will be replaced by the

Despite spending much of Sunday’s British GT race at Rockingham defending hard and trying to hit an apex (!), Darren Turner was delighted to be rewarded with a podium finish. Along with Andrew Howard, Turner piloted the #99 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin to fourth place at the chequered flag but just a few hours later was awarded the podium position when the TF Sport car received a 30-second post-race penalty. “We didn’t have great pace in the wet for qualifying so the race was