Bentley Continental GT3 racer Seb Morris helped Team Parker Racing salvage a top five finish in the Pro-Am class during a luckless second round of the Blancpain Endurance Cup season at Silverstone on Sunday where the Welshman produced searing pace.
With a combination of an untimely Full Course Yellow period early in the race, and a major issue with multiple stalls for the No.31 Bentley Continental GT3 as Morris tried to leave the pits ahead of the final stint, genuine hopes of a challenge for Pro-Am victory evaporated.
Even so, Chester-based driver Morris produced a typically professional performance during the last hour of action around the Northamptonshire venue’s full Grand Prix track and the 23-year-old lit up the timing screens with the fastest first sector of any driver and the quickest lap of all in Pro-Am.
Circulating as much as four seconds a lap quicker than the cars around him late in the race while running sixth in class, Morris was able to overturn a deficit of more than 40 seconds in the space of just 15 minutes to catch, and pass, for fifth which he then held to the chequered flag.