Reynolds hopes to blitz opposition at Levels

Victorious at Teretonga, David Reynolds will be hoping to blitz the Levels circuit this weekend, for round four of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge.

After last weekend's round victory at Invercargill Reynolds heads the Triple X Motorsport team's chances of successive wins with three races on the calendar at the Timaru International Motor Raceway.

Five-time defending champion Craig Baird will be hoping to break Reynolds' lead.

Having scored successive pole positions this season, Reynolds heads into this weekend's round as favourite, after winning all three races last time at his last visit to the 2.4km Levels track.

"I'm going to take the same attitude I did last year. I was very, very relaxed going in that round and hopefully I'll get that good lap in qualifying at start from pole. And from there you can dictate a lot more of the racing," the Melbourne-based driver said. "Timaru is a completely different track – very technical and tight – so you have to think a lot more about some of the corners with more of a slow-in fast-out approach."

Missing his first win of the season when he was hit by a competitor in the last race last weekend, Daniel Gaunt is firing to ensure he improves on his third spot in the championship table.

Taking time out between the back-to-back race weekends, team principal Auckland businessman Shane McKillen has been holidaying in Queenstown with his family. Ninth in the standings he is one position behind youngster Courtney Letica. Letica's best result in last weekend's return to racing came with a fifth placing in the final race, in spite of having to start from dead-last.

Christchurch's Paul Kelly boosts the lineup to 10, after returning to the series after family commitments the previous weekend.

With six Porsche 997 cars, the team also run drivers Earl Bamber (Wanganui), Stefan Webling (New Plymouth) and Chris Wootton (Brisbane) in the Toyota Racing Series, along with Whangarei's Scott Harrison in the Suzuki Swift Sport Cup.

A 12-lap race on Saturday afternoon will be followed by a second 12-lap race on Sunday morning, with the top-six reverse grid finale of 16 laps taking place on Sunday afternoon.

Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge points after round three (of six) – top-nine: Craig Baird (Queensland) 793 points; Matt Halliday (US) 707; Daniel Gaunt (Auckland) 666; Jonny Reid (Auckland) 619; David Reynolds (Melbourne) 584; Andrew Bagnall (Auckland) 447; Anthony Pedersen (Rotorua) 394; Courtney Letica (Auckland) 394; Shane McKillen (Auckland) 388.

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