India’s Akhil Rabindra on Suday finished second in Race 1 at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit in the European GT4 series. The PRO Sport Performance Racing duo after 32 laps in Race 1, finished second (+3.031 Seconds) behind Reinhard Kofler and his teammate Patric Niederhauser of True Racing.
Taking over the charge from Florian Thoma, Rabindra drove the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 bravely to finish second ahead of Danielle Mckay who, was driving a MCLaren 570 and Jan Kisiel in the Mercedes AMG.
Thoma in Race 1 drove magnificently and maintained the first spot till the mandatory Pit Stop took effect. Rabindra who took over the charge from here on started at the second position a few seconds behind Kofler of True Racing.
Earlier, on Saturday Florian Thoma, Akhil’s teammate from PROsport Performance clocked a stunning time of 1:33.752 mins and took the pole position in the first qualifying round while in the second round of the qualifying sessions, Akhil finished fourth (1:32.095 mins).
Akhil started the GT4 European series season with a 8th and 7th place finish respectively in the two races at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Germany, which was the first leg of the series.
