Gamble fends off Zamparelli for race two Monza win

Team Parker Racing's George Gamble has taken his second Porsche Carrera Cup GB victory of the 2018 season after beating Dino Zamparelli in the second Monza race.

Gamble started the reverse grid race from third position but quickly powered himself into the lead after moving ahead of his Team Parker stablemate Seb Perez and pole-sitter Esmee Hawkey on the run up to turn one.

Another early pile-up meant the safety car was once again called into action before the race could gather any pace as the marshals cleared the wreckage along the start-finish line.

As the race resumed on lap three, Gamble held his lead ahead of Perez, while Tio Ellinas immediately demoted Hawkey back a further position down to fourth after passing the GT Marques prepared 911 GT3 Cup car into turn one.

Knowing time was of the essence, race one winner Dino Zamparelli quickly followed his championship rival Ellinas through into fourth ahead of Hawkey at the end of the lap into the Parabolica corner.

Fourth, however, quickly turned into second for Zamparelli after a lock-up from Ellinas at the final corner allowed the Redline Racing Porsche into third, which then allowed the championship leader to pounce on Perez just a corner later at turn one.

With Ellinas following Zamparelli past Perez just one-lap later, both title protagonists began to hunt down Gamble at the front of the field.

Although they both managed to catch Gamble with relative ease, neither Zamparelli or Ellinas could manufacture a gap past the race leading Team Parker Porsche, despite coming close on a number of occasions.

Gamble held on for the win by 0.8s ahead of Zamparelli, while Ellinas took third ahead JTR's Tom Wrigley.

Perez took a second consecutive fifth place finish to win the Pro-Am category ahead of Motorbase Performance's Dan Vaughn in sixth.

JTR duo Lewis Plato and Dan Harper recovered back up the order from their race one woes to finish in seventh and eighth, as Pro-Am runners Jamie Orton and Esmee Hawkey completed the overall top-ten order.

Ian Dockerill capitalised on Peter Kyle-Henney's first lap retirement to take the Am category honours in eleventh.