MOTORSPORT – 2 Seas Motorsport co-owner Shaikh Isa bin Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa praised the Bahraini-British team for their impressive podium in a tightly contested second round of the British GT Championship 2025, held last weekend at Silverstone Circuit in the UK.
The 2 Seas tandem of Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss steered their #42 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo contender to a runner-up finish in the three-hour Silverstone 500. Despite a late drive-through penalty, they came just five-tenths-of-a-second shy from taking the chequered flag at 2 Seas’ UK home circuit.
Teammates Kevin Tse and Maximilian Gotz, meanwhile, narrowly missed out on the top 10 after being classified 13th in the #18 car after starting from the front row.
With those results and following the sensational victory of Dawson and Jewiss in the season-opener at Donington Park, where Tse and Gotz also climbed onto the podium in third, 2 Seas have extended their lead atop the GT3 Teams’ championship standings. They are now on 99 points – 33 ahead current second-placers Barwell Motorsport.
Dawson and Jewiss also top the GT3 Drivers’ standings with 75 points apiece – 30 in front of Morgan Tillbrook and Marvin Kirchhoefer of Optimum Motorsport. Tse and Gotz are tied-fifth on 24 points each.
“A huge effort by both sides of the garage this weekend,” said Shaikh Isa. “I am incredibly proud of the work and effort that have delivered results across the whole weekend.
“Kevin and Max scoring another front-row start for the Silverstone 500, against a world-class grid of over 30 cars, and then amazing strategy work and effort from the engineers and crew to put Kiern and Charles in with a chance of taking the outright win is a huge achievement.
“We were unlucky with how our cards fell over the course of the race, but it’s how you deal with these situations which determine a race, and a championship, and the whole team, and all the drivers showed we have what it takes to fight at the front.
“Another maximum points result for the #42 is a great result to walk away from our second home race.”
Jewiss, who brought the car home after fighting until the last corner to try and come away with the win, commented: “We arrived at the weekend on the back foot, carrying more weight and the maximum pit-stop compensation (as per championship rules), so we knew it was going to be tough. Ultimately, it was the team who has got us to the final position where we could fight at the end.
“If you look at most of the previous Silverstone 500s, they are won with a gamble. With lots of cautions and Safety Cars, we rolled the dice over the course of the race, and the team did a great job at every step, so a big thanks to them.”
Added Dawson: “It’s bittersweet, and I have really mixed emotions leaving the weekend. Our pace was lacking over the weekend, but the strategy was perfect, and the team made the right calls at the right times to put us in the position to fight for the win.”
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