Oxfordshire racing driver Tim Harvey made it four race wins on the trot in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Rockingham in rounds three and four of the championship contested by identical 420hp Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race cars.

Harvey led from the start of both races and fended off the challenge of Michael Caine to extend his lead in the UK’s fastest single marque racing championship.

In the first race, Harvey converted his pole position into an opening lap lead and with Caine on his tail they quickly started to edge clear of Euan Hankey (Taunton) who battled through to third in the opening laps. As ever, Harvey and Caine were very evenly matched and the gap was seldom more than a second.

Harvey had the better pace initially, but Caine came back strongly mid-race and was close enough to run side-by-side with his rival into Deane Hairpin on lap ten.

But Harvey stayed ahead and dealt with a late Safety Car period to win by just over half a second.“I pushed quite hard early on,” said Harvey. “But then I had to have a word with myself to tidy it up. Three wins on the trot is the best start to a season I’ve ever had in Carrera Cup.”

In the second race of the day, Harvey led the field into the first corner and, despite the race-long presence of Caine, was able to control the race from the front to complete a clean sweep of victories.