Banbury speed king Jamie Derbyshire kept up the pressure on the leaders as he roared to second place in the BRDC British GT Championship round at the Spa 1000km race in Belgium on Sunday.
After six hours, the Spirit Volkswagen-backed racer looked on course for his seventh race win of the season, to turn up the heat on the championship pacesetters.
However, with the pace of the event and the length of the driving stints, the Mosler MT900R ran out of fuel - just three corners from home, while in the hands of third driver for the weekend, Thomas Erdos.
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