Keirn Jewiss had an excellent weekend at the latest round of the GT World Championship last weekend, securing a double podium finish.

It was a strong weekend in France for the third sprint race weekend of the series. The 2Seas Motorsport #222 Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Charles Dawson and Kiern Jewiss scored pole position and a double podium result across the weekend.

Saturday’s qualifying with Kiern at the wheel, was impressive and locked out the front row alongside the sister car, and took Bronze class pole position. The gap between the pair was just 0.166s.

Race one saw Jewiss and teammate Dawson delivered a strong performance, but an infringement during one of the later caution periods would result in a post-race penalty. The #222 crossed the line to take the win on track, but ultimately with the penalty they had to settle for third place overall.

With a strong Saturday result as a foundation, the team set about building on the momentum with Sunday’s qualifying. However, Dawson would see his times deleted due to track limit infringements and therefore he and Kiern would start the race from the back of the field.

Despite the setback, the reigning British GT champions showed experience and a cool head as the lights went green. A typically chaotic start, as would be expected with 44 cars, didn’t phase either driver, and Dawson quickly gained positions. Dawson had moved up to P7 in class within the opening ten minutes before the first of several caution periods. An incident then brought a halt to proceedings as the race was red flagged ahead of the pit window opening, with Dawson having climbed to P4.

On the restart, Dawson pitted and handed over to Kiern. With him in for the second stint, he continued to show solid pace to the end. Post-race penalties worked in favour of the #222 and capped off a successful weekend, moving up to P2 in the standings, meaning a hattrick of podium finishes from three starts.

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