Day: February 27, 2019

Double duty for Hartley at Sebring

Jens Jensen

Brendon Hartley will be super busy at the Super Sebring event. It was announced, just shy of three weeks ago, that Hartley would be racing for SMP Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship race, that runs on Friday afternoon and evening local time. But he won’t be done with his tasks for the weekend, when the 8 hours or 1000 miles has been completed, Friday at midnight. Action Express has hired him to race the Mustang Sampling Cadillac #5, which he will be sharing with Joao Barbosa and Filipe…

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Mike Moss returns with BMW to Britcar Endurance

Steve Tarrant

It doesn’t seem long ago that Mike Moss took his first racing steps in the Trackday Trophy, and in a fairly short space of time he has claimed three Britcar titles and a class win in the 2017 Silverstone 24hrs race – all in his Moss Motorsport BMW M3 E46, which last year, in the hands of Kris Prosser and Jon Watt, took the Britcar Sprint crown. Moss himself, meanwhile has been concentrating on his team’s unique BMW 1M E82, the innovative machine engineered by Moss Motorsport’s engineering associates Ash…

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Porsche’s new 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport to enter British GT

Steve Tarrant

Porsche’s new 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport will contest British GT this season with manufacturer specialist GT Marques plus Pro-Am duo Chris Car and Carrera Cup GB runner-up Dino Zamparelli. It brings the number of manufacturers confirmed for this year’s British GT4 class to eight and also represents Porsche’s first entry since 2017 when the previous-generation Cayman raced. The list of debutants also extends to both drivers and team, although two of the three are no strangers to the German manufacturer. GT Marques is something of a Porsche specialist having previously…

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GT4 champions return to defend title

Steve Tarrant

GT4 Pro-Am champions Nick Jones and Scott Malvern will defend their British GT title with Team Parker Racing in 2019 after revealing their Mercedes-AMG’s new livery at Donington. The duo return for a fourth season together after initially racing both a Ginetta and Porsche before switching to the Mercedes-AMG at the start of 2018. The combination of a new-generation GT4 car and Team Parker’s expertise paid off for Jones and Malvern who claimed two class wins en route to the Pro-Am title. They will face renewed competition to retain their…

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Century Motorsport add second BMW M6 GT3 to championship programme

Steve Tarrant

Century Motorsport has expanded its 2019 British GT Championship programme to include a second BMW M6 GT3 for Pro-Am duo Dominic Paul and Ben Green. The reigning GT4 Teams’ champions initially revealed their senior class entry in December by confirming Adrian Willmott and Jack Mitchell, who also won the 2018 GT4 Drivers’ crown with Century. However, since then the Fenny Compton-based squad has been working on a second M6 entry that now sees last year’s GT4 runner-up Green remain with Century for a third season. The same combination also finished…

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