Having already welcomed the arrival several teams based in continental Europe the international flavour of this year’s Avon Tyres British GT Championship continues to strengthen with the announcement that an African team are to join the grid.
Scuderia Vittoria team boss Danny Buxton talks through the latest pre-season developments exclusively for TCF.
Gregor Fisken will return to Trackspeed and to the Avon Tyres British GT Championship for 2013, named in the second of the Porsche squad’s intended three cars alongside regular star Richard Westbrook.
Sébastien Loeb Racing has showed it’s intention to battle for top positions in the FIA GT Series in 2013 with the announcement of Mike Parisy and Andreas Zuber driving one of the two McLaren MP4-12C joining Sébastien Loeb and Alvaro Parente in the sister car for the Alsacian team.
The Preci-Spark Engineering and Rosso Verde teams have both confirmed they will return to the grid for the 2013 Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
JRM Racing has confirmed its lineup ahead of the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series in the shape of Scot Peter Dumbreck and German Lucas Luhr. The two will pilot JRM’s Nissan GT-R Nismo in the Pro-car category.
Jody Fannin and Archie Hamilton have become the latest names to be added to the British Racing Drivers Club ‘Rising Star’ programme.
The four winners of the 2012 Nissan GT Academy will not be able to follow their predecessor Jann Mardenborough into the Avon Tyres British GT Championship after the series organisers deemed the potential pace of the new recruits was too great from their grading under the championship’s system.
After entering the final two rounds of the 2012 season under the Cyber Racing banner Phil Dryburgh and John Gaw will return to the Avon Tyres British GT Championship this season, competing as PGF-Kinfaun-AMR.
APO Sport, with drivers Alex Osborne and James May are to return for a second season in the GT4 class of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
Britcar 24 Hours winners Richard Abra and Mark Poole will move up to the Avon Tyres British GT Championship this season, their brand new Aston Martin Vantage GT3 being prepared by Barwell Motorsport.
The race winning combination of Jonny Adam, Andrew Howard and the Beechdean Motorsports Aston Martin V12 Vantage will return to the Avon Tyres British GT grid in 2013.
Ginetta confirmed in the final months of last year that they would be entering a works supported team in the GT3 class of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship with their Ginetta G55 GT3 – currently the top of the range in terms of the racing machinery available from the company.
Amid the activity on the Ginetta stand at Autosport International, surrounded by his company’s cars, Lawrence Tomlinson is a man excited about the 2013 season.
After entering three rounds of the 2012 season rhino’s Leipert Motorsport have announced they will enter the full Avon Tyres British GT Championship in 2013.
Ginetta GT Supercup rivals Tom Sharp and Colin White will join forces for this season sharing a Ginetta G55 GT3 in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
The new FIA GT Series has been unveiled by promoters SRO Motorsports Group today at the Autosport International show, taking over from the previous…
