TEAM MODENA TO RACE LAMBORGHINI GALLARDOS IN 2007 BRITISH GT

[autofocus]

Hi there,

A story in todays Autosport reports that Team Modena / Lamborghini Wycombe are to run two Lamborghini Gallardos in the 2007 British GT Championship.

Here is a snippet from the press release.

"Lamborghini Gallardos planned for British GT

Team Modena are in the running to enter 2 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 cars in this years British GT championship. Team Modena successfully ran it's Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 car last year in the LMES and the Le Mans 24 hour race last year and would use it's stellar engineering team to get the cars at the sharp end of the grid. The Team are part of an engineering group which includes Lamborghini Wycombe - the only non-retail Official Lamborghini Service Centre.

Graham Schultz - Team Modena CEO and Lamborghini Wycombe head told Racecar:

"As an official Lamborghini service centre - the deal makes perfect sense for us - we know the Gallardo model inside out - as I speak we have 12 Gallardos in our workshops for repair and service work and the race team can't wait to get their hands on the racecars and start the engineering process. We have had dialogue with Hans Reiter for a while of Reiter Engineering and recently built a GT3 inspired roadcar for one of our clients using Reiter Engineering components - the opportunity to run 2 cars from our base came up and we are close to making an official announcement."

Can't wait to see these on track battling against Porsche 997's and Aston Martin DBRS9's.
Saw the FIA GT3 Gallardos last year at Silverstone and although they were a little of the pace they did look superb.

Regards

Tim

[finchy]

Fantastic

will great to see & hear some some Lambos in GT action.

Finchy

[archibold]

Yes, it certainly adds variety to the grid!

Archibold

[guyh]

This is excellent news, should be a good grid.

[Graham]

Sounds like a shot in the arm to the GT's the GT's should be a mix, not just a porsche benifit...

Although for some reason Im routing for Viper

[archibold]

Me too G

Paul

[dino ferrana]

I think with the increased coverage GTs were enjoying last year and the quality of the grid as it stands, it should be a great year!

Be great to see the Lambos at all the rounds as well as the Fezzas, Porsches, Astons, Lotuses, Jaguars?, Ascaris, Vipers, Corvettes?. Anyone heard any rumours of any other cars joining? Isn't the Ford GT able to be entered into GT3?

[archibold]

Hi Dino

I heard the Corvette deal fell through, I also don't believe that the GT40 is homologated yet. Also to add to the list is the Mosler, so not a bad collection.

Archibold

[Dragaan]

I'm really looking forard to this season. If all goes to plan I'll be at Oulton Park for the opener, camping like last year.
The grid is going to look and sound amazing. I'm also looking forward to adding the new cars to our British GT mod for GTR2. We have the Rollcentre GT3 Mosler done and one of the RPM vipers nearly completed. I can't wait to get my hands on pictures of the others.