Sussex based GT racing team, ISL Motorsport, has entered their Marcos Mantis into the new GT Cup class of the British GT Championship.
This season this 11 round multi-driver British GT series features varying race distances from 2 x 40 minute 'sprint' races at Knockhill, Scotland, in May, to a 3 hour race over the Grand Prix circuit at Silverstone again in May, to a 1,000 km (approx 5 hours) marathon to be held at the awesome Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium over the August Bank Holiday.
The Marcos will be driven by the established pairing of Alun Edwards and Jeff Wyatt at all 11 rounds, with a third guest driver (to be confirmed at a future date) for the Silverstone and Spa endurance events.
The team and drivers are stepping up to the British series from the burgeoning European Endurance Racing Club Championship that they successfully competed in throughout 2002. "Whilst it was good to run at the front of the EERC grid last year the team felt that the challenge of racing against different GT marques in the BRDC’s new look British GT Championship this year was irresistible. I have to say I am relishing the opportunity to get back to the British series with a competitive GT Cup package," commented Jeff Wyatt.
Jeff campaigned a recalcitrant Marcos LM 500 in the 1998 British GT Championship, so therefore sees the British GT’s as unfinished business. Jeff has been particularly successful in saloon car endurance racing over the past couple of seasons, regularly being a podium finisher. The highlights were a class win at the 2000 Nurburgring 24 Hour in Germany in a BMW M3 group 'A' car and a group 'N' class second finish in the Spa Francorchamps 24 Hour, again in 2000.
Alun Edwards has successfully raced the ISL Motorsport Marcos Mantis in many endurance events and has had several one-off outings in previous British GT events.
Having the requisite experience and with a well prepared race car the team have high hopes for a good seasoned campaign.
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