Easter Monday raceday
British F3 and GT update
Erdos has signed for Damax
Last year's GT Champion Tim Mullen is making a one-off appearance at Oulton Park. Mullen, who's competing in the FIA GT Championship with last year’s championship winning Scuderia Ecosse team, will be racing for Hector Lester in the Christians in Motorsport teams Ferrari 430 GT3.
“This is a one off but I’m really looking forward to the experience,” said Mullen. “The GT3 Ferrari 430 will be slightly different from the GT2. It should be really quick but I don’t get to try the car until the testing on Good Friday. After last year I’m really looking forward to getting back into British GT, even if it is just for the meeting at Oulton.”
2002 champion Tommy Erdos will also be returning to the series driving a Damax-entered Ascari, and the 2004 champion Jonathan Cocker will be racing one of Barwell’s three Aston Martin DBRS9s.
Qualifying for the GT Championship takes place at 13:15 on Saturday 7th April, with round one due to begin at 17:20 the same day and Round 2 at 14:00 on Monday 9th April. Qualifying for the F3 cars is also on Saturday, with race one at 11:15 on Monday and race two at 16:30.
The first PistonHeads fan forum will also take place this weekend. The Beechdean Motorsport Ferrari team will host the event on Monday at 12:45. Andrew Howard (team owner and driver), Aaron Scott (driver) and Dave Brewer (team manager) will be on hand to answer any questions and there will be a tub of Beechdean ice cream for each PH member attending, which we can confirm is rather good. First 20 people to contact us get the places (and the ice cream).
Hey Jules, he'll love it. This time last year was my first ever race event and my 3 kids loved it. Beachdean are a really friendly bunch and let my kids sit in the car after the race and again at Silverstone later in the year.
Spent an hour at Oulton Park this afternoon spectating at their general test.
Am planning on going to Oulton Park again on Saturday for the British GT but thought I would have a look at what was out on track today.
Some of the British GT cars were getting in some early practice.
Team Damax - Ascari's
Team Eurotech - Ascari
David Dove Racing - Ferrari 360 Modena
VRS Motor Finance - Ferrari F430 (sorry picture not as sharp as I would have liked)
More pics to follow after my visit on Saturday.
Regards
Tim
)I'm still a newbie too as I've only done 4 days (plus training of course). I've been told 'Shell' is the place to be for this weekend - how do I ensure I get placed where I want?
)I'm still a newbie too as I've only done 4 days (plus training of course). I've been told 'Shell' is the place to be for this weekend - how do I ensure I get placed where I want?
ask nadine at sign on... benifits of shell is that its a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog way from the crowds. always a good thing at a F3/Gt day.
)I'm still a newbie too as I've only done 4 days (plus training of course). I've been told 'Shell' is the place to be for this weekend - how do I ensure I get placed where I want?
ask nadine at sign on... benifits of shell is that its a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog way from the crowds. always a good thing at a F3/Gt day.
Nar, go for Durids and you have the lack of cowds and trees to give you some shade/shelter
And you don't have to walk for miles to get to the porta potty or get bitten to death by the mozzies from the lake.
true. shouldnt be a problem this time of year with the mozzies - remember walking round the circuit one evening in June - the mozzies where creating thick THICK black clouds from Island beyond Gassing Station | General Motorsport | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff