Invictus Games Racing F-Type GT4 announced
Armed Forces veterans, the man behind Superdry, and Jag SVO create the best looking race car of 2018
Invictus Games Racing will compete with the F-Type GT4 you see here in the 2018 British GT Championship, with two cars to be raced by wounded, injured and sick (WIS) veterans. The cars have been built by Jaguar's SVO division and based on the F-Type SVR. So yes, that means they're V8s...
The project has come about thanks to James Holder, co-founder of Superdry and avid motorsport enthusiast. Story goes that while he was competing in the 2016 British GT Championship, he was sufficiently inspired by watching the Invictus Games that he had a vision to combine the two. As such he's funded the process himself, working with Jim Cameron of Mission Motorsport to recruit the drivers and SVO to build the cars. Holder commented on the process: "Our drivers have overcome adversity in the face of injury, shown fierce ambitions in life and possess an incredible drive to succeed. They are perfectly suited for this sport which gives them an outlet for their ambitions."
In addition to the competition, Invictus Games Racing will run experience events; track days opening up motorsport endeavours to other injured servicemen and women. The first of those will take place at Silverstone on 7th June.
Expectations are modest for this first season, the focus being on getting the drivers and cars as competitive as possible as quickly as possible. The team can be followed on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram; expect an awful lot more from them soon. Best of luck to all!
I don't care if it was being funded by tax payers, this is a noble venture designed to provide an outlet for our injured service men and women. As it happens, a very wealthy dude is putting his hand in his own pocket and helping out those who have not been in the position of making a few hundred mil themselves. Good on him!
It follows a similar theme to Mission Motorsport which I would strongly suggest all petrolheads donate a few quid to.
http://www.missionmotorsport.org/
Bring on LM18, grandstand 21 and Houx booked....
Sounds like a great venture - best of luck to them!
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