Last year's Spa 24 Hour winners Lilian Bryner and Enzo Calderari will be joining Larbre Competition for its renewed attack on this year's FIA GT Championship.

With the promising, young Steve Zacchia, they will form an all-Swiss driver line up in one of the two Care Racing supported Ferrari 550 Maranellos that Larbre will operate. The other car will be driven by Pedro Lamy and Gabriele Gardel.

The signing of the seasoned and capable duo, who competed for Care Racing in 2004, means that all Larbre's FIA GT drivers have previous experience with the Ferrari 550, something which team owner Jack Leconte considers a great advantage.

"I am very pleased to welcome Lilian and Enzo to Larbre. We have a fantastic stable of Champions and race winners, including the only female Spa 24 H winner. To be able to start the season straight away without anyone having to get used to a new car will, I am confident, give us an advantage over our competitors."
 

Bryner and Calderari have driven for reigning FIA GT Champions, BMS Scuderia Italia, for the last three years. The Italian team is moving to the Le Mans Endurance Series for 2005, but this was not a series which appealed to the two Swiss drivers as much as the FIA GT Championship.

Enzo Calderari said, "We wanted very much to take part again in the Spa 24 Hours, to defend our title, and this is obviously part of the FIA's Championship. To run with prototypes [at Le Mans and the LMES] is not so easy and we didn't want to do Le Mans. We are very comfortable in the FIA GT.

"Jack has worked hard to put this deal together and Lilian and I are both happy to be driving the Care Racing Ferraris again. We know Jack runs a good team and I think it will work very well. BMS were very understanding about our decision and we have left them for this year on very good terms."