TEAM MODENA

06.04.2007 THE LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO GT3 WILL RACE IN THE BRITISH GT CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR

Team Modena will not be contesting the opening round of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship at Oulton Park, Cheshire this weekend after complications with the supply of their first Lamborghini Gallardo in GT3 specification from Reiter Engineering. The team are now targeting the second round of the series at Donington Park on April 21st- 22nd for their British GT debut. "To my great disappointment our Gallardo will not be ready for the first meeting at Oulton Park," explained Team Modena CEO Graham Schultz, "due to technical and build complications at Reiter Engineering.

Team Modena will be running two Lamborghini Gallardos in the GT3 class of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship in 2007. The cars will be run from the Lamborghini Wycombe workshops overseen by Team Principal Graham Schultz, with one car competing from the start of the season and the second joining in after the early rounds. "It's an honour and a privilege for us to the be the first official Lamborghini dealer to go racing," says Graham, "and we are looking forward to the British GT season ahead. We are very excited by this programme, GT3 and the Gallardo are natural fits with what we do at Lamborghini Wycombe, and we will be running the cars from there all year."

"The campaign will be another string to our bow," says team co-owner Rik Bryan, "and it is exciting as the Lamborghini is the perfect car for us with the Lamborghini Wycombe connection. It is an opportunity for us to show what Team Modena can do with our automotive, engineering, R&D and race team experience."

"We will definitely be at Donington Park, with Antonio Garcia driving for us, and that will give us another 10 days to paint and prepare the car ready for that meeting. I shall be at Oulton Park to support the British GT Championship next weekend." The GT3 campaign will run alongside Team Modena's Le Mans 24-Hours and Le Mans Series 2007 schedule with their GT1 Aston Martin DBR9 from the same High Wycombe facility.
 

TEAM JLOC LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO GT3

The Lamborghini Gallardo has also arrived in Japan this year. Team JLOC are running two of the Reiter Engineering built machines in the GT300 class of the 2007 Super GT Championship.

TEAM MODENA LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO GT3

The Lamborghini Gallardo is set to appear on the English race tracks as Team Modena will contest the British GT Championship with a pair of the Reiter Engineering-built GT3 machines.


The new GT3 class, which will produce the overall 2007 British GT Champion, which will feature eight different manufacturers, with another two, Jaguar and Morgan, due to compete later in the season and this promises to be the most closely fought championship for many years. There will be further Italian interest as a pair of Ferrari 430 GT3’s will also contest the 2007 championship, with Phil Burton and Adam Wilcox in the VRS Motor Finance entered car and the other driven by Hector Lester and Allan Simonsen. However Simonsen will miss the opening two races of the season due to a trip to Australia and Lester will be joined by fellow Ulsterman and reigning British GT Champion Tim Mullen for the Oulton Park meeting.

Beechdean Motorsport, who had a good first season in British GT, will also be entering a Ferrari 360 Modena for team owner Andrew Howard and highly experienced GT racer Aaron Scott. The team's second Ferrari is ready to race and may enter the championship later in the season. David Dove is also competing this year in a Ferrari 360.

The opening round of the 2007 Avon Tyres British GT Championship takes place at Oulton Park on Saturday 7th April at 17:20, with the second 60-minute race on Monday 9th April at 14:00. The 2007 season will be held over 14 rounds at 8 meetings all in the UK, with 2-hour feature races being held at Snetterton in June and Silverstone in August.  British GT will line up alongside the Lloyds TSB Insurance British F3 International Series at all of these meetings, which will also include a action packed support race programme which will feature UK Formula Ford, Caterhams, Ginettas and the Volkswagen Racing Cup.
 

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