The famous name of USA fuel additive brand STP - its 50-year history steeped in high-level motorsport - is returning to UK tracks for a major title assault on the 2010 Avon Tyres British GT Championship.

The famous name of USA fuel additive brand STP - its 50-year history steeped in high-level motorsport - is returning to UK tracks for a major title assault on the 2010 Avon Tyres British GT Championship, backing a Chad Racing Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 for Daniel Brown and Chris Hyman.

Brown and Hyman are no strangers to the series, the former making his mark last year, at just 17 years of age, with three race wins in the MOMO Mosler. Brown’s stellar performance - which followed a Rookie-winning season in Formula Palmer Audi - earned him the title of British GT ‘driver find of the season’ last year by Autosport. Hyman’s 2009 British GT season experience, in last year’s Chad Racing Ferrari 430, is the ideal complement to Brown which, together with the newly-prepared 430 Scuderia, provides the team with all the ingredients for championship victory.

The STP brand heritage has involved sponsoring race teams for the likes of Graham Hill, Jim Clark, Mario Andretti (including the infamous Indy gas turbine cars), Jean Pablo Montoya, plus F1 (March), Group C & GTP, and NASCAR.  STP backed Richard Petty throughout his seven NASCAR Winston Cup Championship victories (and all 200 race wins since 1972), and maintains a relationship with his team to this day. Additional backers of the Essex-based team this year include car styling accessory brand, Brown & Geeson, and MOMO, both of whom have supported Daniel Brown since his entry to motorsport at the age of 14, in the T-Car series.

Chad Racing was formed in 2005 by Ivan Dockerill to run a professional race team in Sports and GT programmes in Europe and the UK. Today, the business operates from a 15,000 sq ft purpose build facility with a separate body and paint shop operation on site, to maximise the in-house capability. Chad Racing Team Manager, Piers Masarati, commented: “It’s great to have such an iconic brand as STP with us, and we are confident that the Daniel Brown/Chris Hyman line-up in our new 430 Scuderia will mount a serious challenge at the front of the GT3 field this year. We started an intensive test programme last November and broke the lap record at two of the championships circuits. For sure, we will be stronger than last year and with our two cars, we feel confident we can mix it with the other strong pairings in the championship this year,” he continued. "I especially look forward to helping develop Daniel’s driving. In testing he has been everything I expected, quick and consistent, and paired with Chris, who was so quick in FPA and British GT last year, they will be a force in the Championship,” he concluded.