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BRANDS HATCH CHRIS VAN DE VREKEN

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BRANDS HATCH Brands Hatch was the arena for the opener of the Blancpain Series on Saturday 4 May and Sunday 5 May. The weather over the weekend was with the usual ups and downs... cold, wind hail, rain and occasional sun. We were certainly not allowed to complain because their colleagues at Spa Francorchamp were allowed to race with snow for the WEC 6hours or Spa Francorchamps.

and Markus Winkelhock (Sainteloc Racing). Vervisch will share his Phoenix Rang Audi R8 with Briton Finlay Hutchinson and Winkelhock will be supported by Steven Palette in his Audi R8 for Sainteloc Racing. Frank Stippler and Kim-Luis Schramm complete the line-up for Phoenix Racing. Sainteloc Racing was represented by 3 cars, one featured by Nyls Stievenart and Stephane Ortelle and another by Simon Gachet and Christopher Under these harsh weather conditions, the Haase. Three Audis had been entered by Atfield was split into the GT World Challenge tempto Racing and this ensuring the German Europe, the GT4 European Series, the Por- manufacturer makes up for almost half of the she Club championships and the Toyo Tires grid. 7 Race Series. The Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe kicked off at Brands Hatch, on Another opponent for Audi was the Merthis legendary Grand Prix Circuit, a line up of cedes AMG, with five cars entering for the 26 racing supercars from the world’s leading new season. This includes the reigning manufacturers. champion Raffaele Marciello in the first of four Akka ASP Team GT3s, alongside his new The Audi R8 LMS GT3 is strongly represented partner Vincent Abri. Another strong linein this race with no less than 12 cars, includ- up in the Mercedes AMG ranks and winner ing four cars of The Belgian Audi Club Team at Brands Hatch will be the Black Falcon of WRT, with Belgian star driver, Dries Vanthoor, Maro Engel and Luca Stolz. who shares the seat with Ezequiel Perez Companc, and Britain’s Tom Camble, who The Italian Job, four Lamborghini Huracan will co-drive his Audi R8 with Shae Davis. GT3s will be on the grid for this race. The first Italian Bull is for GRT Grasser Racing Team Other star drivers amongst Audi’s ranks, in- with Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti clude Fredderic Vervisch (Phoenix Racing) on the wheel. Phil Keen should be another

Lamborghini driver for the Orange 1 FFF Racing Team and he shares the Lamborghini with Hiroshi Hamaguchi. The sister car of Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli ought to be competitive too and shared second place on the podium on Sunday.

Former Aston Martin and Bentley driver Andy Meyrick drove one of the two Mercedes AMG GT4s in the Pro-Am Classe.

Three Ferrari 488 GT3s will add more Italian flair to the grid together with the two RMotorsport prepared Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3s The GT4 European Series were well represented at Brands Hatch with 10 GT4 manufactures as Alpine Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Kris, Ginetta, KTM, McLaren, Mercedes and Porsche.

A sole Audi R8LMS GT4 has been entered by Phoenix Racing for Nicolaj Moller, who is defending the Silver Cup Champion. Schede Motorsport is back at Brands Hatch and team owner, Phillip Berthke and former FIA GT1 World Champs Marc Basseng, will co-drive one of the two Mercedes AMG GT4s. With a line up of 30 cars the Porsche Club Championship, with Pirelli and Classic Restoracing Championship, opens the battle for the Porsche Cayman S and Boxster S.

McLaren drivers Daniel Mckay and Benjamin Lessennes lead the series after claiming a victory at Monza last month. The Equipe Verschuur duo mastered the difficult conditions in Italy in their McLaren 570S GT4. Euan McKay, brother of Daniel McKay will race the Ekris Motorsport Ekris M4 GT4.

After a fantastic opening event at Spa Francorchamps and this time under the Easter sun, it’s time for the Toyo 7 Race Series to come home to Brands Hatch, or as I like to say, Little Spa Francorchamps, with an entry list of 41 cars, including 31 cars in the 420R class.

Academy Motorsport has entered two new Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4s for the race at Brands Hatch. Fiona James will partner Tom Wood in one car in the Pro-Am category, whilst Will Moore and Matthew Cowley race the other Aston Martin in the Silver Cup.

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