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RKBOGAERTSPHOTOGRAPHYSpecial display to mark
British GT’s 300th race
MOTORSPORT GAMESBritain’s motorsport federation has
asked potential competitors to apply
for the chance to compete in the inaugural
Olympics-style Motorsport Games.
Motorsport UK is seeking representatives
to compete in the six categories – GT,
touring cars, Formula 4, drifting, karting
slalom and Esports – that will comprise the
FIA event, which takes place at Vallelunga
in Italy from 31 October-3 November.
Motorsport Games is an expansion of the
amateur-based FIA GT Nations Cup, which
took place for the fi rst time last December
and was won by a team of Turkish drivers.
Motorsport UK chief executive Hugh
Chambers, who spent a decade working
in Olympic sports before returning tomotorsport, told Autosport: “We’ve had a
lot of interest in the GT category, and a lot
of debate on the ways to select drivers and
a team for that category. Should we choose
current [championship] leaders, last year’s
champions? None of these are perfect.
So we felt it appropriate to open it up
to drivers and teams to apply.”
Chambers added that “we haven’t had
that debate yet” when asked if, as an
extreme example, three-time British
Touring Car champion Colin Turkington
or 2012 World Touring Car king Rob Huff
applied for the tin-top element with WSR.
“One of the curiosities about the
construction of the event is there are only
prizes for medallists,” he said. “So if you
come fourth you’re the fi rst of the losers.
To some extent, as an ASN, you could takethe view that you want to go to participate,
or only enter a discipline you think you
can win a medal in. But a top team would
be fantastic, and that’s one of the reasons
we’ve thrown it open to applications.”
Competitors are asked to provide their
own funding, but Chambers said this
could evolve from 2020: “We could look
for a team sponsor. It’s reasonable to
expect GT teams to include it in their
budget, but we could fund karting and
slalom drivers – it wouldn’t be uniform
across all disciplines.”
Potential entrants, who must hold a
British passport, are asked to fi ll in a form
from the FIA website and send completed
entries to [email protected] by
midday on Friday 30 August.
MARCUS SIMMONSMotorsport UK seeks entries for
new Olympic-style event
to and from Donington by the
project’s chief development
engineer Alastair Macqueen,
who also masterminded Jaguar’s
Le Mans 1988 and 1990 wins.
One of two existing TVRCerbera V12s, also converted to
road-spec using pooled parts
from the original chassis that
raced in British GT between
2000 and 2002, will attend too.
JAMES NEWBOLDBRITISH GTBritish GT will mark its 300th
race at Donington Park next
month with a collection of
historic supercars that have
contested the series since it
began as the BRDC National
Sports GT Challenge in 1993.
Among them will be the
exceptionally rare Ian Stinton-owned Harrier GT1-98, which
was entered in the GT1 class
in 1998 by the factory Harrier
team and had Jamie Campbell-
Walter among its driver roster,
while a Jaguar XJ220 chassis
owned by Chamberlain
Engineering will also be present.
TWR 004, which has
been converted to road-car
specifi cation, will be drivenSUTTONF4 single-
seaters will be
one of the
disciplines