BTCC race winner Morgan to British GT
BRITISH GT
British Touring Car Championship racer Adam Morgan will take part in the last round of the British GT Championship next month as his Ciceley Motorsport team looks to branch out into endurance racing.
Morgan, who was a race winner at Rockingham last weekend, will line up in a Mercedes-amg GT4 alongside sportscar racer David Fairbrother for the two-hour contest on September 23.
Morgan, who has contested long distance races in Dubai in the 24 Hour Series, said it would be a toe-in-the-water exercise for the team, which is considering an expanded programme in 2019.
Ciceley Motorsport has previously operated a Renault UK Clio Cup team alongside the two BTCC Mercedes
A-class machines it runs for
Morgan and Tom Oliphant.
Morgan said: “We are going to run the car in the Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi and the Dubai 24 Hours in January and we have already had some interest from possible drivers. This could be a whole new attack from us.
“Our main focus is the British Touring Car Championship and it always will be. But there are so many other series out here that are appealing to us and we’ll see how we get on at Donington Park.
We’ll have our first test in the car at the beginning of September.”
Morgan said that the team would gauge the level of interest after its maiden run in British GT to see if it should commit to a more extensive programme for 2019.
“There are some clashes in the calendar between British GT and the BTCC, but we have the capability to do it,” he added. “We will see how we run and see what the reaction is like.”
The Ciceley car (pictured right) will become the fourth Mercedes-amg GT4 on the British GT grid, in the car’s maiden season in competition. It joins entries from Team Parker Racing (which currently leads the Pro-am standings with Scott Malvern and Nick Jones), Fox Motorsport and the new Protechnika Motorsport squad that made its debut at Spa.