Team Parker switches to Porsche GT3 and joins Supercup in 2021
Team Parker Racing has swapped its Bentley Continental GT3 for a Porsche 911 GT3-R for British GT this year, and will also expand into the Porsche Supercup.
The 2017 GT3 title-winning squad has moved to align its operations with a single manufacturer to tie in with its activities in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB and
Sprint Challenge GB, thereby completing the “boxset” of levels on the Porsche motorsport pyramid. The GT3-R will be driven by team regulars Scott Malvern and Nick Jones, who won the 2018 GT4 Pro-am title in a Parker-run Mercedes.
“We decided at the end of last year that we would try and simplify the business – rather than having different brands in different championships, we would consolidate and stick with the one brand all the way through,” said team boss Stuart Parker. “If you go to Carlin, you’ve got a ladder in single-seaters – you go in as a novice and go up to the top – and we’re mimicking that in the sportscar world.”
Parker believes now is the perfect time to progress to the Formula 1-supporting Supercup as 2021 marks the introduction of the latest Type 992 version of the
911 GT3 Cup car, and will run two cars in the series in collaboration with Dutch Porsche specialist Revs Motorsport.
Runaway 2020 Carrera Cup GB champion Harry King has targeted a Supercup bid, and Parker added:
“We would love him to be part of our programme and we’re working very hard for him to be part of the programme.”