EQUIPE SERIES GET OVER 100 SILVER STONE ENTRIES
Organiserssecureextragridfortheopeningroundoftheseries
Equipe GTS organisers have secured a second grid for the opening meeting of the season after the initial 40 spaces were filled within two-and-a-half hours last month.
The popular series, which caters for FIA Appendix K machinery, will now have two grids at the MG Car Club’s season opener on the Silverstone National Circuit on April 7. The two races will be 35 minutes, instead of the originally planned 40, to ensure they fit into the timetable.
“I’m really pleased that we have been able to accommodate all the drivers,” said co-organiser John Pearson. “The interesting thing about doing it on a first-come first-served basis is if you look at the original entry list we’d got some new drivers and a lot of our regular drivers hadn’t managed to get their place.
“It will be a great start to the year but one round doesn’t make a season.”
Equipe GTS’S new sister series, Equipe Pre ’63, will also launch that weekend and is full too.
“As a new series, you just don’t know [what entries will be like],” added Pearson. “There is a number of crossover cars between the two series, with models like the Elites, Healey 1000s and Morgans, which can do both.
“But the new series has brought in a lot of new drivers that haven’t raced for us before. We’ve got a lot of three-litre Healeys and MGAS. It’s a nice cross section of cars that represent what we’re trying to achieve. So we could be running 120 cars, we’re currently on 108.”
Equipe Classic Racing has also already secured extra track time at its next meeting at Brands Hatch on April 28/29 because of the level of interest received.