TWO-CAR LINE-UP FOR TEAM PARKER RACING IN PORSCHE SUPERCUP
Multiple British title-winning team makes full-time step up to F1 support for 2021
Team Parker Racing will field a two-car team in the Formula 1-supporting Porsche Supercup this season.
The Mallory Park-based squad took four Porsche Carrera Cup GB titles last year. It ran Harry King to the overall crown and took Esmee Hawkey and Justin Sherwood to the Pro-Am and Am crowns, plus it bagged the teams’prize. Parker also ran cars in the new Porsche Sprint Challenge GB in a partseason ahead of an expanded campaign in 2021 (see right).
As well as revealing its plans to run a Porsche 911 GT3 in British GT this term (see below), Stuart Parker’s squad has confirmed a link-up with Revs Motorsport for its maiden fulltime attack on the Supercup.
Revs Motorsport boss Patrick de Groot worked alongside Parker in 2020, engineering the GB fleet of racers. He also has a successful background in the Supercup.
Parker said: “We are extremely happy to be competing in the Porsche Supercup and cannot wait to get started with this exciting new challenge. Team Parker Racing has always been a big supporter of the Porsche onemake series, so it was a natural decision to offer drivers the chance to climb from the Sprint Challenge GB, through the Carrera Cup GB, and then into the Supercup.
“We will be under no illusions that it will be a learning experience for us as we’ll be up against some well-run, experienced race teams, but we might surprise one or two who underestimate us.
“It will be a new chapter in the team’s history, but one which we are keen to begin.”
No drivers have been confirmed for the new arm of the team, while King’s plans for 2021 have also yet to be revealed.
Team Parker Racing has put its British Touring Car Championship team on hold. It was a race winner in 2019 with Stephen Jelley driving a BMW 125i M Sport.