PROTOTYPES JOIN MASTERS SERIES
Brit entries join series for 1995-2002 le man scars
Aaron Scott’s Akron Sport team is expanding to field a pair of Chevrolet-powered ORECA 09 prototypes in the Masters Endurance Legends series in 2018, after testing the car at Brands Hatch last month.
Historic sportscar and Formula 1 racers Keith Frieser and Tommy Dreelan will compete in the championship for Le Mans cars from 1995-2002 driving a car each.
The Sutton Coldfield squad, which had already shaken down Canadian Frieser’s chassis in Spain, ran Irishman Dreelan’s example of the French-built machine for the first time at Brands Hatch, during which it concentrated on achieving baseline settings.
ELMS GT class winner Scott, who has raced Dreelan’s F1 March 761 and Williams FW08, and co-driven Dreelan’s Spice and Porsche 962, will continue to share with the Celtic Speed boss in historics.
Also at Brands was Le Mans podium finisher Nicolas Minassian, who was reunited with a V12 version of the Peugeot 908 he used to finish second at Le Mans in 2008.
Minassian drove a V8 variant of the car at the prologue event for the new series at Spa last year, and completed sub-42s laps around Brands Indy in the car at the test last month. He was shaking down the car which will race at the same circuit later in the year with Peter Porter at the wheel.
Christophe d’ansembourg’s Aston Martin DBR1-2 has been rebuilt by CGA over the winter and is awaiting its V12 engine to compete in the seven round series. It visits Imola, Brands, Le Castellet, Silverstone, Nurburgring, Spa and Dijon.