Applications sought for Motorsport Games
Britain’s motorsport federation has asked potential competitors to apply for the chance to represent their country in the inaugural Olympics-style Motorsport Games.
Motorsport UK is seeking representatives to compete in the six categories – GT, touring cars, Formula 4, drifting, karting slalom and e-sports – that will comprise the Fia-run event, which takes place at Vallelunga in Italy from October 31-November 3.
Motorsport Games is an expansion of the amateur-based FIA GT Nations Cup, which took place for the first time in Bahrain last December and was won by a team of Turkish drivers.
Motorsport UK chief executive Hugh Chambers, who spent a decade working in Olympic sports before returning to motorsport, told MN: “We’ve had a lot of interest in the GT category, and a lot of debate on the ways to select drivers and a team for that category. Should we choose current [championship] leaders, last year’s champions? None of these are perfect. So we felt it appropriate to open it up to drivers and teams to apply.”
Competitors are asked to provide their own funding, but Chambers said this could evolve from 2020: “We could look for a team sponsor. It’s reasonable to expect GT teams to include it in their budget, but we could fund karting slalom drivers – it wouldn’t be uniform across all disciplines.”
Potential entrants, who must hold a British passport, are asked to fill in an entry form from the
FIA website and send completed entries to race@motorsportuk.org by midday on Friday August 30.