ELITE IN NEW EUROPEAN McLAREN ATTACK
Norfolk-based multiple-champion squad to race two all-new Arturas in GT4 European Series
Multiple championship-winning Elite Motorsport will embark on a new continental endurance adventure in 2023 racing a pair of all-new McLaren Artura GT4s in the GT4 European Series.
The Norfolk-based squad has totalled considerable title success across several Ginetta championships in the past eight years, and also expanded recently into single-seater racing and won multiple races in this year’s GB3 and GB4 contests.
The European move replaces Elite’s effort in the Ginetta GT4 Supercup – which is scrapped for 2023 – wherein it won the 2019 and ’21 drivers’titles with Harry King and Adam
Smalley respectively.
The 2023 GT4 Euro series has six rounds across mainland Europe, each featuring two one-hour races, plus there’s a season-ending six-hour nonchampionship race. Discussions are underway at Elite with potential drivers for the campaign. The team is scheduled to take delivery early next year of its new Artura GT4s, the successor model to the championship-winning 570S.
Elite owner and manager Eddie Ives said: “It opens up fantastic opportunities for Elite and our drivers to go GT racing for the future throughout the world which makes the Artura GT4 the perfect replacement for our GT4 Supercup squad.
“We should have our first Artura delivered soon so that we can start testing early in the new year allowing us to hit the ground running by the time we head to Monza in April for the first races.
“Our plan is the full season in the
GT4 European Series but we may do selected races in other GT4 championships as well.”