A nail takes out another nail and the recent breakup between Strakka Racing and McLaren GT has given rise to an old love. While Strakka Racing has broken its agreement as a team of factory McLaren in the Blancpain GT Series to be one of the facilities of Mercedes, from the formation of Woking have opted for an old acquaintance to support your project in the contest of Stéphane Ratel. Garage 59 will again be the team of reference McLaren GT in the Blancpain GT Series with a multi-input multi-McLaren 650S GT3 after missing the season 2017 almost the entire.
Strakka Racing took on the role of computer in reference to McLaren in 2017, which travelled some way to Garage 59, which sought other targets in the International GT Open after winning the Endurance Cup in 2016. Despite this, the team made a few appearances spot in the championship with the reason for the appointment in Silverstone -home race – and the 24 Hours of Spa. However, Garage 59 will go all out to Blancpain, with the support of McLaren GT, with at least one car in Pro-Am and multiple entries in the Pro class.
it Is expected that the official drivers from McLaren GT, between that figure for the sixth year Rob Bell, are protagonists in the ‘line up’ of Garage 59 in the season 2018 of the Blancpain GT Series, while the young riders that make up the Development Programme, McLaren GT, could well have a place in the expanded effort that Garage 59 will be in GT4. In fact, the team will be in track two McLaren 570S GT4 Championship British GT and even from the team explores a potential entry with two other cars in the GT4 European Series.
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