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Great Bookham-based Barwell Motorsport has announced that it is to campaign new Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evos in the 2019 British GT Championship and Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup.
Barwell Motorsport, who took two victories on the way to finishing second in the British GT GT3 Teams Championship, will be entering two cars apiece in the premier UK national GT championship and the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup.
Continuing their partnership for a further year will be Sam De Haan and Jonny Cocker. A new Am driver will be joining the team to be paired with an official Lamborghini Squadra Corsa factory driver, the name of the new driver to be announced in the coming weeks.
MD of Barwell Motorsport Mark Lemmer is delighted to extend the team’s relationship with Lamborghini Squadra Corsa.
“We are thrilled to announce the continuation of our highly successful partnership with Lamborghini with the new Huracan GT3 Evo.” said Mark Lemmer. “The Evo is exactly that; a natural evolution of what has already proved to be a fantastic car. We are also privileged to welcome back Leo (Machitski), Adrian (Amstutz), Sam, Jonny and Sandy (Mitchell) as well as our main team partner, Black Bull Scotch Whisky. Also we can’t wait to reveal an exciting driver pairing for BGT in the coming weeks. We have already achieved championship success with Lamborghini but we are keen to add more victories and titles in our quest for further success in both the UK and Europe.”
Sam De Haan is looking to build on a solid debut season in 2018 and challenge for race win s in the 2019 championship.
“I was a complete racing novice just over a year ago, so it’s been a whirlwind last 12 months to go from that to being an overall British GT podium finisher in my first ever full season of racing!” said the Canterbury-based driver. I have had great guidance from Jonny and the guys at Barwell, and they gave me an environment where I can learn and keep improving as well as enjoy my racing. Next season I’m going for race wins and hopefully a crack at the title!”
Jonny Cocker is looking forward to extending the partnership with Sam De Haan and Barwell Motorsport.
“l’m absolutely delighted to be continuing our British GT campaign together with Sam and Barwell Motorsport in the new Huracan GT3 Evo,” said Jonny Cocker. ” It’s plain to see the development that Sam made during 2018, taking a podium at Brands Hatch being the highlight of our season. We knew that year one would be a learning year and year two we would be aiming for the title, and that’s exactly the mindset that we’re carrying into 2019. I can’t wait to get started!”
The British GT season gets underway at Oulton Park on April 20-22.
