EMMA SG & EMMA ASIA 2011 - HOTstuff Magazine

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NGTC TOYOTAS
IN THE WORKS Tom Chilton has given the thumbs up
for Team Aon’s new ‘Global’ Ford Focus
after giving the car its debut test at
The Speedworks Motorsport and Dynojet Toyota
Avensis being built to the Dunlop MSA British
Touring Car Championship’s new Next Generation
Touring Car technical regulations are continuing
to take shape.
Both teams’ cars have now been through the paint shop ready for GPR to begin fitting
components to them. Speedworks’ car will be driven by Ginetta G50 graduate Tony
Hughes and Dynojet’s by G50 champion Frank Wrathall.
In addition, even though they are not entering a factory team, Toyota GB has announced
it is funding an NGTC engine programme for customer teams fielding its Avensis model
in the BTCC.
Lam Seng Hang, distributor for Westlake Tires, treated their premium dealers to an
incentive trip to China. The expense paid five day trip included a visit to the Westlake
Tires factory in Hangzhou.
2011 BtCC tIMetaBLes
aVaILaBLe NOW
2011’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship race events timetables are now available
on their website, which allows fans ample time to plan their travel arrangements.
This year’s championship will feature nine different venues in eight different counties
spanning the length and breadth of the UK and will come to a head on Silverstone’s short,
high-speed, thrill-a-minute National circuit in mid-October.
Here’s a brief glance at each race day (Sunday), some of which begin with the ever-popular
Pit Lane Walkabout.
DATES
03 Apr
17 Apr
01 May
05 Jun
19 Jun
07 Aug
04 Sept
18 Sept
02 Oct
16 Oct
ROUNDS/ LOCATIONS
Rd 1 - Brands Hatch Indy, ten races, starts 09.10am with pit lane
walkabout.
Rd 2 - Donington Park, 11 races, start 09.20am with Porsche Carrera Cup.
Rd 3 - Thruxton, ten races, starts 09.45am with pit lane walkabout
(incl. lunchtime drivers’ parade); racing starts 10.45am with
Ginetta GT Supercup.
Rd 4 - Oulton Park, nine races, starts 10.35am with pit lane walkabout
(followed by drivers’ parade); racing starts 12.15pm with BTCC.
Rd 5 - Croft, nine race, starts 10.20am with pit lane walkabout (followed
by drivers’ parade); racing starts at 12.10pm with BTCC.
Rd 6 - Snetterton, 11 races, starts 09.10am with Porsche Carrera Cup.
Rd 7 - Knockhill, ten races, starts 09.30am with Ginetta GT Supercup (inc.
two ‘guest races’ TBC).
Rd 8 - Rockingham, ten races, starts 10.00am with Porsche Carrera Cup.
Rd 9 - Brands Hatch GP, ten races, starts 09.10am with pit lane
walkabout; racing starts at 10.00am with Formula Renault UK.
Rd 10 - Silverstone National, ten races, starts 09.30am with Formula
Renault UK.
NEW FOCUS HAS
CHILTON’S APPROVAL
16-year-old Female Kart Racer Beitske
Visser, from the Netherlands, has
been honoured at the CIK-FIA Awards
Ceremony and presented with the
Joint CIK-FIA Women & Motor Sport
Commission Award by Commission
President Michèle Mouton for her
achievements in the 2010 CIK-FIA
Karting Championships.
Brands Hatch. The car will make its world
competition debut in this year’s Dunlop MSA
British Touring Car Championship with the
Arena-run Aon outfit and for 2011, it is also
switching from LPG to petrol-fuelled Fordbased
Next Generation Touring Car-spec
engines prepared by Mountune.
Chilton was able to complete
55 laps during the
afternoon, which
was testament to
the Arena crew.
NEW SUBARU
LIVERY REVEALED
Former APRC driver Hayden Paddon has released an artist’s impression of the new
livery for the Subaru he will be driving in the 2011 P-WRC.
Designed by Kieran at Granger Design the car now incorporates the Kiwi image with
the black and the silver fern, while the green carries on from previous years. The roof
will also include a large Silver Fern.
JOINT AWARD FOR
FEMALE KART RACER
In 2010, Beitske became the first
female driver to ever win a European
Championship round in a gearbox
class when she beat 52 other racers to win Race 1 at the second round of the CIK-FIA European
KZ2 Championship series in Varennes, France. A significant achievement for such a young
aspiring driver, having come out fourth overall from a field of 82 racers, at the end of the
four-race Championship.
CANCELLATION OF AFOS
KOREA
CKMP, the Asian Festival Of Speed
(AFOS) Promoter in Korea has notified
that they are unable to proceed
with the AFOS event scheduled for
8th May 2011, due to problems with
the circuit owner KAVO.
For GT Asia Series they have established a cooperation
with Sepang Circuit to support the
F1 event in Malaysia as a non-championship
round. JK Racing Asia Series will now attend
the Guangdong Circuit, China on August 14th
and the Asian Touring Car Series will now start
1 month later on 24th April in conjunction
with HTCC also in Guangdong.