8000inc launches racing team starting with the F2000
Championship Series
MANASSASS, VA, April 21
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Following their successful involvement
with the CARIFTA games with the AAAB team (Barbados), a prelude to the 2012 Olympics,
8000inc through its new subsidiary 8000inc Racing is excited to
announce that it is backing international racing driver
Brent Gilkes in the highly
competitive F2000 Championship Series. This is the planned stepping
stone to the Formula One circuit. This international race series
which runs at tracks throughout the US and Canada and supports the Indy Cars at the world
famous Watkins Glen circuit in
New York in July, boasts the
highest entry numbers of any open wheel series in North America. The drivers who come from as
far afield as Australia and
Brazil to compete are a mixture of
young drivers striving to make a career in the top echelons of the
sport and veterans who have excelled at the national level and want
to race in a seriously challenging professional level series.
8000inc Racing has been established with goals that start with
F2000 in 2010 but then advancing into either Formula Mazda or
British Formula 3 in 2011/2012 and ultimately targeting the higher
echelons of open wheel racing of Formula 1 either as a team or main
sponsor.
Thomas Kelly CEO of 8000inc said "Obviously I am thrilled that
Lap 2 Racing which has been one of the smaller teams in the series,
approached 8000Inc. The opportunities discussed will open up a new
marketing and publicity avenue for the Group and will allow 8000inc
to realize its targets of a presence at the highest levels now in
Motor Sport complimenting its positions in Athletics and Cricket. I
am confident that our support will help significantly. This support
will allow us to upgrade the aerodynamic package, use new tyres
each weekend and have an engineer from Vallis Motorsport at most
races working on the car. At VIR I think we showed the potential,
running as high as second in the Masters Class in Race 1, before
tangling with another car 2 laps from the end while fighting for
3rd. Now it is a case of building from that and we look forward to
debuting the new car in its complete new livery at Mosport. In 2011
8000Inc Racing plan will be to have 2 professional drivers, in a
series above F2000, we will continue racing in a similar capacity
as today and to target top young drivers into 8000Inc Racing's
program. It would be tremendous if one of those drivers could come
from Barbados and 8000Inc Racing
is already looking further into the future with their support of 2
young local karters.
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SOURCE 8000inc.