Virgo Motorsport Joins British GT

28 July 2003

Virgo Motorsport is the latest team to enter a Ferrari 360 in the GT Cup class of the British GT Championship and plans to join the series at Rockingham this weekend (2/3 August).

The team will field Jim McWhirter's car in a trial outing, and the Irish racer could be partnered by Formula Saloon front-runner Martin Sims for the Rockingham weekend.

Belfast-based McWhirter was a leading Superkart racer before stopping racing in 1984. He returned to the sport last season in the European Ferrari 360 Challenge and continued in the series this year. He made his Pirelli Maranello Ferrari Challenge debut at Donington over the weekend (26/27 July) and will now sample British GT racing.

"We've always had ambitions to run in GT and this is a toe-in-the-water exercise," says team boss Chris Warne. "It may lead to a fuller campaign next year." Having run Ferrari UK entries in the 360 Challenge, Warne has now established Virgo Motorsport and tends the Formula Saloon cars of Garry and Michael Woodcock alongside the Ferrari 360.

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