Rollcentre fly in New Car from USA for Spa

26 August 2003

The Rollcentre Racing team has gone to enormous lengths to contest round ten of the BRDC British GT Championship at Spa-Francorchamps on 31 August. The team has flown in a replacement Mosler MT900R from the USA for the event in order to give Tom Herridge a shot at claiming the overall title.

After a torrid couple of weeks, which involved accidents in testing at Castle Combe and in the British GT race at Thruxton, the team will go to Spa with the MT900R that it used in the Daytona 24-hours earlier this year."Our car took a 7G hit almost head on into a barrier at Thruxton," explains team boss Martin Short. "It stood up to the impact incredibly well, but unfortunately the tub has got a crack in it, and its not the work of a week to put it right." Having thought they may have to miss the Spa race, another solution arose. "The Mosler factory stepped in and has allowed us to use its own car whilst we rebuild ours."The car was airfreighted from Miami and the Rollcentre crew collected it from Heathrow on Saturday morning. With the team's own engine and gearbox fitted, the car is scheduled to leave for Spa on Thursday morning.

Joining Short and Herridge in the car at Spa will be Joao Barbosa, the works Mosler driver and a class winner at Daytona in February. "We are all keen to give Tom the best support possible for his and our championship aspirations," says Short. "We just hope that our run of bad luck has now passed and we can get back on track."

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