Project X Announce British GT Campaign

11 October 2004

The much-rumoured and long awaited Project-X team have announced that, with the support of MG Sport & Racing, they will be entering an MG XPower SV in the 2005 British GT Championship. This announcement marks the start of a three-year campaign which will see the SV compete in the British GT Championship Cup Class (GT3) in 2005, climbing to the British GT NGT Class (GT2) in 2006 and the FIA World GT Championship in 2007.

Project-X will be taking delivery of a rolling chassis later this week to commence the construction of a GT3 SV. Racing manager Jay Bullock, of Cambridge Motorsport, is working very closely with the designers of the road car and confidence is growing in the abilities of the first motorsport incarnation of the MG SV, which is due to be completed in time for the Autosport International Show at the NEC in January.

Project-X is talking with a number of prospective drivers who are able to bring the necessary sponsorship to the project.

"We are aiming to confirm the long-term services of Indian racing driver Phiroze Bilimoria in the next few weeks", confirmed Team Manager Paul Keeshaw. Phiroze will be in action in an MG SV at Rockingham Motor Speedway this week, where he is being filmed by BBC2 for the Desi DNA programme, due to be broadcast in March 2005.

MSportUK is officially supporting Project X and the latest news and images will be available online here, and at the official Project X site, www.proj-x.info.

Visit the official Project X web site.

See 2004 series calendar for British GT Championship

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