BARC / Dunlop Sport Maxx Cup Gathers Momentum for 2007

14 June 2006

The BARC is pleased to announce that the proposed new series for production based saloon and sports coupe cars has taken another huge leap forward with the announcement of two new marketing partners.

Triple Eight Vehicle Engineering will produce a turn-key race car based on the hugely successful Vauxhall Astra VXR and will assist the Series Organisers in providing technical expertise.

EVO Magazine will assist the Series Organisers with promotion and publicity, having already helped to create the class system of the series by use of their published vehicle test data.

Dunlop have already committed their full weight to the new series by taking headline sponsorship and promising a place on the 2007 Dunlop Great and British Motorsport Festival meetings, and subject to support, the associated television coverage.

BARC Competitions Manager Dale Wells said: "The BARC is enormously grateful to Dunlop, Triple Eight and EVO for their unstinting support of this project. It is some years since we have seen purist production based racing in the UK and this has been sadly missed. We have an obligation to bring top class motorsport to the masses and this is definitely one way that we can achieve it. The current indications show us that we already have 18 competitors who are intending joining us in a variety of cars including: Renault Clio, Peugeot 106, MG ZS, Honda Civic Type R, BMW 330, Mazda RX8, Citroen C4, Mini Cooper S, Volvo, MG ZR, Vauxhall Astra VXR, Subaru, Ford Focus and Alfa Romeo 147. This is absolutely fantastic."

See 2006 series calendar for Great and British Festivals

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