Brit GT: RPM set for British GT campaign

RPM will enter a Ford GT for Alex Mortimer and Peter Bamford in a full season of the British GT Championship this season.

The Coventry-based team had already announced that Mortimer and Bamford would share the GT3-spec car in the International GT Open in 2010, and the duo are also now locked in for an assault on the British title.

RPM ran Michael Bentwood and Phillip Walker in Britain last season, with Mortimer taking over from Bentwood towards the end of the year, and the 24-year-old Mortimer is targeting a crack at the title, which he won in 2007.

“Last year we lacked stability with our driver pairing, but this year we should be right in the fight,” he told Motorsport News.

Bamford has raced in the Super GT class, for GT2 machinery, in the GT Open and Le Mans Series for the past few years and drove a Chad Racing Ferrari 430 in British GT in 2008.

“Peter is widely experienced and has learnt a lot while racing in GT2,” said Mortimer. “In the GT Open he was racing against a lot of professional driver pairings, which has really helped his experience.”

Watch the British GT Championship on Motors TV (Sky Channel 413, Virgin Media 545) in 2010.


Andy Wilkinson