Brit GT: United Autosports announce expansion plans

Anglo-American outfit United Autosports has announced plans for a two-car assault in the British GT Championship next season.

The official Audi customer team, founded last winter by Zak Brown and Richard Dean, has raced a pair of Audi R8 LMS cars in the FIA GT3 European Championship this year and also competed in the Spa 24 Hours earlier this month. It contested the opening British GT round at Oulton Park in April as a pre-cursor to its European campaign, but will run two cars in both championships in 2011.

“United Autosports will continue in the FIA series but aims to complement this with a full British GT series campaign,” Dean confirmed. “(Driver) Matt Bell has built a relationship with us at national level and is now doing a great job for us in the FIA series.

“It also makes sense to race in the UK as we’re based in Leeds. We already have a major UK sponsor (West London Audi) and are in negotiation with other potential ‘home’ sponsors.

“United Autosports made its race debut in the British GT Championship. I’ve been very impressed with the quality and professionalism of the British series and look forward to regularly being a part of it next season.”

The team has also confirmed that it will return to the Spa 24 Hours, where it finished as best of the Audi runners in GT3, next year and will also represent Audi at the legendary twice-around-the-clock race at the Nurburgring.

“In addition to the FIA GT3 European Championship and British GT Championship programmes, we aim to contest the Nurburgring and Spa 24 Hour races with the Audi R8 LMS.

“We’ve been extremely happy with the support United Autosports has received from Audi in our first year. We want to be a part of the German manufacturer’s customer plans again next year in preparation for an even bigger schedule that I’m aiming to achieve for 2012 and beyond.”

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Andy Wilkinson

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