Really good news for the american motorsport this week.
The Chris Dyson-led Dyson Racing is going back on track, after a nine months hiatus since their last race, the 2013 Petit Le Mans in Road Atlanta, which marked the end of the LMP1s in american motorsport and the retirement of their iconic Lola B12/60-Mazda.
But this time Dyson isn't bringing a Le Mans Prototype. Model and competition changes as they hit the road into Pirelli World Challenge with a new for 2014 Bentley Continental GT3.
Added to the return of Dyson Racing, the next race, in the Road America circuit features the return of Bentley to the United States since 2003 12 Hours of Sebring, where Bentley ran two models of the Bentley Speed 8, a car that is remembered as one of the only that beat Audi in Le Mans.
The selected drivers to that task have strong links to both sides of the project.
Butch Leitzinger, who will drive the Continental GT3 in the Road America weekend, was in the EXP Speed 8 program that took podium in the 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans, and he is a long-time Dyson Racing driver, with years of experience in Dyson's team.
The other one is brit Guy Smith, that was the driver on the 2003 Le Mans victory, and was driving the P1 Dyson-Lola in American Le Mans Series last year. Smith comes with valuable experience in the new car, as he is one of the M-Sport Bentley drivers in the Blancpain Endurance Series effort, and even going to USA with a victory in the Silverstone round of the championship.
The idea for 2014 is that Smith, Leitzinger and Chris Dyson rotate driving duties in the Continental GT3 for the rest of the Pirelli World Challenge calendar, and in 2015 they will enter for a full-season campaign.
Good to see that, independing of the championship, there's a classic team going back to racing, after some hard-to-believe retirements this year.
Photos: Facebook
The Chris Dyson-led Dyson Racing is going back on track, after a nine months hiatus since their last race, the 2013 Petit Le Mans in Road Atlanta, which marked the end of the LMP1s in american motorsport and the retirement of their iconic Lola B12/60-Mazda.
But this time Dyson isn't bringing a Le Mans Prototype. Model and competition changes as they hit the road into Pirelli World Challenge with a new for 2014 Bentley Continental GT3.
Added to the return of Dyson Racing, the next race, in the Road America circuit features the return of Bentley to the United States since 2003 12 Hours of Sebring, where Bentley ran two models of the Bentley Speed 8, a car that is remembered as one of the only that beat Audi in Le Mans.
The selected drivers to that task have strong links to both sides of the project.
Butch Leitzinger, who will drive the Continental GT3 in the Road America weekend, was in the EXP Speed 8 program that took podium in the 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans, and he is a long-time Dyson Racing driver, with years of experience in Dyson's team.
The other one is brit Guy Smith, that was the driver on the 2003 Le Mans victory, and was driving the P1 Dyson-Lola in American Le Mans Series last year. Smith comes with valuable experience in the new car, as he is one of the M-Sport Bentley drivers in the Blancpain Endurance Series effort, and even going to USA with a victory in the Silverstone round of the championship.
The idea for 2014 is that Smith, Leitzinger and Chris Dyson rotate driving duties in the Continental GT3 for the rest of the Pirelli World Challenge calendar, and in 2015 they will enter for a full-season campaign.
Good to see that, independing of the championship, there's a classic team going back to racing, after some hard-to-believe retirements this year.
Photos: Facebook
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