After challenging the Asian competition for a full season in 2019, Triple Eight Racing Engineering will stay at home in 2021, building its program around the new FANATEC GT World Challenge Australia series.
There isn't much about the 2021 program that will change from the 2019 one that tackled the FANATEC GT World Challenge Asia series, where the Australian team had a partnership with Johor Motorsport Racing, having the Prince Jeffri Ibrahim sharing driving time with Supercars and GT3 ace Shane van Gisbergen and Jazeman Jaafar in the Pro-Am Cup, scoring a class win at Yeongam while having other three class podiums in the season.
Along with the change of series, which can be said that's returning to known ground since the series was the Australian GT until last year, the other major change for Triple Eight is the car, jumping into the new Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo that was released to customers last year, which keeps them in pace with top tier Mercedes customers as well with the home competition, considering that Melbourne Performance Centre has a pair of Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evos at disposal.
With GT World Challenge Australia and REPCO Supercars sharing The Bend Motorsport Park, van Gisbergen won't be available for GT racing, which means Triple Eight will have to look after a replacement driver to join Ibrahim for that specific weekend.
The FANATEC GT World Challenge Australia series will start the 2021 season on 20 and 21 February at Phillip Island.
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