FIA GT Championship

RAM Racing enters former Konrad car for 2005 FIA GT Championship

Polish team RAM Racing is due to take part in a limited campaign in the 2005 season of the FIA GT Championship. The team will also be competing in the Polish GT Championship, which clashes with Silverstone and Spa. They will enter a Saleen, which was formerly the yellow car entered by Konrad Motorsport, and which was a frequent pole setter, in the hands of first Jean-Marc Gounon and then Walter Lechner Jr.

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The car, in its new livery, will be driven by Polish drivers Max Stanco and Rafal Janus. Although Janus is a relative newcomer, having started racing just a year ago, he won the Polish Endurance Championship with Stanco last year, in a Porsche 911 GT2.

Stanco, the son of a well-known architect, started his sporting career in ski-ing. He moved to motorsport in 1982, first with a motorbike and then started racing cars in 1999, in the Polish Championship, with a BMW M3 E36 GTR. He won the Polish Championship in 2003, in a Porsche 911 GT2, and also took part in a number of rounds of the FIA GT Championship. In 2004 he won the Polish GT Championship in both the Sprint and Endurance categories, as well as competing in the European Alfa Challenge.

RAM Racing plans to take part in as many FIA GT Championship rounds as possible. There is a close cooperation between RAM and Konrad Motorsport, dating from 2000, when Max Stanco bought a Porsche 911 GT2 from Konrad. Both teams should test at Misano on 1-3 March. RAM Racing was created at the end of last year by Rafal Janus, Max Stanco and Andrea Mancini - who will drive in the European Alfa Challenge. The team manager will be Dawid Bedkowski.