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Jetalliance Racing confirms Lotus Evora GT2 entry
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A nice Christmas Eve present comes from Jetalliance Racing this year. The Austrian team has confirmed its plans to run a pair of Lotus Evora GT2 in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup and will become the Lotus factory squad in GT2.
Team owner Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer confirmed the news today. “I’m very pleased that we were able to seal this collaboration before the end of this year, and now I’m really proud to be able to cooperate with the traditional Lotus marque,” said Lichtner-Hoyer.
Jetalliance Racing has confirmed it will field a driver line-up that will be a mixture of pro and amateur racers in the seven rounds of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. More details on the project will be known in early March when the team has planned its official presentation.
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another reason im going to petit le mans again in 2011!! GT2 is gonna be amazing this year in the LMS series and the ALMS!
glad to see a half decent squad running the lotus name, roll on le mans / silverstone
That’s a beauty of a car! Can’t wait to see it in GT2 form!
Apparently lotus was serious about their ambitious racing program. They got the F1 and indy parts underway, now the GT project. Only the LM prototype and GP2 parts remain.
It seems a bit much to me. Hopefully they’re well funded, if not they should’ve rolled them out year by year.
I think the Lotus F1 program is under a different, umbrella. But with that team always in the news. I kinda lost track, and may be wrong now.
The Tony Fernandes run lotus-cosworth team was a separate entity.
But the newly named lotus-renault F1 operation is the real factory team. They will also be backing this effort. And are the ones who sponsor the KV racing car in Indycar as well. They’re also looking into GP2 and LMP2 racing.
It’ll be interesting to watch the development of the Evora. The chassis will hopefully be a known quantity from the low tuned Lotus racing formulae. And it’s another stylish GT being run in GT2 by an experienced team.
Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, Spyker, Aston V8 hopefully, Lotus, maybe the Giroix Lambo’s, and we’ll have to see about the Panoz. Roll on 2011.
Beautiful car, GT2 is geting better! It´s time for a English race car.
Time for an english race car??? That’s a slap in the face to aston martin. They’ve put in the effort to keep british sports car fans celebrating and well amused. Even the jaguar was a factory effort (a low budget effort, but still factory backed.)
F1 has to be envious of this GT2 field.
What’s the combined budget for the F1, GP2, GP3, LMP2, GT2, GT4 and Indycar programs? Where does the funding for all of these programs come from?
Lotus the british car company is actually owned by Proton which is malaysia’s largest car manufacturer. With billions in assets. They had backed Tony Fernandes to start the F1 operation.
But since Renault proved to be a strong team and was available for the taking they figured they would jump on that instead. I would have as well.
As far as volume of cars sold they’re twice the size of the Porsche brand.
A season of F1 for a midlevel team probably $150-200 million for 2 cars, a season of GP2 $3 million for 2 cars.
Beyond that everything else varies so much. The F1 operation alone could be 50 percent of their racing budget.
@ Everyone:
Is this the rennaisance of the GT2 category? With so many awesome cars racing, the next few years are gonna be special.
Can’t wait for the F458 GT2 to replace the fantastic F430 GT2.
Oh yeah, there’s the Mclaren MP14-12c (or whatever name they came up with).
British Dominance once more? I can but dream…….
pat on the back ACO!!
As I count it, there are now 11 GT2 chassis manufacturers looking to take part in Le Mans/ALMS/LMS/ILMC
Ferrari 458 – Risi, AF Corsa, Hankook, EMS, CRS (The last 3 may run the 430 for 2011)
Porsche 911 – Falken Tyre, Lizards, Felbemeyer, IMSA Matmut, Scuderia Italia
Aston Martin V8 Vantage – JMW Motorsport, Jota
Spyker C8 – Spyker Squadron
Corvette ZR1.R – Corvette Racing
BMW M3 – Schnitzer Motorsport, Rahal Letterman Racing
Jagaur XKR – Rocketsport Racing (Hopefully with two cars to continue with development)
Lotus Evora – Jetalliance (with two cars, as we see)
Ford GT – Robertson Racing (Also with two cars, I hope)
Lamborghini LP560-4 – West Racing (the new two-car Mexican team with Yokohama)
Panoz – Atlas (probably the least likely, but hey, it exists)
Outside of F1, I can’t think of any international series with this many chassis competing over a season, and there may still be more!
Lets go 2011!!
@ William
AF Corsa is running a BMW powered Lola in LMP2 next year
Add Labre to the corvette C6
Panoz could have PTG
Ford GT will have ACS Express (was at Petit)
Really?? When did this AF Corsa news come out?
Who is set to be Ferrari’s factory team in Europe for 2011? I’ve heard that CRS has a tie-in with the new Mclaren project, but otherwise they would be a good bet.
@William,
check the “marianticmotorsports” website and the “endurance info” website