American Le Mans Series
West Racing Team confirms Pastorelli and Schwager
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The Yokohama Tire Corporation-sponsored West Racing Team announced Nicky Pastorelli and Dominik Schwager will be its drivers for the 2011 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season. The two veteran racers, who last year were teammates in the FIA GT1 championship, will campaign West Racing’s first ADVAN® A005 tire-shod Lamborghini in the ALMS GT Class.
“West Racing owner Eduardo Espindola has hired two, top-notch seasoned pros,” said Andrew Briggs, Yokohama senior manager of motorsports. “The competition will be tough, but Nicky and Dominik have experience racing Lamborghinis, so we’re anticipating an exciting, successful season.”
“I’m proud to be part of the West-Yokohama racing team,” said the Dutch-born/Italian-bred Pastorelli, who won the European F3000 championship in 2004. “It’s a great challenge to be part of a new project and help make it successful.”
The ALMS campaign will reunite the German-born Schwager with Yokohama. In 2004, he was a driver of the ADVAN-shod Toyota Supra in the Japanese Super GT series. “I’ve always been interested in ALMS racing, so this is a tremendous opportunity. Because we’re a new team, I know the task ahead is going to be demanding, but thanks to technology partners like Yokohama, I know we’ll be competitive.”
“I’m confident Yokohama’s motorsports heritage will be very well represented by Nicky and Dominik and the entire West Racing Team,” said Briggs.
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not a bad lineup. I’d be a little more worried about the car, as it doesnt seem to be very fast on the Le Mans front, but the Gulf team has only done about 4 races with it (Spa, Silverstone, Zuhai, and Dubai) so maybe a full season with a good driver set will lend them some good results.
Well, this actually appears to be the GT3-spec Gallardo which actually ran fairly well in the GT3 championship last year (though how much of that was down to BoP I don’t know), even though there is a GT2 version.
However, Reiter and Gulf both used the GT3 at Spa and Dubai and they didn’t prove to be great at endurance, though they were decently fast. Will be interesting to see how this does in America…
Reiter has built this car entirely brand new to conform to GT2 regulations.
Does this mean that Pastorelli and Schwager will not be with the All Inkl FIA GT1 team this year? Or are they planning on racking up the frequent flyer miles between Europe and North America?
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i want to see that the Lambo will run ALMS with ADVAN’s black and red livery.