The racing season for three Lamborghini teams will already begin in the middle of January with the 24h of Dubai. For the first time starting in the fight at the Emirates will be Team Blancpain Reiter with a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 GT3 in the A6 class. Therefor team principal Hans Reiter pins his hopes on a loyal drivers line-up.
Head of the team is Peter Kox. The Dutchman won the ADAC GT Masters 2010 for Reiter Engineering togehter with Albert von Thurn und Taxis and is also driver in the FIA GT1 world championship. He shares his Gallardo with Marc Hayek, Nico Pronk and Bernhard Muller. Hayek and Pronk fought together with Reiter in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo last year, the GT brand cup of Lamborghini. First experience in GT3 Mark Hayek also gained at a run of the British GT championship together with Peter Kox.
With Bernhard Muller a pilot from the first days of Reiter Engineering returns to the team. Muller competed in races in the FIA GT championship over 10 years ago with a Reiter Lamborghini Diablo, the very first GT racing car developed by Reiter Engineering.
“I think we are very lucky this time to have such a harmonious drivers crew. If we as team do not make mistakes we absolutely can be under the top 5″, says the team principal.
Next to Blancpain Reiter the teams Rhino‘s Leipert and Gulf Team First will compete with a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 GT3 at the 24h of Dubai from the 13th – 15th January 2011 on the Dubai Autodrome.
The 24h of Dubai start on Thursday, the 13th of January 2011 with the free practice and qualifying. The race starts on Friday, the 14th of Januray 2011 at the 2 p.m. local time.
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