Optimum Motorsport will defend its British GT Championship GT3 Drivers’ title in 2019 with a brand new Aston Martin Vantage GT3.
The team, which won the GT3 championship last year with factory driver Jonny Adam and Flick Haigh, will return to the GT3 class with Ollie Wilkinson and 2007 BGT champion Bradley Ellis, who took on the GT Open season with it last year. They will race in the Silver Cup class.
As a pair in GT Open, Wilkinson and Ellis won a pair of races and finished on the podium a further two times during the season.
“2018 was superb for us as we adapted to and showed our engineering strengths from the very start of the season,” stated Team Principal Shaun Goff with reference to the sensational victory at Oulton Park. “We went up against some very tough competition running the same equipment as us and over the season, our consistency and speed paid dividends.
“2019 brings a new chapter for us with the new GT3 car and again we expect it to be a very tough battle in such a competitive championship,” Goff continued.
“It’s a new championship for Ollie and we can’t forget that this is just his second full season at this level and that he’s still learning. Together with Bradley, who has a tasted championship success in British GT, they have already proved to be a winning combination in GT Open, so even with the Silver-Silver disadvantages in terms of ballast, we look forward to the new season with optimism.”
This adds to the team’s two-car assault on the British GT season, with new Vantage GT4s. The second of the team’s two driver pairs for its GT4 campaign was announced yesterday.
