With the start of the GT4 European Series also on the bill for this weekend at Monza there’s good news aplenty for the Series after it suffered more than most from the effects of COVID-19’s impact on entries.
The Series returns to Monza after missing 2020 due to the crisis – pictured above is the race from 2019 with the grid set to look very different this year!
With a raft of late entries the full-season total is now up to 41 cars – more than double that of 2020!
Team Fullmotorsport has added a second Audi R8 LMS GT4 to its GT4 European Series programme.
French drivers Christophe Hamon and Michael Blanchemain have teamed up for a full-season effort in the Am Cup of GT4 European Series. Hamon currently leads the Am category in the FFSA French GT Championship after a win and a second-place finish at Nogaro over the weekend.
The French squad had already confirmed one full-season entry earlier, with Romain Iannetta and Eric Clément set to compete in the Pro-Am Cup this season. Team
Fullmotorsport is a front-runner in the Am category of the French championship, finishing in the top three of the Am Cup teams’ championship in 2019-2020 and will be hoping to score international success in this year’s GT4 European Series.
Italian squad Trivellato Racing will make its GT4 European Series debut at Monza with the support of Villorba Corse.
Trivellato Racing by Villorba Corse will enter a pair of Mercedes-AMG GT4s in the championship.
Between 2016 and 2018, Villorba Corse successfully campaigned the Maserati GranTurismo MC GT4 in the SRO Motorsports Group GT4 series, clinching the GT4 Central European Cup Teams’ title in 2018 as well as several class wins in both the GT4 European Series and the GT4 Central European Cup. This season, Trivellato Racing by Villorba Corse already won the Gulf 12 Hours in Bahrain.
“Villorba Corse is pleased to return to compete in a series where the team has been one of the top contenders in the past. We believe it will be even more competitive, but we are back with great motivations,” said Amadio. “We are happy to bring a famous brand such as Trivellato to an European level again and to double our commitment from one to two Mercedes-AMG GT4s. For racing history and palmarès, the ideal horizon of our team can only find its fulfilment in the international dimension of our sport.”
“Close to reaching an important milestone such as 100 years of Trivellato, we can only be proud of this partnership with Villorba Corse. That will allow us to compete in the most important international circuits again, feeling once more the unique emotions of our racing history. We wish good luck to Raimondo Amadio’s team and to all our competitors. Trivellato Racing is back,” added Luca Trivellato, CEO of Trivellato Group.
Allied-Racing has revealed the names of the drivers that will race its three Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 CS MRs in the GT4 European Series this season.
In recent years, the team from Huglfing, Germany fielded two cars in the GT4 European Series. After winning the Pro-Am Cup with Jan Kasperlik and Bastian Buus in 2020, Allied-Racing will expand to three cars for the upcoming campaign.
With 2020 Pro-Am champion Jan Kasperlik shifting his focus to a new challenge in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS and Danish talent Bastian Buus set to race in the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, Allied-Racing will have a new driver line-up for 2021, including four drivers who will make their GT4 European Series debuts.
Former GT4 European Series champion Nicolaj Møller-Madsen and 19-year-old German driver Joel Sturm will contest the Silver Cup in the first Porsche with number 22. Møller-Madsen’s compatriot Alexander Hartvig will share the #26 Porsche with experienced Swiss driver Joel Camathias, who moves over from fellow Porsche team Centri Porsche Ticino. The third Allied-Racing Porsche will be driven by German drivers Constantin Dressler and Dennis Fetzer. The #20 will also be in the Pro-Am class.
In the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Allied-Racing team owner Kasperlik will share the #23 Porsche 911 GT3 R with former GT4 European Series racer Nic Schöll and Julien Apothéloz.
Selleslagh Racing Team has confirmed its driver pairings for the opening round of the 2021 GT4 European Series at Monza.
A regular competitor in the GT4 European Series since 2018, the Belgian team will field two Mercedes-AMG GT4s. Both cars are entered on a race-by-race basis, but are set to compete in all six rounds of the season.
Selleslagh Racing Team will run the #34 car for young drivers O’Neill Muth and Luca Bosco and the #35 for experienced drivers Johan Vannerum and Sven Van Laere.
Muth and Bosco will step up from karting to GT racing. While Muth has a year of French F4 experience under his belt, his Italian teammate has no international single seater or GT experience.
Vannerum and Van Laere know the series well and have been competing in the Am Cup in previous seasons. Vannerum won his class in the opening race of the 2018 season and claim five class wins in 2019. Last season he competed in four races, taking three podium finishes. Van Laere shared the Equipe Verschuur McLaren with Liesette Braams in two rounds in 2018.
Team owner Patrick Selleslagh is looking forward to competing in the 2021 season.”We will compete in the GT4 European Series, but have decided to enter on a race-by-race program. But we will do a full season with two cars.”
“As in our genes, we opt for a young duo, namely O’Neill Muth and Luca Bosco. They both come from international karting competitions, know each other well and that strengthens the bond. I am convinced that they will do a great job,” added Selleslagh.
“Our second duo is 100% Belgian with Johan Vannerum and Sven Van Laere. Their aim is clear: to score as well as possible in the Am Cup. Johan and Sven have a lot of experience, know the car and the team well. On that level, we are ready to start the season in good conditions,” concluded Selleslagh.
