Three time British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal will make a rare appearance in endurance racing in a fortnight’s time when he joins KPM Racing, racing under the Milltek Sport banner for the 24 H Series race in Italy, the 12 Hours of Mugello.
Neal will race the team’s successful VW Golf endurance racer, the first time he will ever have raced a diesel powered car.
Neal’s endurance racing cv includes the Willhire 24 Hours at Snetterton in 1991 when he shared a BMW M3 with Dave Wallis and ex Speed Euroseries boss Stuart McCrudden and took the overall win. He’s had a class podium at the Nurburgring 24 Hours too together with a trio of appearances in the Bathurst 100 too in 1998, 2000 and 2008.
Neal did make a one-off appearance in the British GT Championship in 1998 in the Silverstone British Grand Prix support race sharing a Porsche 911 GT1 entered by his family-owned Team Dynamics and shared with the late David Leslie, the pair taking third place overall in a packed field.
www.RadioLeMans.com will have full coverage of the two part race on 13 & 14 March
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