Since making its entry to international racing in 2015, Malaysian team Viper Niza Racing has contested races in a wide variety of Series including 24H Series, Ultimate Cup, the Asian Le Mans Series and the Road To Le Mans with TCR and LMP3 machinery.
Now, after 105 race starts by its driver and Team Principal & Owner, Douglas Khoo, Viper Niza Racing is switching to Aston Martin and has acquired both a GT4 and GT3 AMR Vantage for an assault in international and regional GT sportscar racing.
Douglas Khoo: “Endurance racing has always been where our passion lies, and we will continue to focus on long-distance races as we have done previously in the TCR and Asian Le Mans Series. The TCR CUPRA Leon remains in our racing program moving forward but sadly, our time with the Ligier JS P3 LMP3 race car has come to its end as the car is no longer technically eligible to compete under current regulations,” he said.
“Our time in the LMP3 race car has given us a wealth of experience and knowledge and after so many great and memorable years of competing in this class, we feel that now is the most opportune time to move on to the GT3 and GT4 sportscar racing classes. These classes have exponentially grown to become increasingly competitive over the recent years with the participation of the world’s top sportscar manufacturers,” explained Douglas.
“There’s no question that they bring immense capabilities to this partnership,” said Weiron Tan, Director of Aston Martin Racing Asia, and himself an international sportscar racer, as he welcomed Douglas and his team to the AMR family. “Viper Niza Racing’s degree of commitment, professionalism and technical competence in endurance racing is next to none compared to the best teams in the world and they have continued to invest in and demonstrated this throughout their years of endurance racing.”
The Viper Niza Racing Vantage GT3 will make its debut in the Super Series support race for the Singapore F1 Grand Prix on October 1 & 2, with Douglas Khoo as driver.
“Despite Singapore being a sprint race, it will provide us with much needed seat time to shakedown and familiarize ourselves with the new car. The plan moving forward, however, will be to solely focus on endurance racing events,” said Douglas, who will also have longtime endurance racing partner, Dominic Ang, as team mate.
Immediate events lined up for the near future will include competing in another two rounds of the Thailand Super Series in October and December.
