K-PAX Racing has confirmed that it will return to the GT World Challenge Europe for the Endurance Cup races in 2023.
The Sonoma-based team is set to race with a Pro class Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 for works drivers Franck Perera, Sandy Mitchell and Marco Mapelli.
This will be the team’s first full-season World Challenge Europe campaign since 2020 when it competed as a Bentley customer team. It did however compete at the Spa 24 Hours last year as a one-off, alongside its title-winning World Challenge America campaign.
The team is still fresh from claiming three titles in GT World Challenge America last season, scoring back-to-back Drivers’, Teams’, and Manufacturers’ championship honours.
“This is an exciting time for K-PAX Racing,” says team manager Daren Law. “After so many years of success with our racing programme in the US, we have decided to expand to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for the 2023 season. SRO has a great product and the best GT3 racing in the world. We have experimented with racing in Europe several times already, at the 24 Hours of Spa, as well as a full season of the Endurance Cup in 2020 (pictured below). We were successful that year but feel we have unfinished business.
“It is quite a challenge for a US team to move its operations and equipment to Europe. We have leased a workshop in Italy, and we will use part of our US team members and a partial crew from Europe. All the equipment is in containers on its way and both our cars are at Lamborghini Squadra Corse now getting updated to the new EVO2 spec. Fingers crossed everything makes it in time for the first test at Paul Ricard but if not, we have support from Lamborghini if needed.
“We have to thank Jim Haughey for allowing all of us to have this opportunity. Without his passion and dedication to the sport none of this would be possible. We also have to thank Giorgio Sanna [Lamborghini’s Head of Motorsport] for giving us such a strong driver line up. We have worked with both Marco and Franck previously, and raced against Sandy, so it will be great to have him joining our programme this year. We are looking forward to the challenge and can’t wait to get the season started.”
The GT World Challenge Europe season takes in five rounds at some of Europe’s most iconic venues, with races of three, six, and 24 hours in length. The season begins at Circuit Paul Ricard in France, for the Official Test Days, concluding at Barcelona in Spain in October.
