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VX Racing announced
today that it has reached a new three-year deal with Triple Eight
Race Engineering to continue to run its motorsport programme.
The British car marque and Banbury-based Triple Eight Race
Engineering have been technical partners in UK motorsport since
1996, sharing Vauxhall’s unprecedented success in the British
Touring Car Championship. The BTCC is Britain’s premier motor racing
series. Featuring cars that look like their showroom counterparts,
BTCC races are shown on terrestrial and satellite television,
reaching millions of viewers.
Vauxhall won the drivers’, teams’ and manufacturers’ titles for four
consecutive years in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. This year, VX Racing
clinched the BTCC manufacturers’ title for a fifth year in a row in
the final meeting of the season with the new Astra Sport Hatch,
which made its debut this year.
On announcing the new three-year deal, Stuart Harris, VX Racing
Manager, Vauxhall, said: "We are delighted to have secured the
services of Triple Eight Race Engineering, who we consider to be the
best in the motorsport industry. Together over the past five years
we have achieved great success and we look forward to building on
our winning relationship over the next three years."
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Ian Harrison, Managing Director, Triple Eight Race Engineering,
commented: "We have a winning partnership with Vauxhall and we are
going to work hard to take VX Racing to more BTCC race victories and
championship titles in the next three years."
VX Racing recently announced the new driver line-up of Fabrizio
Giovanardi and Tom Chilton for the 2006 season.
Giovanardi, a touring car driver for the past 14 years, joins the team
after contesting the 2005 World Touring Car Championship with Alfa
Romeo. The 38-year-old has claimed many honours in is career
including the Italian Super Touring Championship and the European
Touring Car Championship.
Chilton, at the age of 20, is one of the youngest drivers on the
BTCC grid. In May 2004, at just 19-years-old, Tom became the
youngest ever race winner in the series, and has since gone on to
achieve podium success with Honda.
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