Promotorsport Announce 2008 FIA GT4 Entry With Nissan 350Z
2001 ETCC Independents Champions, Scottish based Promotorsport Ltd announced today that they have entered a Nissan 350Z for the 2008 FIA GT4 Championship. Drivers will be the familiar paring of Rick Pearson, who took the Tracsport Lola-Nissan to 3rd in the 2004 LMES LMP2 Championship, and Derek Palmer Jr his driving partner in the Dutch Supercar Challenge for the last 2 years.
Commenting on this announcement Rick Pearson said “I am extremely pleased that I will once again be in a Promotorsport engineered car in 2008 and also to be returning to a SRO-run Championship. We firmly believe that the Nissan will be the car to beat in 2008 and whilst this deal has come together very late in the day, we hope to be on the pace early enough to mount a realistic challenge for the Championship. In fact, given the way the points system is going to work for shared cars, there is a real chance your biggest rival could be your own co-pilot so I shall have to keep a close eye on Derek Jr!
Whilst I am sure the Dutch Supercar crowds will be disappointed we won’t be bringing out the giant-killing Supertourer this year, it was really time for “the old girl” to have a quieter life and save herself for her annual podium at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. However we would like to take this opportunity to thank Dick Van Elk and his team for 2 fabulous years of racing in their excellent Championship. From a personal point of view, this will be my 12th year at the wheel of a Nissan/Renault engined car and I cannot understate the importance of their motorsport programmes in supporting racing at every level.”
RJN currently have the Promotorsport 350Z in build and this will be followed through the workshop by the replacement for their own car which was sadly destroyed in testing at Silverstone on Friday.
Promotorsport, run by Derek Palmer Sr, are best known for their exploits with the ex-Aiello BTCC winning Nissan Supertourer: Taking Sandro Sardelli to the 2001 ETCC Independents Trophy and in recent seasons in the Dutch Supercar Challenge where the 2-litre car has taken regular podiums and the occasional class victory in the Supersport 1 division, a class above that in which the car should be running.