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Creation Autosportif Team Manager Ian Bickerton was delighted to confirm the news this morning that the Bicester based team have purchased the ex-John Neilsen DBA4 LMP675 car.
“We didn’t want an Audi and we couldn’t buy a Bentley so this is the next best thing. The car has enormous potential and certainly has the pace to run at the front.”
The Zytek engined car showed enormous potential in 2003 with fast runs at Sebring and Le Mans and race wins in the FIA SCC.
“We’re very serious about this campaign. We’ll contest the whole LMES and probably Sebring too. Of course we’d love to race at Le Mans but if we don’t get an entry in June year we’ll be better prepared for 2005.”
Its early days yet though for announcements over driver lineup but the prospect of four 1000km endurance races in a front-running car will surely mean that the workshop telephone will be busy from now on.
Better news still is that the team will continue to campaign their pair of Lister Storms in the FIA GT Championship. Rumours in the UK motorsport media of a change in engine supplier are somewhat premature:
“We know Laurence (Pearce) is preparing a more powerful version of the V12 and we have high hopes for that engine. In our position though we wouldn’t be smart if we put all of our eggs in one basket so we do have Nicholson Mclaren evaluating the stock engine to find out what they think might be possible too.”
So then another top quality prototype joins the LMES entry list. And it brings with it the mouthwatering prospect of ex-Lister employee Bickerton going head to head with his old boss in both major European series.
“I’m really looking forward to it and I bet he is too.” Said Bickerton.
With the formal announcement today of the Audi UK entry for the LMES too it looks like the British based prototype attack on the LMES is growing fast.
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