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| The 2006 British and FIA GT3 European Champions, Leo Machitski and Sean Edwards respectively, have come together for 2007 to take the next step in GT racing, when they will race the Tech9 Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3-RSR. The team undertook a shakedown on February 7th at Brands Hatch. "The target was simply to put 200 km on the car and bed everything in," commented team owner Phil Hindley. "The car ran beautifully, as you would expect. Porsche got us into an early build slot so that we could shake down and then test the car before it goes to Zhuhai for the start of the FIA GT Championship." Leo Machitski tried the car first : "I'm quite tall, but it's very comfortable," he said. "Everything si where you want it to be. It was very tempting to squeeze the throttle and despite the cold weather, it was very hard to go slowly. I can start to feel the excitement already." Part of Sean Edward's prize for winning the 2006 FIA GT3 European Championship was a factory tyre deal with Michelin, which means 40 sets of tyres for this year. "That's very significant for a team like this," Hindley continued. "Every penny counts and we run the team very frugally. It's crucial we have a good season, and it's fantastic to have two GT3 Champions racing together." The Tech9 plan for 2007 also includes a new group of young drivers racing in the FIA GT3 European Championship, with the aim of moving some of them into GT2 in 2008. Phil Hindley is very keen to extend his team's run of four consecutive GT titles - in British GT and then the FIA European GT3 Championship. |