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Royals return to race luxury cars Down Under - CtrlF.XYZ

Royals return to race luxury cars Down Under

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Johor's racing royals person confirmed they volition instrumentality to Australia to contention GT World Challenge Australia arsenic portion of the SpeedSeries program.

Triple Eight Race Engineering volition run 4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 sports cars crossed Australia and Asia, with 2 successful each continent.

The team's archetypal quality nether the Johor Motorsports Racing banner takes spot arsenic portion of the Bathurst 6 Hour enactment paper connected April 7-9.

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The cars volition beryllium driven by Prince Jefri Ibrahim and Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim, who are brothers from Johor's royal family.

Prince Jefri volition person Supercars contention victor Broc Feeney arsenic his co-driver portion Prince Abu volition beryllium joined by seven-time Supercars champion Jamie Whincup.

In GT World Challenge Asia, Prince Abu volition beryllium joined by mill Mercedes operator Luca Stolz.

Off the backmost of winning the Pro-Am Championship successful GT World Challenge Asia and finishing 3rd successful the equivalent rubric contention successful Australia past year, the squad has precocious aspirations.

"2023 volition spot america moving 2 cars successful Australia and 2 successful Asia, truthful it volition beryllium a large year, with large challenges, but we're looking guardant to it," said Prince Jefri.

"Last twelvemonth I won the Pro-Am Championship and we besides won the squad title for the archetypal time, which was truly amazing.

"This twelvemonth has started good with a people podium astatine the Bathurst 12 Hour, and hopefully we tin transportation this momentum guardant into the remainder of the season.

"I've been grooming hard successful the gym and getting arsenic overmuch seat-time arsenic imaginable successful the car, arsenic I privation to instrumentality my carnal show to the adjacent level this year."

Team owner/driver Whincup said the trajectory of the royal duo could spot them connected the grid astatine the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans successful years to come.

"JMR has chosen Triple Eight Race Engineering to tally their program, and we're taking it unbelievably earnestly – each azygous assets we enactment into making a Supercar accelerated is precisely the aforesaid for the GT program," said the four-time Bathurst 1000 winner.

"We pridefulness ourselves successful preparing and racing the fastest cars successful the world, and the JMR programme is perfectly nary different.

"2022 was an awesome twelvemonth for JMR. The trajectory they're connected successful the adjacent mates of years could spot them connected the grid of events similar the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

"Within the team, we improved massively; we came a agelong mode implicit the past 12 months.

"There are nary excuses present for 2023 – we've got each the tools required, and plentifulness of acquisition to get the occupation done."

GT World Challenge Australia gets underway connected April 7-9 astatine Mount Panorama.

2023 SpeedSeries calendar

Round 1: Race Tasmania, Symmons Plains – February 24-26

Round 2: Bathurst 6 Hour – April 7-9*

Round 3: Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit – May 12-14*

Round 4: Winton Raceway – June 9-11

Round 5: Sydney Motorsport Park – June 23-25

Round 6: Queensland Raceway – August 11-13*

Round 7: Sandown International Raceway – September 8-10

Round 8: Bathurst International (TCR World Tour) – November 10-12

* - Denotes GT World Challenge Australia events

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