Australian racer Spike Goddard is the fourth driver to be signed up to FFF Racing Team’s Young Driver Development Programme in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East and Asia.
Richard “Spike” Goddard joins FFF Racing’s Super Trofeo effort in an ongoing bid to forge a career as a professional sportscar racer, having initially ascended the single-seater ranks in his native Australia, the UK and Europe.
The 2017 GT Open Series got under way this weekend in Estoril, Portugal (29-30 April, 2017) which boasted a strong field of 22 cars including 16 strong professional drivers in what looks to have the making of a very competitive championship.
In a move that will significantly increase its visibility and influence in Asian sportscar competition, FFF Racing Team supported by Squadra Corse will run two Lamborghini Huracan GT3s in the SRO GT Series Asia in 2017.
FFF Racing was founded on a campaign in the 2015 GT Asia Series, but rocketed to notoriety while traversing Europe and Asia for each round of this year's Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup, Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe, GT Asia and Asian Le Mans Series.
FFF Racing Team raced to a top seven result in the Asian Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Buriram – the third and penultimate round of the 2016-17 season – at Chang International Circuit in Thailand (6-8 January).
The Roger Dubuis-supported outfit’s skill and expertise was used to perfect its Lamborghini Huracan GT3’s balance and driveability and this enabled drivers Matt Bell, Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Vitantonio Liuzzi to translate a top ten grid position into a seventh-place result in what was another highly competitive Asian LMS race.
FFF Racing Team can confirm that India’s Parth Ghorpade will compete in the 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East and Asia as the latest entry to its Young Driver Development Programme.
Ghorpade, who bagged five national karting titles in his native India, graduated to cars in the 2011 French F4 Championship, but won the Asian Formula Pilota Series in 2012 to then become the first Indian to test with the Ferrari Driver Academy.
FFF Racing Team welcomes Jack Bartholomew to its Young Driver Development Programme and can confirm the British young gun for its Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East and Asia campaigns.
The 18-year old from Lewes in East Sussex raced karts for seven years in the UK and on the international stage before stepping up to cars in 2015.
FFF Racing Team has nothing to lose and is targeting the top step of the podium with the sole McLaren of Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Adrian Quaife-Hobbs in the final round of the first ever Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup season at Circuito do Estoril (21-22 October).
Early season form suggested FFF Racing would be in the mix for the inaugural GT3 Le Mans Cup title, but the Italy-based outfit fell out of the race when it was hit by a run of misfortune with the #55 McLaren 650S of Hamaguchi and Quaife-Hobbs.
FFF Racing Team is pleased to confirm Mirko Bortolotti and Andre Couto as its drivers for the 2016 FIA GT World Cup at the 63rd Macau Grand Prix (17-20 November).
The Pescara, Italy-based outfit announced its entry to the GT World Cup in August, but can only now confirm that Bortolotti and Couto will drive its Lamborghini Huracan GT3s in the Macau event.
After several years of karting, Bortolotti began his single-seater career in the 2005 Italian Formula Renault Winter Series and Formula Gloria, before finishing runner-up in the 2006 Formula Azzurra Drivers’ Championship.
The 2016-17 Asian Le Mans Series (AsLMS) was revealed as the latest addition to FFF Racing Team’s bi-continental competition programme at an official season launch in Zhuhai, China today (Sunday 18 September).
The AsLMS was resurrected by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) in 2013 as a successor to the now defunct Japan Le Mans Challenge.
FFF Racing had high expectations heading to Circuit Paul Ricard in the south of France for round four of the Michelin GT3 Le Mans Cup (26-28 August, 2016) but left disappointed after ongoing mechanical and electrical problems blighted the race weekend.
The team were left on the back foot after a mechanical problem side-lined the #55 McLaren 650S GT3 during the Friday running. Following a virtual all-nighter from the hard-working team, the #55 car was all prepped and ready to roll for qualifying in which Hiroshi Hamaguchi qualified in a fine third position.