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(from Spyker Press
Release) SPYKER DEVELOPING ALL-NEW GT RACER FOR 2012
• Spyker Squadron
dedicates resources to developing 2012 racer
• C8 Aileron GT racing car will be designed to new GTE
regulations
• Discussions underway to supply race cars to customer teams
Zeewolde, The
Netherlands, 1 March 2011 – Spyker Squadron, the factory racing
division of luxury supercar manufacturer, Spyker, will focus its
resources this year on the development of a next generation GT race
car for 2012.
Based on Spyker’s new
flagship C8 Aileron luxury supercar, the new GT racer will be
designed and developed to the ACO’s new GTE specifications and will
be ready for the start of the 2012 motorsport season. Development
activities will be undertaken by Spyker Squadron’s expanded
engineering team at its Zeewolde headquarters in conjunction with
its long-standing technical partners.
Greater attention will
also be paid to the commercial arm of the Spyker Squadron division,
specifically through the sale of its new C8 Aileron GT car to
customer teams. Squadron is already in discussions with a number of
potential purchasers for the supply of cars and of full customer
racing support packages.
Spyker Squadron Managing
Director, Peter Van Erp, said: “We are taking a racing sabbatical
this year to concentrate our resources on developing a new GT racer
based on Spyker’s new C8 Aileron supercar, instead of continuing to
spend money on a car at the end of its development cycle. For the
long term future of Spyker Squadron, and for its role in the
promotion and technical development of Spyker road cars, it’s a
positive and strategically important step.
“We will develop the car
for the new GTE class, although after its first season we will
assess whether there is sufficient demand to develop a variant to
FIA GT3 specifications. This would be relatively straightforward and
would increase the potential customer base for the car and
associated race support package. We are already attracting customer
race teams wishing to buy an off-the-shelf car, with enquiries
arriving from Europe and the Far East,” continues Van Erp.
“Ultimately, our fans
can look forward to a very exciting long term future following
Spyker in top-flight endurance racing, with both the Spyker Squadron
and customer racing teams fielding C8 Aileron GT cars. And as a
result, Spyker will become an even more prominent and successful
name in endurance motorsport around the world in 2012 and beyond.”
The Spyker C8 Aileron GT racing car will take over from Squadron’s
C8 Laviolette GT2R racer, with which Spyker’s race division enjoyed
three years of competitive European GT endurance racing. In 2009,
the C8 Laviolette GT2R delivered Squadron’s most successful season,
claiming two second-place GT2 class finishes in the Le Mans Series,
and scoring an incredible fifth place in the gruelling 24 Hours of
Le Mans.
