Mitchell targets more Spa24h successposted in GT22 | 10 | 2020

    SCOTS ENDURANCE RACER Sandy Mitchell bids for back-to-back class wins in the Spa 24-Hours this weekend when he tackles the ‘Blue Riband’ round of the GT World Challenge Europe. (Related: Mitchell sets up Silverstone showdown)

    The 20-year-old from Forfar, who 12 months ago won the Silver Cup class at the daunting Spa-Francorchamps circuit — home of the F1 Belgian Grand Prix — this year bids for victory in Pro-Am, driving the No77 Vimetco Extrusion/Asterus Lamborghini Huracan Evo GT3. (Related: Mitchell sees Euro GT win run off-track)

    Mitchell, personally-backed by Huntly-based Black Bull Scotch Whisky, will again share the car on the 56-car grid with regular Euro team-mates Rob Collard and Leo Machitski. The trio will be joined in the Lamborghini for the 24-hour race by Collard’s son, Ricky.

    “I’ve always loved racing at Spa,” Mitchell, part of the Lamborghini Squadra Corse GT3 Junior Program and a member of the prestigious British Racing Drivers’ Club Rising Star scheme, said, “and generally I’ve had good results. (Related: Mitchell maintains British GT title push)

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    “Obviously the best was winning the Silver Cup with Black Bull in the Barwell Motorsport-prepared Lamborghini last year. To date it’s the biggest win of my career, but hopefully I can add another class win in Pro-Am this weekend.”

    Mitchell, Machitski and Collard had been on-course to win the previous round of the GT World Challenge Europe, the six-hour race at the Nurburgring, when their leading car was inexplicably forced off the track by a car running in a different class. So they head to Spa aiming for a maximum points haul from the increased points total available for this round. (Related: Mitchell bags two British GT podiums)

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    “It’s also good to have Ricky in the car,” Mitchell continued. “We raced against each other in the same team early in our careers in F4 single-seaters, so to now be sharing the Lamborghini with him is terrific.

    “And we know, with the experience of Barwell — who I not only won the Silver Cup class with last year, but also powered Leo to his win and second place in the Am Cup at Spa — that we have the foundation, pace and reliability to be mixing it at the front again.”

    Related: Mitchell adds GT World Europe to 2020 schedule

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    Jim McGill

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