Croydon's Bradley Ellis will rekindle his title-winning partnership with Alex Mortimer at this weekend's next round of the FIA GT3 European Championship at Monza (May 17-18).
The pair have not raced together since clinching the 2007 Avon Tyres British GT crown at Rockingham last September.
But, after Ellis made a promising debut in the opening round at Silverstone, the pair have signed to complete the rest of the season in the Swiss Matech Racing Team's Ford GT.
advertisement
"It is great to resurrect our championship-winning partnership," said Ellis, who doesn't turn 21 until June.
"Alex and I have raced together for over two years; we know how each other drives and how to use that to our advantage in race conditions.
"We have joined a strong team and we'll work in partnership with them to develop the Ford GT and get ourselves to the front of the field."
Although Ellis clinched vital championship points in the opening FIA GT3 European Championship rounds at Silverstone, Mortimer joins the title fight two races adrift, making the Monza objective clear.
"Due to some technical gremlins at Silverstone, qualifying was the first opportunity I had to get a good run in the car and that was a month ago," added Ellis.
"Alex is yet to drive the Ford GT and his first opportunity will be on the Monza practice days when we will be aiming to get ourselves settled in to both the car and racing together again.
"I am sure everything will fall together smoothly to let us focus on getting Alex in to the championship fight and on scoring as many points as possible."
If you liked this article and would like to share it with others on the web who might be searching for good content we've made it easy for you to do it.
At the bottom of all articles, you'll see links to six sites. These sites - commonly called 'social bookmark' or 'social news' sites - have large communities of web users who share and rate interesting, useful and fun things on the web.
Clicking the links will automatically add the address of the story you are reading to one of these sites, letting you share it with others. Each site will ask you to register to share stories. Registration is free and once a member, you can store, recommend and search for stories that interest you.
Print
Email this
