Oct 2006

mpg were extremely proud to support South East based racing driver Andy Britnell on his return to the Porsche Carrera Cup over the weekend of the 14th and 15th October 2006 at Silverstone Circuit after almost a year off through Business commitments.

Andy was runner up in last years British GT Championship driving a 996 derivative GT3 Cup car and is looking forward to his first outing in the new for 2006 997 GT3 Cup car which now boasts a sequential gearbox and the latest digital dash readout and telemetry.

The Porsche Carrera Cup GB supports the competitive and popular British Touring Car Championship and Andy will be driving for the highly professional Motorbase Performance Team who will be fielding a total of 4 Carrera Cup cars and 2 BTCC Cars at Silverstone. The Team have recently acquired the ex-works SEAT Toledo S2000 specification Cars with a view to a full Campaign in 2007 and will be putting one of the cars out for the first time with the quick youngster Tom Ferrier at the wheel. The ebullient Dave Pinkney will drive the Honda Integra Type R and Tim Harvey, Michael Caine and the recently crowned Pro-Am Champion, Phil Quaife, will drive the remaining Carrera Cup cars.

Motorbase Team principal David Bartrum commented “it is good to have Andy back in one of our cars and we will be expecting a strong performance from him even if he might be a bit rusty!”

Andy is being supported in his outing by MPG Associates, an International Property and Construction Cost Consultancy, Buyland Group who have land and property opportunities in places as diverse as Cyprus, the Middle East and Bulgaria and Vantis plc, an AIM listed top 13 Accounting, Business and TAX advisory Group.