Lotus Sport Cadena Secure Gt3 Team’s Championship

Some more old'ish news that I didnt post.

In its first year of competition, Lotus Sport Cadena has secured outright GT3 Team Championship honours in the highly competitive British GT Championship.

Such has been the Lotus Sport Cadena dominance this season, they secured the title with one race in hand.

Said Chris Arnold, General Manager Lotus Sport:

"I am absolutely thrilled that Lotus' re-entry into British motorsport at this highly competitive level has been so successful. We have a great team of people here at Hethel, both working at Lotus Sport and the Cadena team. This has been a team effort in the truest sense of the word. I'm very pleased with the technical progress we have made this year and the car's reliability has been fantastic. We are now starting to see the real potential of the Exige on the race track."

Paul Whight, Team Principal Lotus Sport Cadena, confirmed:

"It is with a true sense of achievement that I look back on the British GT Championship this year. Working shoulder to shoulder with Lotus Sport, Cadena has developed the GT3 Lotus Exige race car to a standard proven capable of taking on and beating the likes of the mighty Aston Martin DRRS9 and Porshe 997. These are cars which come with significantly higher horsepower and of course, significantly higher price tags! To win the Team Championship in our first year is a reflection upon all our team members, each of whom has worked tirelessly both at the workshop and at the track."

For Lotus Sport Cadena, the 2006 season was scheduled to be a development year, with the Cadena team and Lotus Sport working hand in hand to develop the Lotus Exige GT3. However, there were early indications that both team and race car were capable of challenging for overall honours, crystallised by a brace of sensational outright second places (and class victories) at Mondello Park in Ireland back in June.

The new-for-2006 FIA GT3 regulations were always going to encourage intense competition across Europe-and that has certainly been the case with the British GT Championship. Former British Touring Car entrants Barwell Motorsport fielded two 550 bhp Aston Martin DBRS9 GT3 cars, the Damax team, which has been at the forefront of GT racing for many years, boasted the works Ascari entries, with Trackspeed, Tech9 Motorsport and RP Mall relying on the popular 997 Porsche.

Not withstanding the level and depth of GT3 competition this year, Lotus Sport Cadena has proven that the 1.8 litre, 285 bhp Lotus Exige GT3 race car is the leader in its class. Lotus would like to thank its suppliers and many supporters worldwide for their valued contribution to this year's programme.

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