Jota Sport made their final preparations this week as they ready themselves for their debut season in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB. The team, formed as a division of successful sportscar outfit Team Jota, head to Brands Hatch for the opening round of the championship this weekend in confident mood.

London based racing driver, Sam Hancock, has his sights set on nothing less than the Porsche Carrera Cup GB title this year as he heads to the opening meeting of the season at Brands Hatch this weekend.

Phil Quaife is looking to add the overall Porsche Carrera Cup GB title to his 2006 Pro-Am category triumph when he makes his return to the UK’s most prestigious one make racing series this season.

Marco Holzer studying for his new drive

Stuttgart. Marco Holzer is the new driver in the UPS Porsche Junior Team.
Just 19 years old, Marco, from Bobingen in Germany, will be teaming up with
Austrian driver Martin Ragginger (also 19), who has been racing as a UPS
Porsche Junior since 2007. The two young drivers will be entering all races
for the Carrera Cup Germany at the wheel of a 420-bhp Porsche 911 GT3 Cup,
as well as six races for the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup held on the occasion
of various Formula 1 events, where they will be guest starters.

Jota Sport has added former Pro-Am champion and BRDC Rising Star Phil Quaife to its driver line up for the 2008 Porsche Carrera Cup GB season.

The 21-year old racer will join Sam Hancock in Jota Sport’s assault on the UK’s premier one make category and gives the team, who make their debut in the Carrera Cup this year building on their ongoing sportscar success, two genuine title contenders.

Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) made history today at the FORMULA 1™ ING Australian Grand Prix when he claimed the first ever Carrera Cup round win at the Albert Park circuit.

Baird took the win after his Race Three victory this morning, but he was made to fight for it the entire way by a determined Dean Fiore (Complispace/Advance Energy).

Western Australia’s Aaron Caratti (Parklands on Bertram) has won his first ever Carrera Cup race after taking out Race One at the FORMULA 1™ ING Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne this afternoon.

Caratti backed up his maiden pole position from earlier in the day to lead from start to finish winning the first of four races for the weekend.

The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), Porsche Motorsport North America (PMNA), and Michelin have taken the successful IMSA Challenge by Michelin and expanded it again for 2008. Beginning with the American Le Mans Series' Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring weekend , the IMSA Challenge (renamed from the IMSA GT3 Challenge) will run 14 races at seven venues and will expand into two classes to attract even more participation.

Stuttgart. The winter break is over for the teams of the Porsche Mobil1
Supercup and the Carrera Cup Deutschland. On 5th and 6th March, more than
40 pilots and 29 teams tested their new racing sports cars for the first
time on the Hockenheimring in preparation for the upcoming season. The
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup now delivers 420 horsepower instead of 400hp. The
aerodynamics of the successful makes cup racer also underwent
modifications.