We are proud to announce the naming rights sponsor of the Clubsprint Class at World Time Attack Challenge 2011 is RECARO.
Recaro is a name synonymous with the highest quality automotive seats and has a history dating back to 1906 in Stuttgart Germany and a motorsport history dating back over 40 years. Their seats are standard fitment to many exclusive vehicles throughout the world including The Nissan R35 GTR, Lamborghini Gallardo and Porsche GT3 and are a factory option on many more. Their competition seats are used in just about every form of professional motorsport worldwide and are the choice of many of the top factory teams around the world.
Recaro also have a range of more affordable club level racing seats that include all the technology and many of the features of the professional level seats at a price to suit the weekend racer.
“To have Recaro join us as the Clubsprint Class sponsor for 2011 is fantastic” said Superlap marketing manager Greg Lysien “This company has an extremely well regarded product worldwide and for them to recognise the WTAC as an opportunity to be involved with gives us a fair indication of where the event is heading. They have told us their technical staff will be coming over from Germany to man their display and answer any questions regarding their seats and they will also be running some show specials on display seats”
The Recaro Clubsprint class is set to be a battle to the end in 2011 with many of the top 2010 competitors now having another year of development under their belts that has seen the lap times tumble. The big difference with the Clubsprint Class is that the driver must be the registered owner of the vehicle and no “pro” drivers are permitted and the cars must run on “road” tyres as opposed to the semi slicks permitted in other classes.
Whilst in theory this should create a “feeder” category for the higher classes, which in many cases it has with the 2010 Champion Nik Kalis and many others now stepping up competing in the Hankook Competition Open Class, for many others it has been about perfecting their car to run fast on road tyres and coming back year on year to battle like minded individuals.
What is also worth noting is that with the exception of the engine being of the original designation, the engine modifications are virtually free, and meaning there is some extremely powerful cars doing battle on road tyres making for some very exciting time attack action!
