Craft Bamboo to assault the Mountain
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Craft Bamboo Racing will enter a two-car Aston Martin team in the 2015
Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour.
The Hong
Kong-based team has confirmed a two-car Aston Martin Vantage GT3 attack on the
February 6-8 Event that will include the return of two-time race winner Darryl
O’Young to Mount Panorama.
Team founder
and experienced racer Frank Yu will also be amongst the driving squad.
The team has
confirmed one car will fight for outright victory while the other contests the
‘Gentlemen’s Trophy’ – for cars with two unseeded drivers - within Class A.
O’Young won
the Bathurst 12 Hour twice as part of the works Audi squad that dominated the
race in 2011 and 2012.
The vastly
experienced Canadian-born Hong Kong driver has also raced at the highest level
in the World Touring Car Championship and currently heads up Craft Bamboo’s GT
Asia campaign in the factory-supported Astons.
“I missed the
race this year for the first time since 2011, so I’m glad to be back to
Bathurst with a competitive team. Craft-Bamboo Racing is aiming for the
win, so hopefully we’ll be in good position in the final hour to fight for the
victory.”
Team CEO
Richard Coleman said the team was excited to commence their 2015 racing program
on the Mountain.
"We are
very excited to be entering a two car entry to the Bathurst 12 hour race as
this is an event we've been eyeing for some time. I cannot think of a more
fitting race to kick start our 2015 racing activities. It’s a notoriously
difficult event but you will see us enter two very competitive entries and we
aim to bring home some silverware."
Craft Bamboo
Racing is an official technical partner team of Aston Martin Racing and
currently runs cars in the GTE-Pro class of the World Endurance Championship,
the Asian LeMans Series and the GT Asia Series with the cars that will contest
the 12-hour next year.
The team has
raced in the famed LeMans 24 hour, the Sebring 12-hour, Sepang 12-hour and
scored third in the 2013 Dubai 24 Hour.
Craft Bamboo
Racing’s addition to the field takes to nine the number of competing brands in
the outright GT3 class – that now counts 28 cars.
