Atomic Kitten Racing

Logan · 30 Jan 2002, 14:03 (Ref:206499)

I may be out of date on this one, but before Xmas AK racing were placing ads in Autosport and going on about full GT programs in FIA GT and appearances at selected ALMS/ELMS rounds with their Corvettes.

Since then not a word. Anyone heard anything?

It would be great to see some Corvettes in the FIA GT championship in either class to add a bit of spice to the usual suspects.

Logan.

paulzinho · 30 Jan 2002, 16:26 (Ref:206574)

Why not race in British GT Championship?

Speedworx · 30 Jan 2002, 19:55 (Ref:206797)

Maybe they have the budget for international racing.

f2001 · 30 Jan 2002, 20:12 (Ref:206820)

has it got anything to do with the crappy band ?

**gomick** · 31 Jan 2002, 07:17 (Ref:207191)

i thought those chicks were ok (looking

).....

racer69 · 31 Jan 2002, 11:18 (Ref:207256)

The band is hot, (except for the music)

The band sponser the team, the team was set up by the bands manager.

try their website www.akmotorsport.com

Logan · 31 Jan 2002, 14:17 (Ref:207403)

Thanks for the link racer69,

Went and had a look and seeing as the home page mentioned their involvement with the "brilliant new
Interactive Sportscar Championship" I think we can safely presume the site hasn't been updated for a while.

I guess we shall have to wait and see...

Logan.

Blue2 · 31 Jan 2002, 14:45 (Ref:207424)

I read some of that website's text, but it's all a bit WEIRD. What a strange concept! I'm still not sure it's not a wind up!?!?

Also, the team's alleged "Group Managing Director and Lead Driver" has the same surname as me. Too weird mate, too weird.

27tim · 1 Feb 2002, 04:07 (Ref:208004)

Just checked out the website...I can understand drivers talking themselves up but...

Quote:

Tom Bellamy

One of the fastest Club Sportscar racing drivers on the British scene, Tom started racing a "B" sport Mallock, where his obvious talent and speed quickly propelled him to the ARP Formula 3 Championship. There he won numerous races and a Formula 1 career looked possible. With the big break into F1 not happening, he returned to Clubman Sportscar racing.....

LoL *F1 looked possible* c'mon really....

Russfeld · 1 Feb 2002, 05:32 (Ref:208021)

The respective fan bases of auto racing, and Atomic Kitten, dont quite seem to compare

racer69 · 1 Feb 2002, 13:22 (Ref:208133)

The last time i was at the site (few months ago) it was more up to date than it is now, something is up. The team definatly does exist though, it has a few GTS Corvette's, a GT3 Corvette, and may also have a Porsche GT3-R. They used the Porsche in the ELMS round at Estoril last year, the round that Johansson Audi and the Courage came together near the end.

I suppose you could try www.atomickitten.co.uk and use the link from there and see where that takes you.

Blue2 · 2 Feb 2002, 11:04 (Ref:208792)

Quote:

Originally posted by Russfeld
The respective fan bases of auto racing, and Atomic Kitten, dont quite seem to compare

Exactly. For this reason, I can't imagine there are many marketing benefits of this type of project. Intriguing.

KA · 4 Feb 2002, 12:57 (Ref:210086)

Quote:

Originally posted by racer69
it has a few GTS Corvette's, a GT3 Corvette, and may also have a Porsche GT3-R. They used the Porsche in the ELMS round at Estoril last year, the round that Johansson Audi and the Courage came together near the end.

I don't think they had a GT3R- I'm sure they ran the Vette at Estoril (it was the ex-Trinkler Motorsport GT/GT3 car). The GTS Vettes were supposed to be ex-factory cars, but never actually appeared on a racetrack- if they ever reached the team at all.

The appeared at the first- and only- Interactive Sportscar round at Donington with 2 uncompetitive Corvettes, did one Britsh GT round, the Estoril ELMS race and then seemed to disappear- they certainly didn't do anything like the programme that was listed in the Autosport advertisement

racer69 · 5 Feb 2002, 12:48 (Ref:210583)

Hopefully they will appear more often this year. They didn't get the full on ex-works GTS Corvettes till August at the earliest, maybe there were delays.

I think u are right about the vette at Estoril, i got all the Porsche GT3-R's mixed up. After all 12 of the 19 cars in that race were GT Porsche GT3-R's

f2001 · 5 Feb 2002, 18:14 (Ref:210726)

i agree they are all HOT !

David · 5 Feb 2002, 19:57 (Ref:210797)

On Sept 14, 2001 the Atomic Kitten cars were still at Pratt & Miller:

C5R-007 in the foreground and C5R-006 in the background.

Logan · 6 Feb 2002, 18:02 (Ref:211183)

Quote:

Originally posted by f2001
i agree they are all HOT !

The Corvettes aren't too bad looking either...

logan.

David · 7 Feb 2002, 18:07 (Ref:211722)

I spoke with a team manager at Pratt & Miller this morning and was informed that the Atomic Kitten team backed out of the deal to buy two cars. That means that all 9 of the official C5-R test and race cars are still owned by the factory. For much more info check:
http://palmeter.com/C5RInfoIndex.htm

Logan · 8 Feb 2002, 09:46 (Ref:212184)

Thanks for the info David.

I guess that means the end of AK racing for now at least on the international GT scene,

Logan.

racer69 · 8 Feb 2002, 11:17 (Ref:212213)

Damn, i was looking forward to some GTS Corvettes in the FIA GT Championship

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