Detailed below is the letter sent to the SRO  after this weeks Autosport published a letter from GTC competitors questioning the eligibility of the Prosport LM3000 Team Scandal have run in this year's GTC class of the British GT championship:

Mr Stephane RatelStephane Ratel Organisation Ltd.110 Old Brompton RoadLondonSW7 3RA24/05/06

REF: ProSport LM3000´s in British GT

Dear Mr Ratel,

I am somewhat dismayed at the shabby way the issue regarding the inclusion ofthe two prosport LM3000 cars in GTC class of the British GT Championship has beenhandled by SRO. At no time have we been informed at to what has been going on orbeen asked to defend our position.

To then read the contents of the `letter´ in AutoSport (having not been given a copyat any point before this was published and the decision to remove us taken), we fi ndit full of inaccuracies, and very light on real hard facts.

In answer to the 4 points made:

1. Eligibility of a Prosport LM3000The current regs for British GT state:5.2.2 The basis for these regulations are the specifi c regulations for thesingle-make cups, & the characteristics of production cars amended by thepoints mentioned in the following articles. Any modifi cation is forbidden if it isnot specifi cally authorised in these regulations.The ProSport LM3000 ran as a single make series, has been accepted by SROfor GTC class on multiple occasions in 2004, 2005, as well as 2006, with NOISSUE until this year.

There are a few road-going Prosports (Ian Stinton actually owns one ofthem), and anybody that actually knows the history of ProSports will alsoknow that it shares all the major components and bodywork to the UltimaSports car of the same age (to the point most people actually do not knowthe difference and call ProSports Ultima´s)

2. Homologation.Nowhere in the regulations does it demand any kind of homologation for GTCclass cars.

3. PerformanceThis is just not relevant. Of the two examples that are given, the fi rst is noteven the times of a ProSport LM3000, it´s actually Michael Christopher´s SR3car, it´s true that he also owns a highly developed ProSport LM3000, however,on that meeting he was using his Sr3 car (co driven by Ian Flux).

The second example is from Brands Indy cct, and at least this time it wasactually Michael Christopher´s ProSport LM3000, this car is nothing like thespecifi cation of the `std´ Prosport LM3000 that Team Scandal ProSport andData Solutions have. To put this into perspective, we entered the Prosportin the last Britcar race of 2005 at Brands Indy, the car was in the stdspecification for the ProSport LM3000 series with it´s 320Bhp engine (flywheelfigure). We took the win with a fastest lap of 48.959, over 1 sec slower thanthe 996 Carrera Cup time quoted.

To comply with the GTC power to weight regs, this car is now running anengine some 70 Bhp less than LM3000 specification (to achieve an at thewheels figure of 210Bhp).

In all the testing we have completed with the ProSport (with Avon tyres) wehave been consistently between 0.7 -1.2 seconds of the front running GTCcar on the same day (Trackspeeds 996), this is also shown in the qualifyingfor Donington where we were 1.621 seconds off GTC pole time. This is alsothe case at Oulton where Ian Stinton´s fastest lap of the weekend was 1.803seconds of the GTC pole (a 996 GT3).

4. Source of embarrassment.We fail to understand this point, and would also point out that their viewsare not as universal as they have stated. We have had offers of support fromseveral other GTC (and GT3) teams on this issue, their (and our) view is thatthis action is purely motivated by paranoia and self-interest.

For SRO to say that the ProSport LM3000 is now a GT2 car is laughable, it´s not andnever will be an FIA homologated car, and ignoring that issue, adding some 250Kg´sto it will not only make the car unsafe, it would also be a mobile chicane (we canonly imagine this idea was dreamed up so that SRO can save face by saying that theProSport LM3000 has no been banned).

We have made a substantial investment and commitment to enter British GT, and aswe stand, this is looking like a complete write-off, to this end, we are now looking atwhat action we can take to recover our investment.

I await your response and hope you can bring some clarity, discussion and resolutionto this matter.

Yours sincearlySimon ScuffhamTeam DirectorTeam Scandal Racing