CARLIN JOINS BROOKSPEED AT COOPERS SQUARE
Leading British Formula 3 International team Carlin Motorsport will join Brookspeed Team Trimite, one of the pacesetters in the recent official media launch of the Avon Tyres British GT Championship, this Thursday 20 March at Coopers Square Shopping Centre, Burton upon Trent. Southampton-based Brookspeed Team Trimite has confirmed that Britons James Gornall, from Peterborough and Jon Barnes from Southampton will join one of Aldershot-based Carlin Motorsport’s young drivers to meet and greet the shoppers before heading up the road to Oulton Park’s opening rounds of the motor racing championships.
In the first of four F3/GT Pit Shop Roadshows to be held in selected Grosvenor Shopping Centres, the Brookspeed Team Trimite Dodge Viper Competition Coupe will join the Carlin Motorsport Dallara F308 Mercedes HWA. Here top drivers and key personnel from both teams will join shoppers for a meet and greet and the opportunity to get autographs and photographs of their racing heroes.
Local radio station Touch FM will also be getting in on the act with a live outside broadcast direct from Coopers Square Shopping Centre from 2pm until 5pm. In addition to interviewing the drivers and key team personnel direct from the centre, the station will also be running competitions in the run-up to the event which takes place this week. Some lucky winners will get the chance to attend the opening rounds of the UK’s most prestigious racing series’ at Cheshire’s Oulton Park track.
“We are looking forward to a great funday at Coopers Square, putting people on the spot to see who the real motoring enthusiasts are,” said Station Manager Howard Higginson. “There will be on the spot quizzes and challenges as well as some fun giveaways for all plus the chance for people to meet the drivers and see the cars.”
Visitors to the centre on Thursday could also win the chance to get a behind the scenes visit to the Brookspeed Team Trimite pit garage or a Scalextric Digital GT set.
The drivers will be signing autographs in the Main Square from 11.00 before the Brookspeed Team Trimite Dodge Viper and Carlin Motorsport Dallara head to race at Oulton Park over the Easter weekend, 22&24 March.
