The 2014 Baylis & Harding Porsche Club Championship with Pirelli season kicks off at Brands Hatch in Kent on Saturday May 3rd with an exciting season in store with a field featuring a host of former champions. In a new era for the series Baylis & Harding join as title sponsor and a full TV package is in place for the first time, with every meeting having a standalone one-hour programme on Motors TV.“We’ve got a good level of entries and some real strength in the driving talent on display,” says series coordinator Steve Kevlin. “We have some new competitors we are delighted to have in the series as well as some regular faces back in new cars, so we have a lot to look forward to this year.”Reigning champion John McCullagh returns but is stepping up to Class One and takes over the Hartech Boxster S campaigned so successfully by Tom Bradshaw last season. Multiple race-winner Bradshaw will be out in Hartech’s 996 C2 at Brands Hatch, a car he will be sharing this season will fellow former Class One champion Marcus Carniel.Pete Morris is always strong at Brands in his 996, with former champion Mark McAleer also threatening in his similar car. Jonathan Evans is another to move up from Class Two for 2014 and is out in a Boxster S at a circuit known to suit the model. The Paragon 964s of Mark Sumpter and series sponsor Adrian Slater will always be a threat, the team revelling in taking on much newer machinery in their older cars.In Class Two the lone Boxster of Stuart Ings is taking on the massed ranks of the 968 CS racers, Mark Koeberle and Andy Toon heading up the front-engined challenge. Class Three sees Jake McAleer, son of Class One’s Mark, makes his race debut, while former Porsche Classic champion John Williams brings out his venerable 911 2.7 RS.Qualifying is early on Saturday morning at 09.00 and the two 25-minute races at 12.30 and 17.45.