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Fiat championship winners to launch two-car Punto Dunlop Sport Maxx Cup team |
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
AMR Racing Limited, three-times Fiat Racing Challenge champions with Martin Riman and team principal Adrian Miller, have announced plans to build two Fiat Punto HGTs for the BARC/Dunlop Sport Maxx Cup.
Miller has decided to build the two cars for Class B, encompassing his race winning Fiat Challenge experience, to run alongside the SEAT Leon FR that the team are entering in Class C., and hopes to sign two drivers before the first race at Snetterton on April 29th.
Miller expects the 1.8 litre sixteen valve Puntos to offer a great
value, but highly competitive route to success in the Cup. “With 127bhp
per tonne they sit right at the top of Class B (up to 131bhp per tonne
limit), yet offer a very low cost entry point into a well promoted,
televised series.”
The AMR Puntos will be available on an ‘arrive-and-drive’ basis for
£10,000 for the twelve round (six double header) series, or are on sale
at £7995+VAT to drivers who would prefer to run the cars themselves.
James Bailey of Dunlop added: “An off the shelf, professionally built,
ready to race car for under £8000 is evidence that the Dunlop Sport
Maxx Cup can cater for club racers as well as professional teams and
benefit from TV coverage and the promotional package that Dunlop Great
and British Festivals receive”
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