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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
Superleague Formula's Turkish
club Galatasaray SK, has joined forces with leading Italian motorsport team
Scuderia Playteam Sarafree for its 2008 championship assault.
Fresh from
factory-backed campaigns in the FIA GT Championship and International GT Open in
2007, the Italian squad will represent Galatasaray SK in the 750 horsepower
V12-powered single seater championship that will debut to debut in August this
year.
"After long discussions and several working meetings in Istanbul, my dream has
progressed. Scuderia Playteam is now ready to join this unique Superleague
championship with a great partner: Galatasaray SK,” said Giambattista
Giannoccaro, owner and founder of Scuderia Playteam.
Scuderia Playteam
invited a number of leading drivers from various racing series to test Formula
3000 single seater cars at Vallelunga, near Rome (Italy), from February 4-6 in
preparation for the team's new upcoming Superleague Formula challenge.
Amongst them was the young F3000 Euroseries champion Davide Rigon; Marco
Bonanomi, who currently competes in the GP2 Asia Series with Piquet Racing;
Giacomo Ricci, 2006 European F3000 champion and Alessandro Pier Guidi who a
Maserati MC12 for Playteam in the FIA GT Championship.
Portuguese Filipe
Albuquerque, Frenchman Bruce Jouanny plus Galatasaray fan and Turkish local hero
Jason Tahinci also joined them - recording plenty of mileage aboard Formula 3000
machinery while logging competitive lap times to prepare for this innovative
formula.
 “We are finalizing contracts with drivers and are convinced of
being able to be ready to produce a high level great race weekend entertainment
package for spectators around Europe," Giannoccaro said.
"I’m sure the
Galatasaray SK fans will closely follow the launch of our Superleague Formula,
and cheer for us in the competition. I love excellent football. Galatasaray SK
is one of the best football clubs to come to the race track, and at Scuderia
Playteam we are putting together the best racing resources.
"The entire
grid of this new Formula is filling up and I can foresee it will be a tough and
high level competition. We will be ready for the first race scheduled to kick
off at Donington Park in England in August 2008.”
Galatasaray's entry
into the Superleague Formula championship will be unveiled in Istanbul in early
March. The Turkish club joins European rivals AC Milan, Olympiacos, FC Porto,
PSV Eindhoven, Borussia Dortmund, RSC Anderlecht, FC Basel and Sevilla FC plus
Brazilian clubs Flamengo and Corinthians.
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