The dream of moving into the Avon Tyres British GT Championship has turned into something of a nightmare for Team Scandal after its Prosport LM3000 was deemed ineligible for the GTC class following the Donington Park round.
The car, also run by the Data Protection Solutions team, has been moved into the GT2 category after a number of GTC teams argued that it shouldn’t be allowed to compete in the series.
Crash.net Radio took the chance to speak to Simon Scuffham from Team Scandal about the issue and what follows is the exclusive interview in full...
Crash.net Radio:
As has been well documented you have hit problems with the car, I wonder if you can just summarise where we stand at the moment.
Simon Scuffham:
I can only tell you what I know at this moment in time. We entered the LM3000 after conversations with SRO at the beginning of the year in January and February, basically to confirm its eligibility and to find out what specification we could run, and to find out what the ground rules are for a Prosport in GT. We were aware at the time that two different Prosports had been running in 2004 and 2005, possibly not to the greatest effect, but it wasn’t going to be a new thing for the series to have Prosports entered and we didn’t anticipate a lot of problems.
We had every intention of doing all the rounds, but we didn’t make the first one at
Oulton Park because, due to other commitments, we hadn’t got the car ready so we bailed out with the intention being to make our debut at
Donington. Things went reasonably well there, even though we are slightly behind on tyre testing. The car is new to Avon and has always run on Dunlops in the past, so we are still only 80-85 per cent there with Avon but were happy enough that we had a car that we could race and that was safe.
