Tuesday, 22nd July 2008

Maxime Soulet and Christophe Pillon join SRT for the Spa 24 Hours.

SRT has named the two drivers that will join team regulars Christophe Bouchut and Xavier Maassen for the Spa 24 Hours next month.

The pair have enjoyed a strong season to date in the Corvette C6.R and lie second in the championship standings and will now be joined by Maxime Soulet and Christophe Pillon for the biggest race on the FIA GT calendar.

Soulet has past experience of the SRT team having driven the team's Corvette C5-R in the past while Pillon comes into the team having secured success in the prototype classes at Le Mans in recent years.

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"Following the recent test day Christophe Pillon and the team came to an agreement," team manager Patrick Selleslagh said. "We were both satisfied with the results of the test day, and an agreement was quickly concluded. Pillon might not be that well known in our part of the world but with two victories in the LMP675-class at Le Mans [2002 and 2003] to your name you can boast of a decent reference in endurance racing. More recently in 2005 he finished second in LMP2 in the LMS 1000 Km of Spa. In addition he also has FIA GT1 races with Larbre, JMB and Belmondo on his CV.

"All in all SRT can look back with satisfaction on the recent test day. Our drivers were all satisfied and at the end of the day it was only Marcel Fässler who was faster than our boys, and it was that same Fässler who only recently won a race for us in France. In addition we were able to work hard on the set-up with Michelin, with a view to putting in a strong performance in a month's time in Spa."

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