Turner Motorsport, the 2014 championship-winning team in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship GTD class, has announced that it will run a two-car team in the Pirelli World Challenge series in 2015.
Will Turner says two Z4 GT3s will arrive from Germany soon, and that drivers will be announced “in a few weeks.”
The rapidly growing Pirelli World Challenge Series allows the Z4 to run in full GT3 specs, unlike the Tudor Series, which imposes restrictions on the cars. Turner says “I really like the fact that we can race the BMW Z4 GT3 as it was intended, with traction control, ABS and the proper aero for the car. Unlike the GTD rules in IMSA, PWC allows the car to run as it engineered by BMW Motorsport.” The earliest of Turner’s seven professional racing championships were won in World Challenge in 2003 and 2004.
Turner’s release indicates that the announcement “does not mean it’s the only racing we will do in 2015.” While a CTSCC program is highly likely, there are no plans in place at this point to run a Tudor series program.
Unlike the Tudor Series, which runs endurance races, PWC runs two 45-minute sprint races on each of its race weekends. The ten-event series begins it 2015 season at Circuit of the Americas on March 6-8 and ends it at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on September 11-13.
A few days after Turner's announcement, Dane Cameron, who co-drove the GTD winning Z4 with Marcus Palttala and won the GTD drivers' championship, announced his plans for 2015. Cameron and Eric Curran will drive a Corvette DP for Action Express in the Tudor Series in 2015. Cameron drove a Riley-BMW DP for Team Sahlen before he moved to Turner's team.—Brian S. Morgan
