2011’s European GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough has been nominated by UK magazine Autosport for their British Club Racing Driver of the Year award.
The nomination follows a remarkable rookie season in which Jann and his RJN Motorsport team won their first British GT pole position at the Nürburgring and race at Brands Hatch, remaining in the running for the overall title with just an hour of the season remaining. Previous winners of the award include future F1 drivers Eddie Irvine, David Coulthard and future IndyCar and Indy 500 champion Dario Franchitti.
The award is one of two with GT Academy involvement as the Highcroft Racing Nissan DeltaWing, recently driven to an incredible 5th place overall at Petit Le Mans by a team including 2009 GT Academy winner Lucas Ordoñez, is nominated as Racing Car of the Year. Voting forms for all the award categories can be found on page 82 of this week’s (25th October) Autosport magazine, while the awards ceremony itself will be held on December 2nd at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.
This weekend also marks the final appearance this season of a GT Academy driver in a major international race series, as 2010’s winner Jordan Tresson competes in the 6hr of Shanghai.
After Saturday’s qualifying at the Shanghai International Circuit, the French driver’s #23 Signatech Nissan sits 7th in class ahead of Sunday’s race. The race gets underway at 03.00GMT/UTC on Sunday with a live stream available on the FIA WEC website and commentary on Radio Le Mans.
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That’s fantastic. It has been a pretty great season for him so far. Go Jann! いいな！Jealous! Score one for Jann, GTAcademy and the GT community.
Congrats, Jann!!
Nominated drivers
SCOTT MALVERN – Formula Renault BARC
JANN MARDENBOROUGH
MICHAEL MEADOWS – Porsche Carrera Cup
BEN BARKER – Carrera Cup GB
JACK GOFF – Renault Clio Cup
CARL BREEZE – Ginetta champion
Famous drivers rewarded as “British Club Driver of the Yeay”:
1987 – Eddie Irvine
1989 – David Coulthard
1993 – Dario Franchitti
1999 – Andy Priaulx
2003 – Lewis Hamilton
Nice!!!
Nice job Rookie, keep up the good work! It’s been fun watching you develop and I think I can speak for most when I say we look forward to the next chapter!!
Congrats Jan! You’re the man. Good luck this weekend Jordan.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congrats Jann! :)
congrats jann
Wow congrats Jann :)