K-PAX Racing returns to GTWC Europe with Lamborghini for 2023

K-PAX Racing is delighted to announce that it will be making a return to the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS for the 2023 season, with a star line up behind the wheel of its Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2.

Combining in the Pro class of the Endurance Cup will be a trio of Lamborghini Squadra Corse Factory Drivers: Franck Perera from France, Sandy Mitchell from the United Kingdom, and Marco Mapelli from Italy.

Based in Sonoma, California, the successful outfit clinched three titles in the Fanatec GT World Challenge America last season, locking up back-to-back Drivers’, Teams’, and Manufacturers’ championship honors in dominant fashion, which included a remarkable ten month, ten round unbeaten streak – the longest in its history.

K-PAX Racing also made a return to the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa in 2022, joining forces with Orange1 to cross the line in 11th position – which included leading the contest at one stage – meaning it has a 100% finishing record in the race to date. With the marquee event the jewel in the Fanatec GT crown, all eyes will be firmly fixed on the summer spectacular, which is held across the end of June and start of July.

Franck, from Montpelier in France, is an experienced racer who claimed his first title in Formula Renault 2.0 in 2003. A Formula 1 test driver in the mid-2000s, he competed in Champ Car and IndyCar before switching to GT and endurance racing, clinching the European Le Mans Series GTC crown in 2015, and is no stranger to K-PAX Racing, having joined the team on several occasions including at last year’s Indianapolis 8 Hours.

22-year-old Sandy hails from Forfar in Scotland and is now in his third year as a Lamborghini Squadra Corse Factory Driver. In 2016, when he was just 16, he became the youngest ever pole position holder and race winner in the Intelligent Money British GT Championship, and he has won at the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa in both the Silver Cup and Pro-Am, was second in the 2019 Super Trofeo World Final, and clinched the 2020 British GT title behind the wheel of a Huracán GT3.

Italian Marco, from Seregno, has been a Lamborghini Factory driver since 2017, and shared an overall sweep of the 2019 Fanatec GT World Challenge in both Europe’s Sprint and Endurance Cup series. In 2020 he finished second in GTD at the 24 Hours of Daytona and has competed with K-PAX Racing at the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa and Indianapolis 8 Hours Presented by AWS.

The Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe season takes in five rounds at some of Europe’s most iconic venues, with races of three, six, and 24 hours in length. The season begins at Circuit Paul Ricard in France, for the Official Test Days, concluding at Barcelona in Spain in October.