Saturday, 8 February 2014

2014 GPVWC.com Supercup car launch

Measuric Racing launched their car on TT circuit Assen, which is the teams test track. Afterwards, Ari Nieminen, Mike Bell and Riku Sarpila went on the track.


"The team is now finally ready with this fresh looking liverie" Mike Schroten explained. "Now we are ready for next weeks pre-season test at Istanbul park".

The liverie was made by Robert Wiesenmueller from Shark Skins.



Thursday, 6 February 2014

Measurics curse on the GPVWC winter series

No points were scored during the 2012-2013 GPVWC Winter GT (which later became the World GT), and it seems to be the same in this years’ winter series: the GPVWC International Touring Cup.


Looking back to last year; there was a pretty strong line-up with Lee Davidson and Mike Schroten as primary drivers and rookie Martijn Rietberg as reserve driver.
But Measuric racing was not able to score points, although there were some serious attempts. Mike Schroten was able to score points until he ran out of fuel with only 1.5 laps to go. Two weeks later, during the Daytona GT race, Mike Schroten had some serious chances to finish within the top-5, Schroten qualified 4th. But after almost one lap, while driving 5th, he lost connection to the server and retired.

2013/2014 International Touring Cup


Team manager Mike Schroten wanted revenge during GPVWC’s new winter series: the GPVWC International Touring Cup (ITC). With a line-up including Janne Vaananen and Jon MacLean as primary drivers and Joshua Anderson as reserve driver (and after a few rounds this line-up changed when Joshua Anderson replaced Jon MacLean in the #35 car. However, with only two more rounds to go, Vaananen and Anderson were not able to score points and the team is currently 21st in the standings, out of 22 competing teams.
 
With only two more rounds to score points, there is quite some pressure on the team. Are they able to break the curse, or will it dominate the team during the remainder of the season?

Measurics Ford Focus during the 2013/2014 GPVWC International Touring Cup