McLaren trifecta on track for first round of Australian GT Championship

 
Three McLaren GT cars will hit the track this weekend for the opening round of the 2015 Australian GT Championship. The Adelaide Clipsal race weekend will be held from Thursday 26 February to Sunday 01 March with three McLaren GT3 vehicles competing. The McLarens will be driven by last year’s champion, Klark Quinn, who will compete alongside his father, Tony Quinn, and McLaren newcomer, Tony Walls.
 
Klark Quinn, will compete in the Darrell Lea McLaren 12C GT3 for this year’s Australian GT Championship and Tony Quinn will be debuting an all-new McLaren 650S GT3.   
 
Tony and Klark Quinn say of their partnership with McLaren: “After a great season last year, Darrell Lea Racing is excited to again be campaigning with McLaren, this year with two race-bred high performance GT3 cars.  We are looking forward to an exhilarating and highly competitive season with McLaren and the Australian GT Championship.”  
 
Tony Walls of Objective Racing will race one of McLaren’s newly built 650S GT3s, one of only 15 manufactured globally for 2015. Tony finished fifth in the 2013 and 2014 Carrera Cup Elite Championship after just two years in the racing.
 
On competing in this year’s Australian GT Championship, Walls said: “It is a privilege to be awarded one of the first new race cars to come out of the McLaren GT factory for 2015. The global growth in GT racing over the past two years has been extraordinary and the Australian GT Championship is shaping up to have its best year ever in 2015.”
 
Head of Sales and Operations, McLaren Automotive Asia Pacific, George Biggs said: “Racing is in McLaren’s blood, and we’re thrilled to see three McLaren race cars competing in the Australian GT Championship this year and showcasing, once again, McLaren’s heritage and pedigree in motor racing after 50 years on the track.”
 
Joining the three McLaren GT3 models in Adelaide will be a Storm Grey 650S Coupe, which will be on display at the racetrack for attendees and fans to view. With its uncompromised design and innovative engineering, the Storm Grey 650S combines exquisite materials with race-bred technology for an unrivalled super car driving experience.
   
 
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About McLaren Automotive:
McLaren Automotive is a British manufacturer of luxury, high-performance sports cars, located at the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) in Woking, Surrey.
 
Following the global launch of McLaren Automotive in 2010, the groundbreaking 12C was launched in 2011, the 12C Spider in 2012, and the limited-run McLaren P1™ went into production in 2013. In keeping with its plan to introduce a new model each year, the company unveiled the 650S, in coupe and Spider form in 2014, and has announced the Sports Series among the models to be introduced in 2015. The brand continues to expand, and McLaren posted a profit during 2013 – only the third year of vehicle production. This was followed in 2014, by a third consecutive year of growth in sales with a record 1,648 vehicles delivered via a dedicated global network of retailers in every major automotive market.
 
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To support the development, engineering and manufacture of its range of innovative and highly acclaimed sports cars, McLaren Automotive has partnered with world leading companies to provide specialist expertise and technology including, AkzoNobel, ExxonMobil, Pirelli and SAP.
 
Designed for the track; Developed for the road
The connection between Formula 1 and road cars at McLaren is a natural process of experience, knowledge, principles and process transfer. Through the integration of 50 years of Formula 1™ racing expertise and knowledge, and over 20 years of heritage in producing landmark sports cars, McLaren Automotive designs, develops and builds a range of technologically advanced and groundbreaking high performance sports cars which are designed to be a no compromise drive on both road and track.
 
McLaren has pioneered the use of carbon fibre in vehicle production over the past 30 years, and since introducing a carbon chassis into racing and road cars with the 1981 McLaren MP4/1 and 1993 McLaren F1 respectively, McLaren has not built a car without a carbon fibre chassis.
 
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