Makowiecki returns to GT1 with Marc VDS

The year 2011 promises to be busy for Frédéric Makowiecki. The Frenchman, who will compete in the ILMC aboard a Ferrari 458 GTC from Luxury Racing, also enters the FIA ​​GT1 world championship. Third in the final ranking last year with the Hexis AMR team, Mako joined the Marc VDS Racing Team. He will share the wheel of the No. 41 Ford GT with Belgian Maxime Martin.

“I am delighted to join the Marc VDS Racing Team after a first season which I finished in third position, He says. I hope that this year we will be able to do better, and fight for the title. Last year I fought against the Ford GTs, and the car seems to have a good chassis. »

“We are very happy to have signed a driver of Frédéric’s caliber for the coming season, continues team manager Michel Delporte. For me, the two revelations of the 2010 season were Maxime Martin and Frédéric Makowiecki. Seeing them combined on one of our Ford GTs is therefore a very interesting prospect, for the team and for the championship. »

On the sister car, number 40, Bas Leinders and Marc Hennerici. Boss Marc van der Straten is confident about this 2011 season. According to him, with such a quartet, his team should be able to fight for the title. Unfortunately, it is not certain that Mako will be present at all the rounds, two clashes of dates existing between the ILMC and the FIA ​​GT1 world championship.

Frédéric Makowiecki will sit in the seat of the Ford GT for the first time today and tomorrow during a test session on the Portuguese circuit of Portimao.