V8 – Prémat moves to Red Bull Racing Australia

Already present in WeatherTech Sportscar Championship within Team Corsa for the four NAEC tests (bringing together the endurance rounds of the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen and the Petit finale Le Mans), Alexandre Prémat will also continue his Australian career in the very competitive V8 Supercars championship.

Competing full-time in 2012 and 2013 with Garry Rogers Motorsport, the 33-year-old Frenchman competed in the Enduro Cup races (the Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000 and the Gold Coast 600) the following two seasons, for from the training of Garry Rogers.

In 2016, the Triple Eight / Red Bull Racing Australia, which has been engaging the multiple champions for several years Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes, decided to trust the former Audi driver for the endurance events. He will join new arrival Shane van Gisbergen, an off-season defector from Tekno Autosports. Prémat will also return to the manufacturer Holden, after having worked on the Volvo S60 in 2014 and 2015.

“I will do everything I can to achieve good results, comments the Parisian. Personally, my goal is to become the first French winner at Bathurst. » The first round of the Enduro Cup program will be contested on September 18 at the Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Australia.