Following on from an inter season during which the Swiss
Matech Racing team were hard at work, they finally got to the heart of the matter this weekend at Silverstone for the opening round of the European FIA GT competition. And in the pitlane the least one could say is that all eyes were on the Matech armada, with the Ford GTs respectively for Luca Pirri and Jürgen Von Gartzen (#19), Thomas Mutsch and Ian Khan (#20), Edward Morris and Bradley Ellis (#21), not forgetting the trio of Ford Mustang FR500GT3s, power beasts in full evolution, and being tamed by Eric De Doncker and Scott Maxwell (#22), Thierry Blaise and Nigel Greensall (#23), as also Romain Bera and Ron Marchal (#24). All this in a competition ever more fierce and where the slightest tenth of a second can make all the difference…