Baku to host City Challenge auto racing
Baku, October 22 (AZERTAC). City Challenge is holding its next event in Baku, Azerbaijan. The organizers say they will bring 3 days of exciting entertainment, breathtaking city races and lots of fun activities for the whole family to Baku City. The event will be held on the weekend of October 26 - 28. The entry list for the GT race includes a nice variety of seven different car brands, with the famous sports car manufacturers BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche all being represented for the inaugural event on the streets of Baku. The driver line-up is equally impressive, with former Formula 1 and CART champion Jacques Villeneuve, ex-F1 racer and Le Mans class winner Jos Verstappen and multiple DTM champion Bernd Schneider on the grid. “I have never been in Baku before and I am looking forward to racing there,” says Bernd Schneider, who will be teaming up with Russian driver Sergey Afanasiev in one of the German HEICO Motorsport team’s pair of Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 cars. GT World Championship winning teams HEXIS and Vita4One are among the eleven teams taking part in this race. Other teams to have signed up are Muhlner Motorsport, with Baku-based driver Mark J. Thomas driving one of its Porsches, Rhino’s Leipert Motorsport, Molitor Racing, Franz Konrad Motorsport, Vita4One Italy, Motopark, ATTEMPTO Racing and GRT Grasser Racing Team, the official website reported. The project, organized by the City Challenge, will be broadcast online by the international TV channels. The competition that will be held with the support of the Azerbaijani Youth and Sport Ministry will be held on Neftchilar (from Azadlig Square) on a line length of 2.1 km.
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