Redline Racing
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Redline Racing, established in 1995, made its first entry in the arena of motorsport racing in April 1997 by competing in the Michelin Porsche Cup. Having a 4-year racing experience Redline Racing entered the British National Porsche Carrera Cup in 2001 racing Porsche GT3s. They finished in second place in the championship that year and they repeated that success in 2003 and also 2005. The present peak of success, however, for Redline Racing was in 2004, where after a long and difficult racing season, they conquered first place and won the team championship for the first time along with driver Richard Westbrook
Richard Westbrook
Richard Westbrook is an English racing driver from Islington in London notable for his success in racing Porsche cars. As a boy he attended St Joseph's College, Ipswich...
who won the driver's championship.
In 2006 Redline's driver lineup consisted of Nigel Rice, Jason Young and Faithless lead singer Maxi Jazz
Maxi Jazz
Maxwell Alexander Fraser , better known as Maxi Jazz, is an English rapper. He is best known as the lead vocalist of British band Faithless.- Biography :...
. Westbrook also competed for the team. However, due to Westbrook's Supercup commitments the car was handed over to Danny Watts
Danny Watts
Danny Watts is a British racing driver.Danny Watts started racing in 1993, when he began karting. After five seasons of karting, he stepped up to single seater racing in 1998 in the UK Formula First championship, in which he dominated with 12 wins...
who, initially, substituted for Redline in the races Westbrook could not attend. Ultimately, with Westbrook leading, and eventually winning, the Porsche Michelin Supercup, all remaining drives in Westbrook's British Porsche were run by Danny Watts.
For 2007, Redline Racing moved into the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup (formerly Porsche Michelin Supercup) under the title banner of Team IRWIN SAS, whilst still competing with four drivers in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB. David Saelens is currently the sole Supercup driver for the team, with 1992 British Touring Car champion Tim Harvey
Tim Harvey
Tim Harvey is a racing driver from England. He was the 2008 and 2010 Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain Champion. A household name in the 1990s, Harvey won the prestigious BTCC title in 1992, and was a frontrunner for most of the late 80s and early 90s...
, Formula Renault race-winner James Sutton
James Sutton (racing driver)
James Sutton is a racing driver. He won the 2007 Porsche Carrera Cup-Early years:Before he embarked on a career in cars, Sutton raced in karting, winning the London Cup in 2000 before becoming the Junior TKM British champion in 2001, before moving onto Formula ICA and in 2003 racing in the British...
, Porsche Carrera GB Pro-Am vice champion Nigel Rice, and Maxi Jazz.
David Saelens finished the 2007 'Supercup' season in sixth place in the overall standings. While in Britain, Redline Racing were victors in all the UK titles. The Team Championship was won before the final race, with Harvey and Sutton as their nominated drivers, together scoring 11 race wins throughout the year. Sutton won the overall drivers title, with Harvey finishing second in the standings. The Pro-Am championship was dominated by Nigel Rice, who won 14 Pro-Am race wins and 17 podiums out of a possible 20.