McLaren: Alain Valente prevails 🎥
GT4 COCKPIT FOR 2020 The McLaren-led sponsorship program enters its third year in 2020. Among the four drivers selected is Alain Valente from Bern. He moves from the German to the British GT4 series. Danny Buxton, McLaren Automotive's team director of propulsion, explains what the selection process was all about in this short video featuring action scenes. Focus on Great Britain Katie [...]
Danny Buxton, Team Leader Powertrain at McLaren Automotive, explains in the short video with action scenes what the selection process was all about.
Focus Great Britain
Katie Milner (GB), Michael Benyahia (USA), Harry Hayek (AUS) and the Swiss driver made the shortlist after an impressive 2019 season. They shone during the judging program to secure one of the coveted race seats in a McLaren 570S GT4.
As in 2018 and 2019, next year's program will be run by Customer Racing Team Tolman Motorsport with two cars in the British GT Championship. Further GT4 entries in other series are conceivable.
Four from 18 drivers
The final four drivers were selected from a group of 18 young, talented and up-and-coming drivers over an intensive two-day process. The names came from a wide range of motorsport backgrounds, each impressing individually in their respective 2019 campaigns in the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. The program took place at the Snetterton circuit in the UK.
A victory in the ADAC GT4 Germany
Alain Valente raced a McLaren in the newly launched German GT4 series in 2019. With Felix von der Laden, a YouTube star whose form as a racing driver fluctuates but who is certainly talented, as his partner, the man from Berne scored a race win in Spielberg. More was also not possible due to the disadvantageous Balance of Performance for the McLaren. Valente was previously successful in the GT4 European Series in 2018. In 2013, he won the Auto Sport Schweiz Young Driver Award.
