{"id":10558,"date":"2011-01-17T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10558"},"modified":"2011-01-17T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T23:26:10","slug":"west-racing-names-first-drivers-for-lamborghini-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/west-racing-names-first-drivers-for-lamborghini-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"West Racing Names First Drivers For Lamborghini Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastorelli, Schwager to lead full-season ALMS charge in Yokohama-shod GT2 entry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-center aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/West-racing.jpg\" alt=\"West-racing\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>West Racing named Nicky Pastorelli and Dominik Schwager as the first two drivers of its Yokohama Tire Corporation-sponsored Lamborghini on Monday. The two were teammates in last year\u2019s FIA GT1 championship and will campaign West Racing\u2019s first ADVAN\u00ae A005 tire-shod Lamborghini in the 2011 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/Dominik-Schwager.jpg\" alt=\"Dominik-Schwager\" width=\"307\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/posts-alms\/Nicky-Pastorelli.jpg\" alt=\"Nicky-Pastorelli\" width=\"307\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier, the team hopes to test at Sebring later this month and plans to return for the annual Winter Test from February 9-10. It will make its race debut at the 59th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida on March 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Racing owner Eduardo Espindola has hired two top-notch, seasoned pros,\u201d said Andrew Briggs, Yokohama senior manager of motorsports. \u201cThe competition will be tough, but Nicky and Dominik have experience racing Lamborghinis, so we\u2019re anticipating an exciting, successful season. I\u2019m confident Yokohama\u2019s motorsports heritage will be very well represented by Nicky and Dominik and the entire West Racing Team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to be part of the West-Yokohama racing team,\u201d said the Dutch-born\/Italian-bred Pastorelli, who won the European F3000 championship in 2004. \u201cIt\u2019s a great challenge to be part of a new project and help make it successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pastorelli has seven ALMS starts to his credit \u2013 all with VICI Racing in a GT2 Porsche. His best finish was a fifth-place showing with Johannes Stuck at Utah in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The ALMS campaign will reunite the German-born Schwager with Yokohama. In 2004, he was a driver of the ADVAN-shod Toyota Supra in the Japanese Super GT series. \u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in ALMS racing, so this is a tremendous opportunity,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we\u2019re a new team, I know the task ahead is going to be demanding, but thanks to technology partners like Yokohama, I know we\u2019ll be competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Racing and the rest of American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patr\u00f3n will open 2011 at the 59th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida on Saturday, March 19. The race, set for 10:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, March 19, will be shown in its live and in its entirety on ESPN3.com and americanlemans.com. ABC will provide coverage beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 20. Visit the American Le Mans Series\u2019 schedule page for information on tickets and area accommodations.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the Series on Twitter (almsnotes), on our Facebook page and the official YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | ALMS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastorelli, Schwager to lead full-season ALMS charge in Yokohama-shod GT2 entry West Racing named Nicky Pastorelli and Dominik Schwager as the first two drivers of its Yokohama Tire Corporation-sponsored Lamborghini on Monday. The two were teammates in last year\u2019s FIA GT1 championship and will campaign West Racing\u2019s first ADVAN\u00ae A005 tire-shod Lamborghini in the 2011 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9,2120],"tags":[5264,5334,2693,2690,2692,2691,2689,2688,5276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10562,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions\/10562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}