22.12.2005 German team B-Racing RS Line is planning to enter a 2006 specification version of the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT in the European based rounds of next year's FIA GT Championship

German team B-Racing RS Line is planning to enter a 2006 specification version of the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT in the European based rounds of next year's FIA GT Championship.  “Thanks to the engagement of main sponsor Neue Medien Münnich the team will be able to rise to the top class of sportscar endurance racing,” the team explained.

German-based Reiter Engineering - who have built and developed the Murciélago R-GT project - will be supplying the car for the team, which also has ambitious plans to enter the Le Mans Endurance Series (LMES), as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Logistics will be provided by RS-Line Race Support. The first driver of the team has been named as Austro-American Norbert Walchhofer. The multiple Ferrari-Challenge Champion will integrate his sponsorship package into the new team. The team's first test with the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT took place at the Adria Raceway in Italy, on December 20th.

The Reiter Engineering GT1-class Murciélago R-GT made sporadic appearances in the FIA GT Championship this year, mostly in the hands of German pilot Norman Simon (who previously drove the Amprex Motorsports Murciélago R-GT in the Japanese GT Championship last years) and Dutchman Peter Kox (who has closely been involved in the development of the project since its inception).
 

Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT

The Reiter Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT appeared at the Brno FIA GT Championship race this year, where ex-F1 driver Gianni Morbidelli joined Peter Kox in the cockpit

Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT

German team B-Racing RS Line is planning to enter a 2006 specification version of the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT in the European based rounds of next year's FIA GT Championship


The pair R-GT qualified in an excellent seventh place at the season opener in Monza, before retiring after 28 laps. At Magny-Cours during the second round of the series, Kox again qualified in seventh place and ran strongly early on before gearbox problems intervened. The next appearance for the Reiter R-GT came at Brno where ex-F1 driver Gianni Morbidelli joined Peter Kox in the cockpit. After qualifying on the third row of the grid the black car was punted out of the race at the start after it collected a spinning Corvette.

On Reiter's home turf at Oschersleben for round seven of the FIA GT series, and their last appearance of the season, the German team finally notched up their first finish of the year, Simon - now back with the team - and Kox, finishing the 3-hour FIA GT race in eighth place, after having qualified in eleventh.
 

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