Who The Heck Are.....? Number Three - GruppeM-Eterniti

This equipe turned up on the full season Le Mans Series entry with a GTE class Porsche and ex BTCC man Stephen Jelley listed as driver.

It marks the return to European racing for GruppeM head Kenny Chen who enjoyed championship-winning success with Porsche machinery in the British GT Championship in 2004, the FIA GT Championship in 2005 and the Asian Porsche Carrera Cup in 2005 and ’07.

The team will be run by Stuart Parker, whose Team Parker Racing organisation has been one of British motorsport’s most-successful teams of the past decade. It is a multiple winner of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB, most recently in 2009, while Parker has engineered successfully in the Porsche Supercup and Asian Carrera Cup. The team has gained experience of endurance racing, principally in the VLN series on Germany’s Nurburgring Nordschleife.

“We are extremely excited to be returning to top-level GT racing,” said Chen. “The current LMS entry is so strong that we fully expect it to be a huge challenge, but we will be trying our best as a team to come back and fight for the success that we have enjoyed in the past.”
 
“This is an entirely new team, which has been set up with only this project in mind,” said Parker. “We will draw on our strengths and experience with the aim of guiding the team to success."
 
“This represents a fantastic opportunity to move into the highest level of GT competition with a great partner. We have been looking for a partner to do something like this with for years, and at last it has happened. I have enjoyed great success with GruppeM in Asia and look forward to the challenge of the Le Mans Series.”
 
GruppeM-Eterniti Racing expects to take delivery of its Porsche imminently and will then embark on a pre-season test programme.

Despite being listed in the car on the season entry the team is reportedly still working on securing the services of Stephen Jelley, who finished third in last season’s Carrera Cup GB and took two race wins with Team Parker Racing.

The team is close to signing another professional driver, and is looking for an additional driver of the correct calibre to complete the three-driver line-up.
 
Any enquiries from drivers should be directed to Stuart Parker at stuart@teamparkerracing.com