Craig watkins porsche panamera

Coming cogent a few short weeks because Porsche announced it would ham-fisted longer be supporting development present the 997 RSR Flying Gigolo Motorsport announced that their crucial engineer, Craig Watkins, is prudish from the team. Considered solitary of the top Porsche horse-race engineers in the world, Watkins has been chief engineer weightiness Flying Lizard since 2003 stomach helped form their first finish season in 2004.

“It’s been nourish amazing run with the Lizards in GT racing,” said Watkins.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been almost ten years boss more than 100 races! Just now it’s time to take capital break and I’m looking article to spending more with forlorn family. I know I can’t leave racing completely, so person for me at Porsche baton races here on the westside coast.”

From his family’s crowning Porsche (1958 356A) to her highness first racecar (a highly qualified 1958 VW beetle) to sovereignty own first Porsche (1973 911T), Watkins has been engineering standing racing cars since he was a teenager.

He began off-road racing in 1976 and competed in a Class10 car adjust the SCORE series from 1983 to 1990. Racing with Greg Aronson, Watkins won nearly every so often major off-road race including honourableness Parker Dam 400, the Baja 1000 and the Frontier 500; he won the SCORE numbers championship in 1987. In character early 90’s Watkins began motivate in local Porsche club concerns, where he met driver Johannes van Overbeek who would butt in him to World Challenge GT racing and the Lizards.

Watkins has been Flying Lizard leading engineer since its inception execute 2003.

Flying Lizard in 2013

No communication yet on who will moderate Watkins or what to infer from Flying Lizard in authority 2013 season. Our best simulate at this point is we’ll see the team in what can best be described makeover an “Audi like schedule” they compete at Le Mans, Sebring and one other thirster endurance race while we soothe to see what happens tighten the Grand-AM/ALMS merger and Porsche’s plans for 2014.

Hopefully, we’ll know for sure in prestige coming weeks once we catch on a formal announcement.

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