Sweet success for Gulf at Silverstone

Gulf's Barazi-Epsilon team raced all the way to the top at Silverstone at the Le Mans Series. The race presented the team with tough competition but the Gulf team proved too quick and unbeatable.

THE GULF TEAM WINNERS AT SILVERSTONE

GULF OIL INTERNATIONAL MOTORSPORT
Racing with Barazi-Epsilon

LE MANS SERIES ROUND 5 - SILVERSTONE 1000 KMS
 
The Gulf-sponsored Barazi-Epsilon Zytek 07S of Juan Barazi, Michael Vergers and Karim Ojjeh swept to the top step of the victory podium in the LMP2 Category - and fifth place overall - in the UK Round of the Le Mans Series (LMS) - the Silverstone 1000KMs.
 
The battle for LMP2 was one of highlights of the day, with the lead changing hands several times and looking in doubt all the way through to the final minutes of the race.
 
As the clock moved to Midday, Juan Barazi took the opening stint in the Gulf Zytek and he drove rapidly and consistently for his two hours, bringing the car in fourth in LMP2 and thirteenth overall.
 
Michael Vergers took on the middle stint and in a trademark drive from the Dutchman, moved the Gulf Zytek up through the order both in category and in overall terms.
 
So it was left to Karim Ojjeh to drive the final two hours and the Gulf driver set to work maintaining the lead he had been given. Settling rapidly into the car he drove an almost faultless last stint - seeing off the challenge of Warren Hughes in the Radical and then maintaining a fast enough pace to ensure he stayed ahead of the second Zytek of the LNT Team and ensure the first Gulf victory this season, at the track where coincidentally, it last achieved LMP2 victory, in 2005.

 
It was a jubilant Barazi-Epsilon team, therefore, saw finally reward for all of its hard work, and fittingly this was achieved in front of the biggest crowd of Gulf guests of the season, which included representatives of Gulf affiliates from Belgium and from Turkey.
 
The next round of the Le Mans Series takes place in Interlagos, Brazil. The LMS finale will take place at the home of the Brazilian F1 GP, the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paolo. It will be the first time that the LMS has visited South America and Gulf affiliates from all over the continent are gathering for what will hopefully be another successful weekend.