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Optimum enters full IMSA season with McLaren in GTD

British GT champion squad Optimum enters full IMSA season

The British squad made a one-off entry in last year’s season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, in which Brendan Iribe, Frederik Schandorff and Ben Barnicoat were classified 12th in class after Iribe was caught up in a multi-car restart crash.

American driver Iribe, a team regular since 2020, will share full-season driving duties with regular co-driver Ollie Millroy in 2022.

The pair won last year’s International GT Open Pro-Am title together and shared a Ferrari 488 GTE at Le Mans with Barnicoat, but Millroy sat out Petit Le Mans while attending the birth of his second child.

Danish driver Schandorff joins Bronze-rated Iribe and Millroy for the season-opening Daytona 24 Hours later this month, along with 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour winner Jordan Pepper, who was part of Inception’s Spa 24 Hours line-up last year.

South African Pepper was also due to join the team again for his home Intercontinental GT Challenge round in Kyalami before it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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