GRC Racing

The Team

GRC Racing driven by Spirit...

We, a group of 3-4 natural born petrol heads decided to change from sprint racing to endurance racing. Price per driving Km. was extreme in sprint racing and lots of waiting time that is very often involved in a sprintrace weekend. A sprintrace weekend normally consists for just over 1hour of tracktime whereas we during a 24H weekend get nearly 8 hours of track time per driver!!!

In addition we have to realized that we will never be offered any worksdriver contract so for us the main objective was, and still is, to stretch our resources as far as possible whether it's our own money or sponsorships.

We looked into the market of renting cars and seats for endurance races and did participate in some races as "pay drivers" in other teams, but every time with the same result…. Cars and teams were not like described and the repair costs after the race were astronomically high.

As we enjoyed the endurance races we had only one option and that was to build our own team! This we did and now cars and team are like we want them to be… This has been a long, hard, and very costly road which now after 2 years finally has started to pay off result- and attention wise.

With this approach we are doing things very differently than many other teams… We want paydrivers to feel like a part of the team so they will come back and drive with us again. We try to help less experienced drivers to race with us but all drivers must be a part of the “Family”. We always have one main aim and that is to have lots of good experiences together and to see that finish line! Then good results will follow and we have learned that when it comes to 24h racing, patience is the key factor to success.

Everyone in the crew is equally important from catering girls to chief mechanics, so the atmosphere is very friendly and we all have the same aim.. furthermore giving up is not an option for us!

The economic side is very important to us of course... we run on a cost sharing basis so the prices we offer are depending on that we all run after the same set of rules.

We hope these points are similar to your ideas and wishes and we would love to welcome you to GRC Racing.

But remember "To finish first, first you have to finish..."

Best regards

GRC Racing
Jan Kalmar


	Name *Jan Kalmar*
	Position Team Principal

	Name *Ilya Melnikov*
	Position Driver

	Name *Vadim Kogay*
	Position Driver

	Name *Dominik Quosdorf*
	Position Race Engineer

	Name *Nick Spitzer*
	Position Data Engineer

	Name *Hans Voigtmann*
	Position Car Chief

	Name *Markus Hauser*
	Position Mechanics

	Name *Sarah Kalmar*
	Position PR, Marketing, Photo and sponsoring Manager

	Name *Peter Hindsgaul*
	Position Webmaster