World famous motor sport champion Neel Jani receives offer to compete in FIA GT1 World Championship with Team Matech Concepts

Jani to make brief India trip

Neel Jani, world famous motor sport champion and driver of Indian origin, received an offer this week to drive for Team Matech Concepts participating in the FIA GT1 World Championship.  If accepted, Neel will be driving the team’s Ford GT along side former Renault F1 driver Romain Grosjean.

 Jani, who is a former A1GP World Champion and Toro Rosso F1 test driver, is currently completing his season in the Le Mans Series with Rebellion Racing alongside Nicolas Prost, son of former four-time F1 Champion Alain Prost, while continuing to participate in testing for Red Bull F1. 

“I was very happy to receive the offer from such a great team who has already been so successful in its young history,” said Jani of the offer.  “Obviously I will have a steep learning curve as I have never driven a GT car before, but I am very much looking forward to this new challenge in helping Matech achieve its aim to win the series championship.”

Just before competing in his first GT1 race in Spa, Belgium, Jani will complete a three-day tour of India.  He arrives in Bangalore on the 25^th of July and is expected to spend the majority of his time there, with a possible short trip to Hyderabad.

Neel confesses, “It has been some time since my last trip and I am really looking forward to coming back to India with my father. Unfortunately this trip has turned out much shorter than originally planned because of my recently signed contract. There’s some pending work – on both professional and personal fronts that I needed to sort out and then I was planning to give myself a few days off and travel around with my dad, whose coming along, but now I’ll have to rush off to Spa, so I’ve had to cut short the trip. But I’ve heard the weather in Bangalore is great now – so really looking forward to coming!”

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