N&C Glass are excited to announce the sponsorship of Professional motorsport race driver, Mark Cole as he competes in the prestigious 2015 Porsche Carrera Cup GB championship.
The sponsorship marks a key milestone for N&C Glass as it celebrates 140 years of supplying high performance glass and glazing solutions within Great Britain.
The Porsche Carrera Cup GB is the fastest and most successful single marque GT racing Championship in the UK. Follow the action on ITV4, the official broadcast partner for the Cup whereby over the course of the season, broadcasts reach an annual audience in excess of 20 million viewers. The championship sits alongside the TOCA BTCC (British Touring Car Championship) series.
Mark Cole has over 25 years experience of racing having won the same Porsche Carrera Cup championship back in 2002 in its first year in the UK. Mark returns to racing following an 8-year sabbatical! In the past Mark has been a race winner in Formula Ford 1600 during the late 80’s and early 90’s. He finished 4th in the Renault Spider Cup 1999, was Vice-Champion in the Autobytel Lotus Elise Championship in 2001, a race winner in the Britcar Series and is latterly a McLaren Automotive instructor and coach to new McLaren owners, staff and guests at events globally.
The prestigious association with the Porsche Carrera Cup 2015 will not only help to potentially increase the awareness of N&C to the wider marketplace, it will help to better define our positioning in the market – as a supplier, manufacturer and distributor of quality, high performance glass and glazing products.
The Carrera Cup is essentially a one-make series and the cars are all identical. Usually having a 3-4 year life cycle before Porsche upgrade to the next generation. The latest cars are the type 991 Porsche 911 GT3 ‘Cup’ car, these are pure race versions of the famous road going GT3 model and are all built by hand at Porsche Motorsport division Weissach, Germany. Each powered by identical, sealed and very charismatic, rear-mounted 460 BHP flat-six engines. The racing edition of the iconic 911 coupe has thrilled spectators around the UK in support of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) since 2002.
Over the past decade, the Porsche Carrera Cup GB has become an established competition with over 30,000 enthusiastic spectators attend the majority of races, and total crowds of approximately 370,000 over the duration of the season visit the circuits in England and Scotland to enjoy the high octane atmosphere.
2015 is a milestone for Nicholls & Clarke Glass as the Company celebrate 140 years of supplying building materials to the construction industry in Great Britain – 140 being a significant number as it reflects their registration number of ‘140’.
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