TOCA Carrera Cup Season Preview:
The GT5 Carrera's are approaching the end of there life cycle, so it is a pleasant surprise to see 20 registered entries for the TOCA-supporting Carrera Cup. A new class system to accompany the overall championship promises to also mix up the standings.
In the top "Pro" category, it is hard to look past reigning Carrera champion Spurgy, although he is now part of his own team. Carbonox is a rapid driver and should also be a contender, with Neljack and Akmuq both very handy and competitive racers with race win chances. Current TOCA9 Championship leader Yeratel is also on form going into Round 1.
Pro-Am1 see's the bulk of the field, with TOCA veterans RPM fielding two cars, 1 as ever for recently crowned GT Class winner Furinkazen as he links up with O'Rama and his O'Ramaspeed outfit. Gokartman is always one of the most rapid drivers in any competition and amongst early favourites. Sakery is more used to high powered GT's then TOCA so should be no slouch in these, the same case with TOCA front-runner Snowcrash. NASCAR veteran RedPartyHat is in line for a seasonal campaign, as well as ex TOCA and current WSC driver Lout. Joining us later in the season are PaulMac, who has elected to skip Monza to get more miles down in the RUF RGT, and probably FlyingFox, currently suffering a hand injury.
Pro-Am2 offers a chance to newer drivers to grab some silverware of there own. Resh and Sparky extend there campaign from the Global GT series and will look to break up the team of DJ and Mikey, with Jamsy looking to capitalise with some good runs.