Elton Julian to return to racing with own team in 2015 Blancpain GT
Former British Formula 3 race winner Elton Julian is to return to racing next season after a two-year break, driving with his own team in the Blancpain Endurance Series
Julian, who became the youngest winner of a British F3 race at 17 in 1992, quit racing after a season in the World Endurance Championship with the Greaves LMP2 team at the end of 2012 to concentrate on running his US DragonSpeed team.
Now he is back in the cockpit at the behest of DragonSpeed Pirelli World Challenge driver Henrik Hedman, who will be part of the team's line-up aboard a Ferrari 458 Italia in the five-round BES next year.
Julian said: "When your best customer says I want to do this, but only if you are one of the drivers, it is difficult to say no.
"The best thing is that I will get to do it with my own team, which is still going to be my priority."
Julian, who holds both US and Ecuadorean nationality, said he was excited to bring a team he established back in 2007 to Europe for the first time.
"The future points to Europe as far as GT racing goes, and it is where I did most of my racing in my early years, so it makes sense for us as a team," he added.
The third driver for DragonSpeed's Pro-Am class assault on the BES alongside Julian and Hedman, who lies second in amateur class points in the World Challenge, has yet to be decided.
DragonSpeed expects to run its BES programme from a base in France, but will continue to compete in the World Challenge and the North American Ferrari Challenge.
DID YOU KNOW...
...this is Julian's fourth comeback. He didn't race between a full season in Formula 3000 in 1996 and two Formula Atlantic races in 1999.
He was absent from the cockpit again until three sportscar drives, including a maiden Le Mans 24 Hours start (pictured), in 2005-06.
He again didn't compete between the 2006 Sebring 12 Hours and the same race in '10, when he began a full season in the LMPC class of the American Le Mans Series.
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