Gavin, Salo sign for Mad Croc in GT1
Oliver Gavin and Mika Salo have signed up for the new GT1 World Championship with the Mad Croc Corvette team
Multiple Le Mans GT1 winner and former American Le Mans GT1 champion Gavin is to contest the majority of the world championshp season, but will have to miss the Abu Dhabi, Brno and Nurburgring rounds due to clashes with the ALMS, where he will remain part of the factory Corvette GT2 team.
Former Ferrari Formula 1 driver Salo will deputise for the Briton at these events, with Finnish GT regular Pertti Kuismanen will driving the car for the full season.
Mad Croc is a new alliance between established FIA GT squads DKR and Selleslagh, Gavin having raced for the latter in last year's Spa 24 Hours.
"I'm really pleased to be back with Patrick [Selleslagh] and his team again for the seven events, after having had such a good connection with him last year," Gavin said.
"It's also wonderful to be back competing in Europe and I'm particularly pleased the first race of the year will be at my home track, Silverstone, as I haven't raced there since 2007.
"I'm looking forward and am intrigued to see how the GT1 World Championship will evolve, and it'll be good to be racing against the likes of top line drivers such as Darren [Turner] and Tomas [Enge] - reprising our ALMS battles from a few years ago.
"I've never been to South Africa or Argentina before so it'll not only be challenging to learn some new tracks again, but it'll also be a really good way to finish off my racing year."
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