New BRT pilot James Courtney will take the former Haas team principal around the Adelaide Parklands as part of the festival, which boasts a range of historic Formula 1 and grand prix motorcycle machinery, Supercars of yesteryear, and more.
In the past 24 hours, though, the 2010 Supercars champion was clocking up miles at The Bend Motorsport Park, where team-mate Aaron Love and Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Ryan Wood were undertaking rookie test days.
Love was driving chassis BRT001, the very first Gen3 race car to ever turn a wheel, while Courtney was steering TR-27, a Tickford Racing-built car which was acquired by BRT as a spare.
BRT001 ran in its usual CoolDrive livery while TR-27 was sporting a Ford Performance design and #16, a reference to BRT Co-Principal John Blanchard’s birthday.
Courtney’s laps at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival will mark a reunion with Steiner, given he was a test driver at the Jaguar Racing F1 team when the Italian was team principal.
Jaguar was then owned by the Ford Motor Company while Steiner has also worked directly in a Blue Oval programme, in its World Rally Championship effort in the late-1990s and early-2000s.
Courtney is a two-time overall (Sunday race) winner of Supercars’ Adelaide 500, and of three races in the South Australian capital in total, on an abbreviated version of the F1 circuit.
Steiner is one of several F1 personalities who will attend this year’s Adelaide Motorsport Festival, alongside Valtteri Bottas, Liam Lawson, Damon Hill, and Sky Sports commentator David Croft.
The event runs from March 16-17, the weekend before the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix takes place at Albert Park, where Courtney will again be in action as part of the Supercars Melbourne SuperSprint.
Steiner will also be working that weekend, as a pundit for Network 10‘s free-to-air telecast of the event in Australia.
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