Portuguese rising star Henrique Chaves and Guatemala’s Andrés Saravia, who finished a runner-up in the International GT Open last year, are the first drivers nominated by Teo Martín Motorsport for the 2019 season. They will drive the new McLarens 720S acquired by the Spanish team; their respective team mates will be announced shortly.
Henrique Chaves is new to both the series and the team. The 21-year-old from Torres Vedras has been active in F.Renault 2.0 in 2015-17 before making a winning his debut race in F. Renault 3.5 at the 2017 Bahrain finale. In 2018, he switched to LMP2 in the ELMS.
Chaves commented: “I’m very excited to join Teo Martin Motorsport for the upcoming season. The International GT Open is a very competitive championship and I think the new McLaren 720s GT3 will be the proper weapon to face this new challenge in my career. It will be a tough season but after meeting with Mr. Teo Martin and realizing that his ambition to pursuit victories was the same as mine, I knew immediately that this was the project in which I wanted to be involved”.
Teo Martín Motorsport has also confirmed Andrés Saravia, who performed an excellent first full-season in the series and with the Spanish squad last year, finishing as vice-champion together with Fran Rueda and taking three races wins. The 28-year-old ‘Tico’ driver has stated: “I’m very happy to race again with Teo Martin Motorsport after a good 2018 season. The team is very professional and I’m sure we’ll give our best one more time to fight again for the title with the new McLaren 720S GT3″.
