FF Corse is delighted to announce that Tim Mullen has joined the organisation as Sporting Team Manager.
The Northern Irishman joins the UK’s largest Ferrari race and track-day specialist as part of a restructured leadership team and will be primarily responsible for overseeing race programmes in the GT Cup and Ferrari Challenge Europe.
He joins Team Principal Mark McLoughlin – ex-Business Manager, McLaren GT – and Operational Team Manager Jamie Collins – formerly Carlin’s GP3 Team Manager – with company founder Anthony Cheshire remaining as Managing Director.
Tim is the latest in a series of top-level hires from Silverstone-based FF Corse aimed at strengthening a racing department that has won two Ferrari Challenge Europe Championship titles in the past three seasons and creating a team capable of competing at GT racing’s highest levels in the near future.
Tim brings the experience gained in a long and distinguished career as a professional racing driver, coach and team manager to the Silverstone-based operation.
During a 19-year stint behind the wheel, he claimed the British GT and Formula Vauxhall Junior titles, was a race winner in the International GT Open and was a podium finisher in both the Le Mans 24 Hours and the European Le Mans Series.
A renowned driver coach with CRS during the team’s successful title-winning spell in Formula Renault UK, Tim moved into team management with Garage 59 in 2016 and oversaw numerous victories in the International GT Open and, last year, several class wins in the Blancpain Endurance Cup too.
FF Corse’s race season begins with the opening round of the Ferrari Challenge Europe, at Sakhir, Bahrain, on February 15-17.
Tim Mullen, Sporting Team Manager, said: “I’m excited to join FF Corse as Sporting Team Manager at a time of expansion for this business. When the chance to link up with Mark McLoughlin – who I’ve worked with before – and support him in helping to enhance the already superb reputation the company has established with Ferrari owners in motorsport, I couldn’t say no. There’s a wealth of skill and experience here already and the plan is to really tap into that to help drive things forward and create a team capable of competing against the best internationally. I can’t wait to see how we move forward together.”
Mark McLoughlin, Team Principal, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Tim to the team at FF Corse. As a driver he was someone I knew and respected and as a colleague within manufacturer GT programmes, that respect only grew. He has both the skills and the experience to help drive our race programmes in GT Cup and Ferrari Challenge Europe forwards and to be the bedrock of what we’re creating for the future; a team capable of building on our successes in Ferrari Challenge Europe and becoming a main contender in International-level GT racing. We have several other new members of the team who are joining shortly, which shows how serious we are with this aim, and Tim will be at the centre of this.”