Tiger Express Motorsports

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France TEM
Tem logo.png
Full name Tiger Express Motorsports
Owner/s France Yann Laprevotte
Base France Phalsbourg, France
Competitions
Superleague Team None
Début -
Supercup Team Tiger Express Motorsports
Début Australia 2012 Australian GP
Formula Challenge Team Tiger Express Motorsports
Début United Kingdom 2012 British GP
World Sport Series Team None
Début -
International Touring Cup Team None
Début -


Tiger Express Motorsports is a GPVWC constructor who are competing in the 2011 Masters Series season and are due to compete in the 2012 Supercup season and the 2012 Formula Challenge season.

Having been a long established name in Live for Speed, the French owned team launched an entry GPVWC with a driver lineup of Tom Parker, David Jundt and Erik Tveit.

Masters Series

2011 Masters Series

Tiger Express Motorsports made their GPVWC debut at the Norisring Masters with drivers Tom Parker, David Jundt and Erik Tveit. The 3 drivers qualified alongside each other in 14th, 15th and 16th in a good showing on their qualifying debut. In their racing debut, Erik Tveit had a horrible showing and ended up 31st whilst David Jundt and Tom Parker both managed top 10 in the feature race with David in 5th and Tom in 10th. In the sprint race, Erik did a fantastic job of leading the first few laps of the race before slipping down the order and finishing in 4th place. Tom also finished in the points in 15th even after a 10s penalty for a racing incident. David finished the sprint race in 22nd and out of the points. After the first race, Tiger Express Motorsports held 2nd in the championship which had exceeded all their expectations. At Goldenport Masters, David got the teams first top 10 qualifying result with a 10th place with Erik in 17th. Tom could not make the race and will not be able to compete in the rest of the season. In the feature race, David had finished 7th to have another good result in the series. Erik unfortunately retired from the race. In the sprint race, both Tiger Express drivers endured a nightmare race with David finishing a lap down with Erik getting 20s worth of penalties and almost a lap down.

David was the only TEM entrant at Zolder Masters and had an horrific feature race and once again finished a lap down. However, in the sprint race, David had an excellent start to lead going into turn 1 and led from the start to record Tiger Express Motorsports' first win in the event and in the GPVWC. At the next event at Istanbul, TEM hired Simon Cattell to replace Tom for the season and he had an immediate impact. Simon attained pole, fastest lap in both races and recorded a first in the feature and a second in the sprint race to give Tiger Express a very strong result. The other TEM entrant David qualified down in 21st and finished the feature in 32nd almost a lap down and in the sprint David finished 8th to give TEM their best race meeting results so far. As of Istanbul and heading into the season break, Tiger Express Motorsports lie in 4th place in the constructors table.

Tom Parker's BMW for Master Series 2011
David Jundt's BMW for Master Series 2011

GPVWC Supercup

2012 season

Tiger Express have been granted a spot into the 2012 Supercup season and the drivers for the season will be Tom Parker and 2010 Supercup runner up Chris Williamson. Tom and Chris will be looking to take Tiger Express to the top in their debut Supercup season with Tom in particular harbouring title ambitions after a very strong end to the 2011 season. The Supercup branch is ran by David Jundt.

GPVWC Formula Challenge

2012 season

Tiger Express have been given a place in the inaugural season of the Formula Challenge in the GPVWC. The team will be ran by Tom Parker and the drivers will be David Jundt and Janne Vaananen with David hoping to be challenging for the title with Tiger Express looking to go for the title.