Lotus will become the tenth different manufacturer on this year’s GT4 European Series powered by RAFA Racing Club grid with PB Racing confirming its new Emira GT4 for the full season.
Stefano D'Aste and Alberto Naska will share the team’s yellow-liveried Emira, competing in the Pro-Am category. The team will race as the official entry of the Lotus brand.
Italian racer D’Aste boasts huge experience of competing in both GT and touring car racing. He completed in the World Touring Car Championship for ten seasons, nine with BMW machinery and his final year in a Chevrolet. He made his GT4 European Cup debut back in 2011 as an official driver of the Lotus Evora GT4, finishing third in the points. In recent years he has competed in the 24H Series. D’Aste founded the PB Racing team as an official Lotus workshop in 1998.
Naska is a social media personality and the reigning Lotus Cup Italy champion. Prior to that he was a multiple race-winner in the NASCAR Euro Series, finishing second in the 2022 championship standings in a Chevrolet Camaro. He also has experience of racing Formula 4, Legends and MitJet cars. While he has also competed in GT4 Italy before, this will be his first full season of European GT4 competition.
About PB Racing
PB Racing was founded in 1998 as an official Lotus Cars workshop in Lallio, a town in the province of Bergamo. 20 years of experience and work dedicated exclusively to the prestigious Lotus Cars brand gives PB Racing a deep knowledge of the cars.
The PB Racing team has its own Lotus competition cars on which the latest innovations are designed and tested and then produced for the market.
PB Racing is the organiser of the Lotus Cup Italia, the championship dedicated to the brand from Hethel where the Lotus Elise Cup PB-R is used, a car based on the Elise 220 and developed for competitions by PB Racing and Hexathron Racing Systems.