British team joins forces with GP3 team Atech
GP3 Series organisers are pleased to announce that Atech Grand Prix and Bamboo Engineering have joined forces and will compete in GP3 for the 2013-2015 seasons under the name of the Silverstone Technology Park-based team. Founded in 2009, Bamboo Engineering have competed in the prestigious World Touring Car Championship. The newly-named team will run their GP3/13 cars for the first time on February 20-22 for the first official pre-season testing of year.
The Japanese carmaker pulled out of the sport after the 2008 season, amid the global financial crisis and the slump in new car sales. But Honda’s head of research and development Yoshiharu Yamamoto has told autocar.co.uk that the marque still sees F1 as an attractive platform. 
Last month, Stilo-equipped Sebastien Loeb won his sixth consecutive World Rally title for Citroen. Recently he was joined by SEAT driver Gabriele Tarquini, who became the oldest man to win a major FIA title by clinching the World Touring Car Championship at the age of 46. 
Having struggled on the streets of Pau last time, the SEAT diesels returned to form in Valencia to secure a lock-out of the front two rows for the second European event of the World Touring Car Championship season. 
Next weekend the FIA World Touring Car Championship will raise the curtain on their 2009 championship at the Brazilian round of the calendar held at the Curitiba circuit. 
Alongside his commitments with the SUNRED Engineering team in the World Touring Car Championship.