As the representatives of the team SMP Racing, Vitaly Petrov will act on the command sportprototipov BR01 (the first two letters correspond to the initials of the owner of the company Boris Rotenberg).
In other races, such as, for example, the marathon «24 Hours of Daytona,» which is not included in the world championship standings, he will not act.
Recall, SMP Racing WEC acts not only in the classroom sportprototipov LMP2, and Touring cars LMGTE Am. In the season-2015 crew SMP Racing (Alex Basov, Victor Shaitar, Andrea Bertolini) in first place in its category.
In addition, the team belongs to this, another kind of record: SMP Racing — the first Russian team to perform at the «24 Hours of Le Mans» prototype of its own design.
As for Vitaly Petrov, his debut in the «Formula 1» was held in 2010, he played for the team Renault, his best result was a third place in the Australian Grand Prix 2011. Next year he joined the team Caterham (contract not renewed). Then — in the Touring Car Championship DTM with Mercedes (the contract is the same story as with Caterham). 2015 Petrov held as a «person of the brand» MB in Russia.
