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Towards the end of 2020, Jordan Pepper received some bad news: the factory Bentley Motorsport team was pulling out of GT3 international competition. Essentially, this meant the 25-year-old South African – a race winner with Bentley in one of the top endurance race series in Europe – was out of a job. Today, Jordan says that a positive was this news came over a race weekend at Paul Ricard, so he was immediately able to start talking to different teams, to weigh up his options for 2021.

“One of the teams I talked to was the American K-Pax Racing outfit that operates out of Sonoma in Northern California. I had driven for them on occasion in 2020 as they were a Bentley customer team and the deal that unfolded was that they were opting to run a Lamborghini Huracán in the

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