Westbrook will partner Audi DTM Champion Timo Scheider and Porsche Junior Marco Holzer in the Michelin shod Porsche 911 RSR.

“I am really looking forward to making my Le Mans debut with BMS,” said Westbrook who is currently competing the Le Mans Series with Prospeed Competition. “They have a great record at Le Mans, and together with Timo and Marco I think we stand a great chance of winning the biggest sports car race of the year.”

On Sunday 25 April 2010 Richard Westbrook will take part in the Virgin London Marathon with ten members of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) in support of the children’s cancer charity, CLIC Sargent.

Richard and his team including Andy Priaulx, Oliver Gavin, Darren Turner and Marino Franchitti are aiming to raise a total of £50,000 for the charity and need your help to help them reach their target.

To sponsor Richard please go to the official BRDC donations page on the Just Giving website at http://www.justgiving.com/BRDC-marathon-legends and give what you can.

Tucker started the race in extreme conditions - a heavy downpour - and Ryan Hunter-Reay finished the round-the-clock event in the No. 95 Crown Royal/NPN Level 5 Motorsports BMW Riley, giving the team its second-ever visit to the podium. Its first came at Watkins Glen International in the Crown Royal 200 in August 2009.

Level 5 Motorsports’ other car, the No. 55 Crown Royal/NPN BMW Riley co-driven by Tucker, came home ninth in DP competition. Tucker is the only driver in the illustrious history of the Rolex 24 At Daytona to race two different Daytona Prototypes during the endurance event.

The third-place finish at Daytona finish pleased Crown Royal executives.
“A podium finish in an epic sports car endurance race like the Rolex 24 at Daytona is certainly a moment worthy of toasting responsibly with Crown Royal,” said Rob Mason, Senior Brand Manager for Crown Royal. “We congratulate Scott Tucker and the entire team on a stellar performance to start the season.”

Only the second appearance for Level 5 Motorsports in Daytona Prototype competition, the Rolex 24 podium put the No. 95 team in third place overall in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series standings heading to Homestead-Miami Speedway in March.

Tucker, Christophe Bouchut, Hunter-Reay, Lucas Luhr and Richard Westbrook celebrated their podium finish in Victory Lane at Daytona International Speedway, the “World Center of Racing,” Sunday afternoon

“I am tremendously proud of the effort put forth by this Crown Royal/NPN Level 5 Motorsports team,” Tucker said. “I’ve really got to take my hat off to all of the guys — Ryan and all of the rest of the drivers did a fantastic job, as did the team and the organization. The competition here at Daytona is so tough. I’m really proud of everybody and all the work that they’ve done.”
Bouchut, Tucker’s regular teammate during the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series season, relished the podium finish for the Crown Royal/NPN Level 5 Motorsports team.

“This was certainly a very good start to the season for this team,” Bouchut said. “I’m very happy for the team.”

Lucas Luhr, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Scott Tucker completed the impressive line up of talent who led the race three times for 11 laps during the 24 hours in the No. 95 BMW Riley.

“If it weren’t for the seat belt mishap, we could have stayed on the lead lap. I’m not sure if we could have won the race, but we certainly didn’t disgrace ourselves. For me, I’m just unbelievably proud and happy and grateful to Scott Tucker and the team for giving me this chance. I loved every minute of it” said Westbrook.

In doing so, the Londoner added his most prestigious title yet to two Porsche Supercup crowns (won in 2006 and ’07) and the Carrera Cup GB (’04), and reclaimed the GT2 crown for Porsche after three successive years of Ferrari champions.

It was a bitter-sweet success for Westbrook, who before Zolder had been partnered all year by French ace Emmanuel Collard. But with the Westbrook/Collard line-up being regarded as ‘platinum’ by FIA GT organisers, and therefore subject to 50kg of ballast in addition to the 50kg of success ballast earned in previous races, it was decided to split the two drivers.

Westbrook would be joined in the ProSpeed Competition Porsche 997 GT3-RSR by young German Marco Holzer, with Collard moving over to the Brixia Racing car with Martin Ragginger. Westbrook and Collard would therefore race without the 50kg of platinum ballast in their bid to vanquish points leaders Gianmaria Bruni/Toni Vilander from Ferrari.

“I do wish I was celebrating with ‘Manu’,” said Westbrook. “He did 90 per cent of the races with me and it’s just as much his championship as it is mine. But we had to react to Ferrari bringing out their 2010 car in the previous round at Paul Ricard. My first thought was, ‘Oh no – I’ve got to fight Manu AND the Ferrari!’
Then my second was, ‘If one of us wins the title it’ll be terrible for both of us, because whoever wins will feel guilty.” Richard qualified an excellent third and charged after the leading Ferrari of Bruni in the race, before passing the Italian in a bold manoeuvre at the Villeneuve chicane: “My only thought was that I had to overtake him. He pulled out a one-second gap in three or four laps, but I reeled him in and outbraked him. It wasn’t easy and I had to surprise him, but I was pleased it was a clean move. Once I was committed on the inside he couldn’t do anything about it. “After that I pulled away and pushed on, and Marco did a very good job. He came into that high-pressure situation and didn’t make any mistakes, and I was delighted with him.”

Now Westbrook is revelling in his status as GT2 champion: “It’s great for ProSpeed, who have done brilliant work, and I’m proud that we did a perfect job at Zolder without a single mistake. We were up against the best GT2 teams in the world out there and it’s fantastic to have clinched it. The team have worked so hard to achieve this and Rudi, Luc, Frans and everyone else involved in Prospeed can be thoroughly proud of themselves.”