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Walkinshaw Racing signs BTCC winning designer

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Top British Touring Car Championship engineer Carl Faux is to join Walkinshaw Racing when he makes his impending move to the Australia Supercars Championship.

Faux, who designed the Subaru Levorg that carried Ash Sutton to the 2017 title, has now departed Team BMR after three seasons that also saw him help the the squad win the Teams’ Championship last year.

Having previously designed the MG run by Triple Eight, the now former BMR technical director will take up a role as technical consultant with Walkinshaw prior to the Gold Coast 600 later this month.

Faux is present with this team at Bathurst this weekend as a guest.

“He’s come straight from BTCC, and he’s just won the championship there so he comes with a wealth of experience,” Walkinshaw Racing general manager Mathew Nilsson said.

“We’ve been open about the areas where we need to improve the business and the opportunity with Carl came up. He’s been good to deal with.

“It’s very early stages. We’ll give him a chance to review things, and then we’ll bring him up to speed to where we think our weaknesses are. It’s a fresh set of eyes.

“He’ll be working in the engineering department, he’ll help lead us and give us ideas of how to improve that side of the business.”

Walkinshaw will be renamed as Walkinshaw Andretti United next season after a buy in involving Andretti Autosport’s Zak Brown earlier this week.