RML appoints Le Mans winner.

The increasingly ambitious RML sportscar team has appointed Alastair MacQueen as race and development engineer to oversee on its Le Mans and Le Mans Endurance Series campaigns.

MacQueen will bring his extensive experience of prototype sportscars and endurance racing on RML's venerable MG Lola LMP2 machine, despite having begun his motorsport involvement with Eddie Jordan Racing. A successful partnership with Martin Brundle in F3 followed, before he received his first taste of sportscar racing as part of the successful TWR Jaguar operation in the late 1980s. As chief engineer, MacQueen helped the team to win the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1988 and take a 1-2 finish in 1990.

Further endurance racing success followed in 1997, when he engineered the Gulf McLaren GT car which won its class at the French classic, while British GT honours were also collected with the same car. Another Le Mans 1-2 was to follow in 2003, as MacQueen assumed the role of project manager with the Bentley programme.

"We are very pleased to have Alastair on board for our Le Mans and LMES programmes," team owner Ray Mallock commented, "From the Group Cs of the 1980s to the most recent Le Mans winning Bentley, Alastair has a wealth of experience which will strengthen our team and help us to achieve our sportscar objectives."