Gillard is a British

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manufacturer founded by Tim Gillard to build

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for 100 cc and 125 cc karts. Gillard have won several European championships in partnership with the

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's racing team. The Gillard's most recent success was in the 2005

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where the Gillard-supported PDB team won with British driver

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, and Danish driver Michael Christensen won the European Junior Championship in the same year. Before that Carlo Van Dam and

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(both Dutch) won the European Formula A Championship in 2001 and 2004 respectively. In 2010 the Gillard-supported DFK racing team based in

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won the Rotax Eurochallenge with Joey Van Splunteren. 2007

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World Champion

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was an official driver in 1999 and finished second in the European Formula Super A Championship.

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