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27 Oct 2005, 10:41 (Ref:1444923) | #1 | ||
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Who's entered Dubai GT race?
Mentioned on the 2006 rumours thread is a Zakspeed Saleen entered for the Dubai GT race for November?
Does anyone know more about this event and is it similar to the couple of races we saw late last year in Dubai and Bahrain? I think i saw some of it on tv, David Brabham and Simonsen did well in a 550? Who's entered so far and with what? |
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27 Oct 2005, 10:58 (Ref:1444937) | #2 | ||
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Think there's some confusion here - There are Dubai and Bahrain FIA GT races due in November,
The Bahrain GT Festival was a different thing altogether and isn't being repeated this year. There is however going to be a 24 hour race in Dubai in January 2006 - No GT1 class for that one though |
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27 Oct 2005, 10:58 (Ref:1444938) | #3 | ||
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This year is a official FIAGT race, not a stand-alone event like last years. So expect a "common" entrylist.
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27 Oct 2005, 11:00 (Ref:1444941) | #4 | ||
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Ah right, thanks Graham, i hadn't realised that the November races were part of the FIA series.
24 hours of Dubai sounds interesting though - however i'm fan of the bigger cars so a race like that without GT1 won't be as appealing. |
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Can we expect Prodrive Aston's in these 2 events as it is surely a good market for them!!
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Apparently, Zakspeed was supposed to enter the final 2 rounds. But they have been very "hush hush" about the project, only very small details has come out (and some of those details were not able to be confirmed).. so im a little skeptical at this point about seeing them on the grid in Dubai..
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27 Oct 2005, 13:59 (Ref:1445105) | #7 | ||
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What's special about this outfit - ok i know Zakspeed's repuatation but what's the deal with this Saleen, is it much better than the old car?
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Zakspeed took delievery some two weeks ago of their Saleen and tested it last weekend on the Nurburgring. Now the car is it´s way to Dubai.
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Who'll be pedalling it?
Alzen and Kaufmann or something? |
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DSC reported Marcel Tiemann and Paolo Ruberti next to Uwe Alzen some time ago.
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Marcel Tiemann?! Where the heck has he been for the last few years?!!!
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27 Oct 2005, 15:27 (Ref:1445196) | #13 | ||
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I see, last i knew was when he was a DTM race driver or driving their champcar a few years back!
He's s decent driver if memory serves me correctly? |
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His family has very goods relation to Zakspeed, his father raced sucuessful some years agao in Zakspeed cars at the Nordschleife. |
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28 Oct 2005, 01:57 (Ref:1445623) | #16 | ||
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I remember that Dubai's own GT team was supposed to debut at Dubai FIA GT with two Aston Martins.
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What actually did happen to that team then ? They even had drivers mentioned last year , Pescatori !!!
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They made a joint venture with Aston team of Brundle/Blundell/Price for the last races of this year
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about real teams and cars ( :-) ) ,
second car for GPC (F575) and maybe for Labre (F550) ! |
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Good news for the championship, bad news for the coverage. With Eurosports love for Bouchut and Ortelli they'll probably move in with the Cirtek boys
Will be awesome to see them both in action though, and it'll be interesting where the russian boys stand without Bouchut. |
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