FIA GT World Championship 2012

[rich07]

Originally Posted by Marcel ten Caat

Correct, built in Sant'Agata Bolognese

Since the first season of Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo ;-)

Wow. You learn something new everyday. Thanks Marcel.

I was under the impression that Reiter built the SuperTrofeo cars for some reason.

[kurski]

SRO announces Sam Smith as the new Head of Communications for the 2013 FIA GT World Series.

[Simmi]

Originally Posted by kurski

SRO announces Sam Smith as the new Head of Communications for the 2013 FIA GT World Series.

Good to see Sam land on his feet after everything that went down in Huntingdon.

[urdragon]

I expected more interesting news, after a month from last series news, two and a half months are remaining to the abu dhabi round and all is floating in the air, SRO's don't seem to learn about errors.

[MitchZ06]

It's taken you this long to notice that? :P

[NaBUru38]

What the International GT Open should to is to expand the grid to 50-60 cars, then split it with separate GT2 and GT3 races.

[GTKers]

they should do as SuperGT does... 2 separate starts on the same race with two safety cars, so they could have 2 races on the same race!!

[sukispeed]

Originally Posted by GTKers

they should do as SuperGT does... 2 separate starts on the same race with two safety cars, so they could have 2 races on the same race!!

All endurance racing should follow the example used by Super GT series when it comes to staring procedures and safety car interventions. For sprint series two safety cars should not be need based on how long the races are and how short the tracks are thy race on.
The GT one world and BES are all GT3 cars so there is no need for two safety cars. This would be useful in WEC, ALMS and the ELMS. As for the International GT Open there are two classes but the races are sprints and the time it takes to get all the cars organized with two safety cars would cut into time of race.

[NaBUru38]

Originally Posted by GTKers

they should do as SuperGT does... 2 separate starts on the same race with two safety cars, so they could have 2 races on the same race!!

I was referring to lapped cars. They disturb the battles in the main class.

[Nic_O]

It's now official, the Sébastien Loeb Racing enter the series with the McLaren and Sébastien Loeb himself.

[GT3.14]

Originally Posted by Nic_O

It's now official, the Sébastien Loeb Racing enter the series with the McLaren and Sébastien Loeb himself.

You beat me to it. Good news, should be great for generating publicity for the series, something SRO can't manage do to themselves.

[urdragon]

WoW !!

In addition:

"which will be run by his own Sebastien Loeb Racing team".

So seems minimum there will be two Mclaren Teams, Hexis and Sebastien Loeb Racing team.

[GTKers]

Seems that Hexis will move to ELMS and then wec gtE.

At least now we have one team, none interested yet in the championship?

[urdragon]

Originally Posted by GTKers

Seems that Hexis will move to ELMS and then wec gtE.

Sources?

The 12C GTE will take more than a Year to be competitive, unless this winter is announced and tested soon also.

[chunterer]

I'm just wondering if Loeb's team is in fact one of the existing teams, just renamed?

[MitchZ06]

Originally Posted by urdragon

Sources?

The 12C GTE will take more than a Year to be competitive, unless this winter is announced and tested soon also.

It has already been testing, competitive debut will be next year either ahead of Le Mans to be ready for Le Mans or in the races that follow in the WEC and ALMS.

Hexis are the favoured of the current McLaren teams and will be to McLaren what Manthey is to Porsche (next season).

Look for something more official in the coming months....

[urdragon]

Originally Posted by MitchZ06

Look for something more official in the coming months....

Yes, that's right about the development, maybe the 12C GTE could be ready.

I meant any source Hexis doing ELMS, by now winning the GT3 class at ELMS does not grant WEC GTE places, so they don't necessary win anything from doing ELMS.

[MitchZ06]

They're doing BES next season iirc, then WEC.

[urdragon]

Originally Posted by MitchZ06

They're doing BES next season iirc, then WEC.

Ratel said hexis was doing Sprints also, iirc, their costs have reduced so i would not discard both SRO champs before jumping to WEC. BES & Sprints are both even Smaller than 2011(2 & 1 round less ), that confirms a multi champ season is easier, and Hexis in 2011 did GT1 + 1 BES round, so budgets must be similar to that in 2011.

[Tzyghan]

Hexis comes with all GT World Series, which includes GT Sprints and Blancpain Endurances. About others - there was some issues, that they want to start in ELMS as a GTC - but noone agrees with that.

Originally Posted by chunterer

I'm just wondering if Loeb's team is in fact one of the existing teams, just renamed?

This year, Loeb raced at Paul Ricard with Von Ryan Racing help - but now it seems, that GT Sprint's team is his own, not existing one.

[FstrthnU]

http://www.motorsport.com/endurance/news/af-corse-s-amato-ferrari-reveals-busy-2013-program/
AF Corse confirms that they will not participate in the Blancpain Sprint Series

[Tzyghan]

Originally Posted by FstrthnU

http://www.motorsport.com/endurance/news/af-corse-s-amato-ferrari-reveals-busy-2013-program/
AF Corse confirms that they will not participate in the Blancpain Sprint Series

Results in 2012 FIA GT1 wasn't the best, so... Not shocked, but only a little bit surprised...

[lucky snake]

true is that in 2012 world GT af corse line-up was of only 1 platinum driver, but is also true that the 458 GT3 has been persecuted by the bop all season long. Is hard to make good results when your car is one of the heaviest and poor powerfull at the same time. Also in BES the bop gave almost 1300kg of min. weight but at least the car could use 2x55.5 restrictors! even if in my opinion the main problem was the mandatory min. rideheight (9cm on front and 12 on rear) that excluded the car to be competitive in pro class, but still good for pro-am.
Also last year af corse wasn't intersted in world gt1, but somehow ratel persuaded them to join.

[jasonjessica09]

I dont' see a Dubai 24 hour thread so I figured I'd ask it on here due to relevancy to it being a GT3 race..however not entirely. Because am I correct that I'm seeing a Corvette C6 and a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (both GTE cars) on the entry list?

[tux1234]

For the Dubai 24 hours you can race GTE cars against the GT3 cars. The C6 is actually an ex GT1 car converted to GTE level so that it could race in the top class of International GT Open. There will also be some Ferrari 458 GTE cars in the race as well

Also to add that Hexis wont race in the GT Sprint series, they will race in French GT instead due to financial restrictions.