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17 Jan 2007, 02:50 (Ref:1817139) | #1 | ||
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GT3 or Carrera Cup to support Aussie F1?
I remember reading an article about FIA GT3 supporting the Australian F1 race. But now on the official Australian F1 website, they have listed the Carrera Cup as the support race.
http://www.grandprix.com.au/default.aspx?s=on_track So the FIA GT3 race is not going to happen in Australia? |
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17 Jan 2007, 03:27 (Ref:1817143) | #2 | ||
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FIA GT3 is strictly European at the moment, I doubt they'd add a fly-away race in Australia.
Maybe you're confusing the fact that the cars are called Porsche 911 GT3 Cup? |
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17 Jan 2007, 06:06 (Ref:1817172) | #3 | ||
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A field of European FIA GT3 cars were set to race at the Australian GP this year as a support race, it was mentioned in Autosport with quotes from Stephane Ratel that everything was falling into place, before at the last minute something happened and the deal fell over (it was mentioned Bernie stepped in to stop it)
The Australian Carrera Cup Championship is a support event at the AGP this year, as they have been since 2003. |
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17 Jan 2007, 12:04 (Ref:1817415) | #6 | |
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I heard that it was a couple of hard hitting chaps that didn't want this race to happen...
With the lack of V8 supercars there, someone may have not wanted major publicity the GT series...but it could all be lies too...I'm only going on rumour and hearsay... Personally I like them both, but the lure of a good GT field would always win out... |
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17 Jan 2007, 16:13 (Ref:1817683) | #7 | ||
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F1 needs support races. It's expensive enough as it is, and whilst they're charging as much as they are and running pretty much sod all on the Sundays besides the main race, I have no desire to be anywhere near an F1 race these days.
It's kinda off-topic for a sportscar forum, but F1 could be such a good way of showing what each country has to offer motorsport-wise. For example, in Britain, get BTCC, BGT and F3 on the same bill as the GP. Shows everyone what the country's motorsport has to offer. Heck, it's gonna take up loads of paddock space, but it's a country's biggest motorsport event, and given the size of the gravel traps that the newer circuits have (i.e. the nearest grandstand being 3 miles away from the action), they ought to be equipped for this sorta thing anyway!? I hear Australia used to put on quite a few decent support races at it's F1 race - why has this stopped!? F1 is supposed to be a major event, not the rip-off processional farce that it currently is. Since sportscar racing is relatively unknown and underrated by the "masses", it would be great fun for a big crowd to see a GT series in action, particularly GT3 with it's really close racing. It would be publicity for the GT series, yet at the same time with F1 in it's current state, I'm quite glad that pukka GT car won't be gracing any F1 paddocks anytime soon. Rant over lol |
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