FIA GT FIA GT Finale - Zolder - 23, 24, 25 Oct.

The359 · 17 Oct 2009, 03:21 (Ref:2563058)

Next weekend it will be the last race of the FIA GT Championship under these rules and in a combined format, at least in the foreseeable future.

Entry List

Schedule

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FIA GT3, Belgian GT, and Belgian Touring Cars are support races for this weekend. It appears FIA GT3 and Belgian GT will actually be sharing the track for this event, simply to make room on the schedule since FIA GT3 wasn't scheduled to be here originally?

The359 · 17 Oct 2009, 03:28 (Ref:2563060)

FIA GT entry list looks good. K plus K return with two cars, Nissan returns as well but the Matech Ford wont be making an appearance. GT2 also has a surprise addition, second Trackspeed Porsche. Antonio Garcia also replaces Niarchos in the CRS Ferrari.

FIA GT3 on the other hand is a bit odd. Only 25 cars on the FIA's list, but 17 on the Belgian GT list. I assume some of the FIA GT3 loses are due to the carnage at Paul Ricard, but some other teams seem to be splitting amongst the series: Prospeed and Phoenix are both running one car in FIA GT3 and one car in Belgian GT. The only major addition is the Team Rhino's Leipert Ascari from ADAC GT on the FIA GT3 list, which marks the only appearance by an Ascari all season!

FIA GT3 entry

Belgian GT entry

NightStalk3r · 17 Oct 2009, 07:15 (Ref:2563102)

1 driver of the second Trackspeed Porsche(2009 Spec Car) is Joerg Bergmiester.

NightStalk3r · 17 Oct 2009, 09:41 (Ref:2563151)

And Sean Edwards in the #61 is an error as he is doing German Carrera Cup that weekend.

airbusA346 · 17 Oct 2009, 18:55 (Ref:2563326)

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

And Sean Edwards in the #61 is an error as he is doing German Carrera Cup that weekend.

Now has tba with Holzer for #61.

Tom.

NightStalk3r · 17 Oct 2009, 21:10 (Ref:2563389)

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Originally Posted by airbusA346

Now has tba with Holzer for #61.

Tom.

Darryl O Young has already confirmed to me he is doing it.

**Dani Filth** · 18 Oct 2009, 07:12 (Ref:2563527)

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

1 driver of the second Trackspeed Porsche(2009 Spec Car) is Joerg Bergmiester.

good on Joerg .. helping the ferrari boys

NightStalk3r · 18 Oct 2009, 10:24 (Ref:2563581)

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Originally Posted by Dani Filth

good on Joerg .. helping the ferrari boys

Joerg's only objective for the race is to make sure 50 finishes 2 places behind 60.

arakis · 18 Oct 2009, 12:25 (Ref:2563626)

and how is he going to do that...

NightStalk3r · 18 Oct 2009, 12:31 (Ref:2563631)

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Originally Posted by arakis

and how is he going to do that...

By getting infront of the 50 and making life as difficult as possible for them

**Dani Filth** · 18 Oct 2009, 14:22 (Ref:2563683)

if he gets in front of #50 .. he's gonna win the race

NightStalk3r · 18 Oct 2009, 14:44 (Ref:2563696)

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Originally Posted by Dani Filth

if he gets in front of #50 .. he's gonna win the race

I don't think Porsche would fund the second Trackspeed Porsche to prevent Prospeed from getting the title

Robbe · 18 Oct 2009, 19:50 (Ref:2563968)

Let's see who will be Jörg's teammate. If it's Sugden or even Lietz, the Trackspeed car will set the #50 under lots of pressure.

dxk1 · 18 Oct 2009, 21:11 (Ref:2564062)

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Joerg's only objective for the race is to make sure 50 finishes 2 places behind 60.

If that happens, they'll just DQ all the Porsches for the race and take care of that.

DK

Purist · 19 Oct 2009, 03:45 (Ref:2564234)

And Porsche could take it to the WMSC, and/or blacklist Ratel (or any affiliated organization) indefinitely. I bet Ferrari loses interest if they have nobody to fight, and thus Porsche succeeds at decimating GT2 on that side of the pond. Let's face it, not even Ferrari has been as consistent as Porsche in providing customer equipment, so snubbing them too hard WILL have severe consequences.

Corvette does NOT have the qunatity of factory drivers to fill enough cars to combat 8-12 top-line Ferraris in FIA GT2, AND another 4-6 in LMS. So they can't be counted on to take up the fight on their own. The BMWs aren't legal in Europe, apparently, and the Vertigo seems to be no more. That last one being unfortunate as it was just homologated for GT2 and certainly was showing to have a good chassis at least (bested all the GT2s in the wet at Bucharest two years ago). The Astons haven't shown consistently, and AMR is concentrated on LMP1 at present. And I don't see any of the other GT2s heading abroad either: Riley Corvette, Doran Ford GT, Panoz Esperante GTLM, etc.

Graham Goodwin · 19 Oct 2009, 06:13 (Ref:2564259)

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Originally Posted by Purist

The BMWs aren't legal in Europe, apparently.

Apparently Stephane ratel is attempting to do something about this

nobster · 19 Oct 2009, 10:57 (Ref:2564442)

Does anyone know with how much extra weight the Maserati of Bartels and Corvette of Hezemans/Kumpen will have to drive?

FWX · 19 Oct 2009, 16:59 (Ref:2564814)

Great to see KplusK back with both cars. Anybody know what's happened to the second Full Speed car (#13)? I can't even remember the last time that showed up. Lack of suitably budgeted drivers, I'm guessing...

ztnedman1 · 20 Oct 2009, 14:53 (Ref:2565487)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

By getting infront of the 50 and making life as difficult as possible for them

As we found out last week... DONT F*** WITH JORG

Quote:

Originally Posted by dxk1

If that happens, they'll just DQ all the Porsches for the race and take care of that.

DK

That about how I see it happening. I know I would not be surprised.

racerspics · 20 Oct 2009, 19:06 (Ref:2565637)

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Originally Posted by FWX

Great to see KplusK back with both cars. Anybody know what's happened to the second Full Speed car (#13)? I can't even remember the last time that showed up. Lack of suitably budgeted drivers, I'm guessing...

I don`t think, we see them. Karl Wendlinger says on his homepage, that his season is ended after the turbolence with his team.

Regards Ralf

MJ_N_09 · 20 Oct 2009, 23:06 (Ref:2565820)

Well gee, this thread's getting ugly already. I don't blame you guys, since the whole SRO organization is very shady, and may very well have favoritism.

The359 · 20 Oct 2009, 23:18 (Ref:2565829)

The SRO didn't do anything to the Porsches, the FIA did.

MJ_N_09 · 21 Oct 2009, 02:07 (Ref:2565902)

close enough.

HORNDAWG · 21 Oct 2009, 03:01 (Ref:2565925)

Mmmmm, not in this instance I think.

L.P.

cmk · 21 Oct 2009, 04:28 (Ref:2565943)

Concur. The whole 'FIA hates Porsche' thing is a little tinfoil hat anyway. Before the 4peat by AF Corse (Ferrari factory team), there was a 3peat by Freisinger Motorsport (Porsche factory team) followed by a championship for GruppeM (Porsche factory team). Food for thought.

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