International GT Open

Valker · 29 Mar 2006, 13:09 (Ref:1564169)

I guess there already was a thread somewhere but I just can't find it...

How ever, the series should start this weekend at Monza as WTCC's support race. Any idea who will drive and what? Maybe some teams from Italian GT and Cupra GT from Spanish GT?

Only few days to the first race and still no official (or unofficial) entry list - just like another WTCC support class International F3000 Masters... doesn't give very professional impression.

leglizone · 29 Mar 2006, 13:24 (Ref:1564178)

For International Open GT the news of the day is the presence of the "Racing Box" with 3 Viper GT3.
Other presence will be: Many Ferrari 430(for first event will be only one 430 for Playteam) ASM(1), RCA(3), Roger Marketing(1), Ayrton(1) and PlayTeam also with a 360.
4 Seat Cupra for team RSV, Sunred e Lozano. Two Mosler for Motor Competition and GTA.
Some Ferrari 360: RSV, Roger, Mastercard e Giudici and some other Porsche 911Gt3RSR

Dauer 962 · 29 Mar 2006, 14:24 (Ref:1564207)

Official website is gtsport.es, tough not very much information on it yet.

Valker · 30 Mar 2006, 10:32 (Ref:1565043)

15 GTA and 16 GTB cars. Pretty impressive.

leglizone · 30 Mar 2006, 18:46 (Ref:1565386)

Today walking in the pits I saw some of the new cars for this season.

There were team Marcos with an old and a new model, 3 Seat Cupra and 1 Seat Toledo. Confirmed the only Playteam Ferrari 430, There were no Viper Unfortunatly..but an Aston Martin for BMS is present.

Good news with the 2 brand new Lamborghini!

Some other competitors on my homepage

**FIRE** · 30 Mar 2006, 19:03 (Ref:1565404)

Quote:

Originally Posted by leglizone

There were team Marcos with an old and a new model,

The "old" is the powerful Marcos LM600 and the "new" is the Marcos Mantis, which isn't a new model.

leglizone · 30 Mar 2006, 19:16 (Ref:1565414)

Yes, sorry I mean newest respect the old L600, I didn't know its name Mantis

TheNewBob · 30 Mar 2006, 19:31 (Ref:1565424)

Ohh how I miss that LM600

Shame there seems to be no sign of this series coming to the UK. Running an LM600 for 45 mins is the only way they'd ever get me to go see WTCC this year!

ger80 · 30 Mar 2006, 19:58 (Ref:1565445)

live coverage on eurosport2, the revanche for FIA GT and Mr. Ratel?

mirkob · 30 Mar 2006, 21:37 (Ref:1565526)

Entry list from racingworld.it (forum),
first challenge in GT3 between DBRS9 and Viper Coupe:

Nº Concursante PILOTOS Nac. VEHICULO CATEGORIA CLASE

2 GTA Motor Lucas Guerrero E
José M. Pérez Aicart E Mosler MT900R GTA GT2 Nacional

4 Mastercar Massimo Monti IT
Pedro Bastos PT Ferrari 360 Modena GTA GT2 FIA

5 RSV Motorsport Peter Sundberg SE
Domingo Romero E Ferrari 360 Modena GTA GT2 FIA

6 RSV Motorsport Michel Ligonnet FR
Roland Severin DE Seat Cupra GT2 GTA GT2 Nacional

8 Puma Racing Team Manuel Sáez Merino E
Bernard Jourdain BE Porsche GT3 RSR GTA GT2 FIA

9 V�*ctor Fdez. Roca V�*ctor Fernández E
Luis Llobell E Seat Toledo GT GTA GT2 Nacional

10 Sun RED Manuel Giao PT
Ni Amorin PT Seat Cupra GT GTA GT2 Nacional

11 Sun RED Gines Vivancos E
Joan Vinyes AND Seat Cupra GT GTA GT2 Nacional

12 Marcos Racing Cor Euser NL
Miguel Cristovao PT Marcos LM600 GTA GT2 Nacional

17 Autorlando Sport Gianluca Roda IT
Johnny Mowlen GB Porsche GT3 RSR GTA GT2 FIA

18 BMS - Scuderia Italia Matteo Maluccelli IT
Marcelo Zani IT Porsche GT3 RSR GTA GT2 FIA

19 Renauer Motrsport Wolfgang Kaufmann DE
Luca Moro IT Porsche GT3 RSR GTA GT2 FIA

20 Edil Cris Racing Team Paolo Ruberti IT
Mateo Cressoni IT Ferrari 360 Modena GTC GTA GT2 FIA

21 Mik Corse Linos IT
Guiacomo Piccini IT Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 GTB GTS

22 Mik Corse Lorenzo Bantempelli IT
TBA Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 GTB GTS

24 BMS - Scuderia Italia Franco Groppi IT
Toni Seiler CH Aston Martin DBRS9 GTB GTS

26 Autorlando Sport Mario Sala IT
Giovanni Sada IT Porsche 996 Cup GTB GTS

27 Racing Box Zonca IT
Belicchi IT Dodge Viper Coupe GT3 GTB GTS

28 Racing Box Capellari IT
TBA Dodge Viper Coupe GT3 GTB GTS

29 Racing Box Perazzini IT
Livio IT Dodge Viper Coupe GT3 GTB GTS

31 Jacques Medard Jean Pierre Pla E
Jacques Medard FR Porsche 996 Cup GTB

33 Scuderia Giudici Gianni Giudici IT
Andrea Larini IT Ferrari 360 Challenge GTB

34 Scuderia Giudici Bruno Corrado IT
Giorgio Cipolli IT Ferrari 360 Challenge GTB

35 Scuderia Giudici TBA
TBA Ferrari 360 Challenge GTB

36 Playteam Italia Alessandro Pier Guidi IT
Michele Bartyan IT Ferrari 430 GT2 GTA GT2 FIA

37 PlayTeam Italia Gianluca Tedoldi IT
Claudio Rossetto IT Ferrari 360 Modena GTA GT2 FIA

39 Marcos Racing Luis Bermudez de Castro E
Sandra V/D Sloop NL Marcos Mantis GTB

40 Ruffier Racing James Ruffier FR
Francois Xavier FR Porsche 996 Cup GTB

41 Esc. Roger Racing Javier Diaz E
TBA Ferrari 430 Challenge GTB

42 Fernando Glez.-Camino Francesc Robert AND
Aleix Costa E Ferrari 430 Challenge GTB

43 Esc. Roger Racing Henk Van Zoest NL
Ángel Santos E Ferrari 360 Challenge GTB

leglizone · 31 Mar 2006, 17:31 (Ref:1566279)

First 2 session thi afternoon for the 2006 season of open gt.
Many different type of car on track...sorry but after the day on the track I don't know any times....

But I took pictures

gino · 31 Mar 2006, 19:15 (Ref:1566371)

Hello guys.

I ´m new at this forum.

Where ist the GPC Ferrari F430?

Dauer 962 · 31 Mar 2006, 19:57 (Ref:1566417)

Quote:

Originally Posted by gino

Where ist the GPC Ferrari F430?

I guess not yet delievered.

cmk · 31 Mar 2006, 23:28 (Ref:1566563)

I would think the first one that is would be on the road to Istanbul for the LMS rather than to International GTs. LMS seems a touch more important.

tux · 1 Apr 2006, 02:24 (Ref:1566632)

ive gotta say im glad eurosport has got this on tv it looks good

mirkob · 1 Apr 2006, 12:20 (Ref:1566912)

Qualify 1:

http://www.racingworld.it/fiagt/noti...?idtitolo=2172

. Pierguidi - Ferrari 430 GT2 GTA - 1'52"0
2. Ruberti - Ferrari 360 GT2 GTA - +0'135
3. Monti - Ferrari 360 GT2 GTA - +0'922
4. Sundberg - Ferrari360 GT2 GTA - +1'108
5. Cioci - Dodge Viper GT3 GTB - +1.352
6. Euser - Marcos LM600 GTA - +1.446
7. Belicchi - Dodge Viper GT3 GTB- +1.482
8. Kaufmann - Porsche GT3 RSR GTA- +2.068
9. Cappellari - Dodge Viper GT3 GTB - +2.082
10.Malucelli - Porsche GT3 RSR GTA - +2.178

As Maserati says, the Viper Coupe GT3 is too fast !!

ger80 · 1 Apr 2006, 14:03 (Ref:1566955)

somewhere timing & radio?

ger80 · 1 Apr 2006, 15:12 (Ref:1566975)

looks great, think kso did a good job to get GTs back to the wtcc weekends

**Dani Filth** · 1 Apr 2006, 15:13 (Ref:1566976)

it's on Eurosport 2 . so the live steaming from WTCC might pick it

and yes . those Viper Competition Coupe are very fast . curently 2nd and 3rd .. and raining

luke · 1 Apr 2006, 15:18 (Ref:1566978)

Rain.

ger80 · 1 Apr 2006, 15:18 (Ref:1566979)

lucky #37, a few secends later and someone crashed him

**Dani Filth** · 1 Apr 2006, 15:25 (Ref:1566982)

rain and cooling fluid .. oh yeah .

jondownunder · 1 Apr 2006, 16:13 (Ref:1567000)

Does anyone know where the other rounds will be held? I couldn't find a calendar on their website, and first heard about this series only when I saw it on the Eurosport schedule.

I'm going to WTCC at Brands this year (60% of my motivation being to see the F3000 International Masters) so is there any chance of International GT Open being on the bill too? It was quite an impressive grid at Monza.

jondownunder · 1 Apr 2006, 16:17 (Ref:1567004)

Sorry, ignore that post - I found the calendar after all:

Italian GT Open (April 1&2nd)
French GT Open (April 29&30th)
Portuguese GT Open (June 24&25th)
Turkish GT Open (September 23&24th)
Spanish GT Open (October 7&8th)
Cataluña GT Open (November 11&12th)

Seems it definitely won't be at Brands, as someone suggested earlier.

SALEEN S7R · 1 Apr 2006, 17:34 (Ref:1567041)

When I first heard about this series I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about the series prospects and the sort of calibre of drivers, teams and cars that the series would attract. However, having seen race 1 today I have to admit that the series is pretty good, almost as good in terms of quality as what you would see in say the British GT championship, I think a series like British GT would just edge it ever so slightly for me though because it has slightly better drivers, teams and cars. IMO. That said, if this series grows and attracts more quality teams and drivers it has potential to be quite a big professional series.

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