[FIA GT] GT3 European Championship 2011

[Marcel ten Caat]

Those are old images. Website hasn't been updated for some months.

The car has been updated - with the roll-out at Zolder a few weeks ago showing that.

[NelisB]

Originally Posted by Stranger

Those are old images. Website hasn't been updated for some months.

The car has been updated - with the roll-out at Zolder a few weeks ago showing that.

In the Youtube movie someone claims that Fastforward have the rights to build the GT3 for that championship and such. How does that go with the Reiter team developing a similar Camaro?

[Marcel ten Caat]

The FIA has not announced the Camaro GT3 homologation yet. Until then they can claim whatever they want, but as long as the paperwork is not finalized...

And the question is, are they the same Camaro version or is one let's say Camaro SS 2010 and the other Camaro SS 2011 ;-)

[Tim the Grey]

Or even 2012 MY?

[joeb]

There are rumblings of the demise of the FIA GT3 European series on twitter:

@dsceditor
Graham Goodwin
Is it goodbye to FIA GT3 European Championship - Autosport think so and I agree

[Dead-Eye]

I suppose between Blancpain and the World Championship running the same cars, there's not much room left for a European "sprint" GT3 series.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Dead-Eye

I suppose between Blancpain and the World Championship running the same cars, there's not much room left for a European "sprint" GT3 series.

Plus add in all the national series running the same cars and the GT3 European series seems a bit unnecessary.

[Mt. Lynx]

Maybe ditch the European GT3 championship, and go for Ratels other idea - Scramble together all the winners from all different GT3 championships - ADAC, FFSA, Aussie GT, BES, (Britcar... hmmm), Belcar, Brazil GT, Spanish GT, Italian GT and so on - for a season finale.
I know that would take some effort, especially since some of these national series have waivers for special cars, like Ginetta, Mosler, Sunred and others, and that there would be issues with tyres. Would it be feasible?
IMO yes, just BoP all participants before the race, and let them run their cars with whatever rubber they are accustomed to. It should also be run somewhere none of the participants have raced during the season.

[rich07]

Originally Posted by Dead-Eye

I suppose between Blancpain and the World Championship running the same cars, there's not much room left for a European "sprint" GT3 series.

Well with World GT you have a series for pros and GT3 for gentlemen drivers who dont want to do the longer races that Blancpain offers so I can see a niche for a European GT3 sprint series.

That said though, all this talk of the two series being combined doesnt give off positive vibes that European GT3 will have a particularly strong entrylist next year especially when you have GT3 as the World GT class.

AF Corse is a shoe in to go to World GT, thats just one team you probably wont see in Euro GT3 next year.

Was going to ask about Schubert keeping the NFS sponsorship-would the GT3 for World GT be enough to bring them up to World GT? Shame Marc VDS probably wont with their Z4s.

[NelisB]

double

[NelisB]

Originally Posted by Stranger

The FIA has not announced the Camaro GT3 homologation yet. Until then they can claim whatever they want, but as long as the paperwork is not finalized...

And the question is, are they the same Camaro version or is one let's say Camaro SS 2010 and the other Camaro SS 2011 ;-)

Just got a tweet from Peter Kox. He says the Camaro GT3 is a commercial project for Reiter. They are not going to run it themselves. They will still run the Gallardo in ADAC and Blancpain Endurance series. For the dutch reading people: Link to the Tweet

[jaguarista]

Sorry guys, i have a question: do you have news about the team Volumex Motorsport (ex Apex Motorsport) and his project with the Jaguar XKR-S GT3?

http://www.volumexmotorsport.com/intro.html

[Tim the Grey]

Looks like they bought everything off Apex, and then realised just what a mountain there was to climb...
First time I saw the Apex Jags, they were not far off the pace, with room to improve. The following year, they looked WAY more aggresive, and were 3 seconds a lap slower?
Now they are gone.
Perhaps they may have gone on to be bigger, and better, if only that plane hadn't crashed...