Euro Open GT 2010

[pablocomics]

More news

-Phoenix Racing wll do the Euro open with one Audi R8, the drivers will be Marcel Tiemann and Jim Matthews

-Protonic Racing with a Ferrari F430 GT3 prepared by First Motorsport, the drivers will be Daniel Desbuères and Christian Kelders.

-Sofrev-ASP with two Ferrari 430, the first one with Gabriel Balthazard and Jean-Luc Beaubelique and the second with Mike Savary and Maurice Ricci.

-Luxuri with one Ferrari 430 in GTB class with Stéphane Ortelli and Jean-Philippe Dayraut

The EuroOpen will have one strong line-up

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Team	class	car	Drivers	status
AF Corse	SuperGT	Ferrari 430	Álvaro Barba, Pierre Kaffer	confirmed
AF Corse	SuperGT	Ferrari 430	Matt Griffin,Jack Gerber	confirmed
AT Racing	SuperGT	Ferrari 430	Alexander Talkanitsa, Alexander Talkanitsa Jr.	confirmed
Autorlando	SuperGT	Porsche 997 RSR	Richard Lietz, Gianluca Roda	confirmed
Autorlando	SuperGT	Porsche 997 RSR	TBA-TBA	confirmed
CRS Racing	SuperGT	Ferrari 430 GT	Mullen - Niarchos	confirmed
CRS Racing	SuperGT	Ferrari 430 GT	Hummel-Goodwin	confirmed
Edil Cris	SuperGT	Ferrari 430	Raffaele Giammaria, Enrico Toccacelo	confirmed
IMSA Performance	SuperGT	Porsche 997 RSR	Raymond Narac, Patrick Pilet	confirmed
JMB	SuperGT	Ferrari 430 GT2	TBA-TBA	confirmed
Kessel Racing	SuperGT	Ferrari 430 GT2	Philipp Peter and Michal Broniszewski	confirmed
Kessel Racing	SuperGT	Ferrari 430 GT2	TBA-TBA	likely
Megadrive	SuperGT	Ferrari 430 GT2	TBA-TBA	likely
Sunred	SuperGT	Sunred SR8	TBA-TBA	probable
Sunred	SuperGT	Sunred SR8	TBA-TBA	likely
Trottet Racing	SuperGT	Ferrari 430	TBA-TBA	probable
Villois Racing	SuperGT	Aston Martin Vantage GT2	TBA-TBA	probable
Autorlando	GT	Porsche 997 GT3-R	TBA-TBA	confirmed
Black Bull	GT	Lamborghini	TBA-TBA	likely
Brinkmann Motorsport	GT	Audi R8	Siebrand Dijkstra, Arjan van der Zwaan	confirmed
FR Motorsport	GT	Dodge Viper Coupe GT3	TBA-TBA	likely
Kessel Racing	GT	Ferrari 430	TBA-TBA	confirmed
Kessel Racing	GT	Ferrari 430	TBA-TBA	confirmed
Luxury	GT	Ferrari 430 GT3	Stéphane Ortelli and Jean-Philippe Dayraut	confirmed
Phoenix Racing	GT	Audi R8	Marcel Tiemann, Jim Matthews	confirmed
Protonic Racing	GT	Ferrari 430 GT3	Daniel Desbuères, Christian Kelders	confirmed
Red Racing TEAM(Jean-Claude Lagniez)	GT	Corvette Z06 GT3	TBA-TBA	likely
RPM	GT	Ford GT	Peter Bamford,Alexander Mortimer	confirmed
Sofrev-ASP	GT	Ferrari 430 GT3	Gabriel Balthazard, Jean-Luc Beaubelique	Confirmed
Sofrev-ASP	GT	Ferrari 430 GT3	Mike Savary, Maurice Ricci	Confirmed
Villois Racing	GT	Aston Martin DBRS9 GT3	TBA-TBA	confirmed
Villois Racing	GT	Aston Martin DBRS9 GT3	TBA-TBA	confirmed

That´s a very conservative list there are more likely cars

[911targa]

maybe Trackspeed will enter one of their 997GT3 RSRs,the one with green stripe was a 2009 spec and once confirmed for FIA GT2.i remember it used to be a fast car when Massen was onboard.
besides,im curious to know which team have bought the Black Swan Racing's 2010 spec 997 after they move to GTC?

[NightStalk3r]

Originally Posted by 911targa

maybe Trackspeed will enter one of their 997GT3 RSRs,the one with green stripe was a 2009 spec and once confirmed for FIA GT2.i remember it used to be a fast car when Massen was onboard.

Trackspeed's 2009 spec RSR is up for sale, and Maassen was often 3-4 seconds off the pace in it, even Sugden was quicker at the start of the season.

Originally Posted by 911targa

besides,im curious to know which team have bought the Black Swan Racing's 2010 spec 997 after they move to GTC?

Black Swan's RSR was Farnbacher Loles 2009 car, and is also up for sale, so at the moment no one has bought it.

[911targa]

Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Trackspeed's 2009 spec RSR is up for sale, and Maassen was often 3-4 seconds off the pace in it, even Sugden was quicker at the start of the season.


Black Swan's RSR was Farnbacher Loles 2009 car, and is also up for sale, so at the moment no one has bought it.

i see,thanks.it seems that there's no need of building new RSRs,just more engines.for teams want a RSR could just buy a newish car and gets a few updates. Weisaach factory is concentrate on building 911GT3 Rs and GT3 CUPs now.

[E46]

Villois Racing has an Aston Martin Vantage V8 confirmed to be driven by Lucas Guerrero and Max Wiser.

Source: www.sportmotores.es

[E46]

There are thirty cars confirmed for the first race at Valencia.

Source: www.sportmotores.es

[E46]

According SportMotores.es Aurora Racing Team will be with Álvaro Parente and Nelson Piquet Jr. in the last International GT Open meeting at Montmeló. Both will drive its Ferrari 430 GT used the last year in Spain.

[Yakuncha]

Originally Posted by E46

According SportMotores.es Aurora Racing Team will be with Álvaro Parente and Nelson Piquet Jr. in the last International GT Open meeting at Montmeló. Both will drive its Ferrari 430 GT used the last year in Spain.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82773

"I'm really happy to be taking on this new challenge and to get these invitations to race in good teams,"

TRANS: thank **** someone will still have me!!

[pablocomics]

The first race will have 51 cars in valencia (Euro Open+Spanish GT championship)
http://www.gtsport.es/resources/uplo...entry-list.pdf

The SuperGT and the GTS/GTlight will have separated races.

The spanish team Drivex will do the complete Open GT championship with Miguel Amaral and Miguel Angel De Castro as drivers

[cmk]

Originally Posted by Yakuncha

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82773

TRANS: thank **** someone will still have me!!

The key point from that link is that Piquet will be replacing Parente in the car for the final race of the season in October due to a conflict, so they will not be driving together.

Kind of funny to have already set up that replacement now in a series that where driver swaps in and out are hardly rare! We in sportscars could do without him, frankly.

Interesting to see a V8 Vantage in this series for Villois, the car has not exactly impressed when out of the hands of top pros - nothing against the drivers who have done well in their GTS Aston but they are not Rob Bell or Darren Turner!

[911targa]

the Super GT class looks really strong.
in my opinion,this year the winner of Super GT class should get a 2011 LM24 automatically entry after the FIA GT2 canceled.but this couldn't happen yet.Maybe the overall winner of 24h Spa could get one.

[fasteric]

I noticed that the Valencia round has GT4 cars (GTLite) entered from the Spanish GT Series. I was wondering if there has been any mention of Euro GTOpen adding a GT4 type class to the full schedule in the future. Euro GT offers much better events/tracks than FIA GT4.

[nasdriv87]

is there any live timing for this serie?!?!? or maybe a web tv?!?!?

thanks in advance!!!

[AndrewF31]

Funnily enough, a GT3 Ferrari 430 managed to get pole for the 1st race at Valencia. Qualifying was wet so maybe that had something to do with it.

http://www.gtsport.es/index.asp?pagi...c=337&race=336

They go on to say the wet track plus the lack of any handicaps/restrictions helped create this situation.

None of the top drivers seemed to take part in the qualifying: #8 AF Corse with Barba was 7th (no Kaffer); IMSA with Narac was 10th (no Pilet) and #2 Autorlando with Roda was 20th (no Lietz).
The GT3 Ferrari that won pole also has Stephane Ortelli driving.

[cmk]

I'm guessing that this was qualifying for the first race? I think when they do separate qualifying for the two races, the top drivers are usually seeded against each other in one of the sessions, right?

Dayraut is also pretty quick - he was typically the top-seeded driver in the Corvettes he raced in FFSA-GT for DKR.

[AndrewF31]

It was qualifying for the first race, yup.
I checked the Sporting Regs roughly and only found a reference that each driver only participates in one of the qualifying sessions, but couldn't find any criterias for selection.

You're right about Dayraut. I saw another article on the site also mentioning he won French Supertouring in 2001.

Race 1 was today apparently:
http://www.gtsport.es/index.asp?pagi...c=337&race=336

Barba and Kaffer won in the Ferrari.
They beat out a Spanish GT Portuguese pairing driving a Ferrari. Ferrari 1-2-3, with the best Porsche in 4th with Roda and Lietz. Pole car of Dayraut and Ortelli dropped to 10th and the IMSA Porsche retired 4 laps in.
Poor start for CRS. They were off the pace in qualifying and in the race. Wonder what's up with them.

[cmk]

Some of the issues for CRS may be down to never having run Dunlops before as far as I am aware. Have they tested much or at all for GT Open in the off-season?

[AndrewF31]

Their site says they tested at Nurburgring and Barcelona in March. Also says the car has slightly different specs than the LMS car but no details.
And perhaps it might be related to the Dunlops they use on the car compared to the much tested Michelins in LMS.

[cmk]

Misread timesheets, disregard!

[AndrewF31]

Ok, watching the review on MotorsTV and the 91 CRS of Chris Niarchos had a big shunt right at the beginning and retired from the race. Them and the #6 AF Corse Ferrari 'kissed" each other.

Let's see if they'll show what happened to IMSA who still appear on screen..... IMSA went off on the last corner into the gravel, and looked like it never came back.

GT3 Porsches and Ferraris were up at the top with the GT2 Ferraris and Porsche. Quite strange.

[AndrewF31]

And Barba and Kaffer won it again.
The Porsches were only there during the first half when Lietz and Pilet were driving against Kaffer but Narac and Roda were no match for Barba.
Even in the first part, Pilet and Lietz couldn't get away from Kaffer.

http://www.gtsport.es/index.asp?pagi...ina=4658&c=337

A late push by Portuguese driver Álvaro Parente in a Ferrari made Barba sweat but they were penalized for not abiding by the handicap waiting period during the pitstop.

It seems that based on the result of the first race, cars have to wait an extra time period (seconds) in the pits after refueling, tyres, driver change, to level competition. So, instead of applying weight penalties, GT Open, makes them wait in the pits. Interesting concept.
Nice racing, too bad not that many cars. I actually prefer when they have all classes at once. Race 2, at least at Valencia, had the Super GTs (GT2) in one race, and the rest in a separate race.

[cmk]

That is exactly how GT Open functions. DSC had an interview with Matt Griffin where he pointed out how that made the series better for all drivers but particularly for gentlemen; adding weight changes the entire feel of the car and even pros have to adjust their style whereas this lets an amateur familiarize themselves with a consistent car over the course of the season.

Barba and Kaffer are probably the best driver lineup in the field; Barba wasn't too shabby as an open-wheel driver and was the fast man in AF Corse's 2nd car in FIA last year. Kaffer needs no introduction.

[Speed-King]

Results from Qualifying at the Nürburgring

12 cars each in the two classes - not as impressive as I thought it would be...

[Dani Filth]

I see plenty of cars missing .. no Sunreds no marcos .. and no GTlights