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13 Oct 2011, 16:31 (Ref:2970583) | #1 | |
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Blancpain endurance series 2012
I thought it was time for a thread for the rumors for next years BES. Seeing how successful this years championship was I am looking forward to next year and I expect new entries and drivers, maybe even new brands.
Calender April - Monza, Italy June - Silverstone, Great Britain July - Paul Ricard, France July - Total 24 Hours of Spa, Belgium September - Germany (circuit TBC but likely Hockenheim or Nurburgring) October - Barcelona, Spain (No dates to avoid clashes with world gt, gt3, adac gt masters etc) |
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I hope alot of the new McLaren MP4-12C teams are in this as I will be definitely watching again in 2012! Roll on Spa24 2012
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the car is good enough if we talk about qualifying lap but the CRS team and mclaren really need to work on engine reliability
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At present perhaps one of my personal favourite series....spa 24hr is already on my calender for next year....just like everything about it! Love the Marc vds Z4!
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14 Oct 2011, 08:49 (Ref:2970914) | #7 | |
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weight loss and some aero new parts! by the way it is not a new because WRT is going to take part to the world gt so the car had to be updated however.
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7 Nov 2011, 16:21 (Ref:2982789) | #9 | |
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Intresting article on E-I about next year about possible entrants.
also seems to confirm the german round at Hockenheim (I would of prefered Nurburgring) http://translate.google.com/translat...ance-8657.html |
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7 Nov 2011, 17:22 (Ref:2982815) | #10 | |
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With thanks to the newly published British F3 calender for 2012 we now know one more date:
14/15 April - Monza 2/3 June - Silverstone 30/1 July - Paul Ricard 28/29 July - Spa TBA September - Hockenheim TBA October or November - Barcelona Monza coincides with the opening round of the French GT Tour @ Spa (another SRO ´affiliated´ series?), while Silverstone is gonna clash with the Le Mans 24 test day. That will undoubtedly dissapointment a couple of (French) teams. Dates still provisional though. |
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7 Nov 2011, 17:28 (Ref:2982817) | #11 | |
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DKR (that ran 1 of the 2 Corvettes in the GT1 WC) is also aiming to participate with 2 cars - they´ve tested 2 different brands but have still to make a choice.
From http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...ance-8694.html |
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7 Nov 2011, 17:50 (Ref:2982823) | #12 | |
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Trackspeed has announced they will be racing in Blancpain next season in both the pro and pro-am category. Seems unlikely that Richard Westbrook will still be driving for them since JRM has a GT3 car now.
http://www.trackspeed.net/index.php?...ia-gt&Itemid=8 |
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7 Nov 2011, 21:19 (Ref:2982910) | #13 | ||
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Not necessarily - it was said at the 2012 press conference at Silverstone that the BES would have the same support package (Super Trofeo,Blancpain GT Revival and Supercar club) at each round and all rounds would be 2 day events also, so dont jump in just yet, wait til its confirmed
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7 Nov 2011, 21:35 (Ref:2982914) | #14 | |
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I think we need a list of confirmed entries
GT3 1x Marc vds bmw z4 2x Trackspeed porsche 1/2 Sport garage ferrari 458 1/2x DRK ??? 1x Mulhner porsche 2x Gulf mclaren 2x asm mclaren 2x Boutsen mclaren 2x SOFREV ferrari 458 1x Autorlando sport porsche Plus we may have more teams if world gt fails |
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7 Nov 2011, 22:00 (Ref:2982925) | #15 | ||
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well this is the announced calender for the Lambo Trofeo championship which is meant to be a support (along with the 20 year old club porsches that will show up for the GT90 take 2 series & the 2 hour trackday session for supercar owning club members).
April/May, Italy which ties in with the above F3 Monza date 3 June Silverstone, UK interestingly, Brit GT has announced their calender and are at 'Stone in September 1 July Paul Ricard HTTT, France 29 July Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium 16/23 September Hockenheim/Nürburgring, Germany ADAC German GT is at Nürburgring on 16th September, so that's a giveaway too October/November Barcelona, Spain November 11th is the GT Open's date at circuit de Catalunya and yes, that is the same 3rd of June that is the Le Mans test weekend... Last edited by courageous; 7 Nov 2011 at 22:07. |
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SRO and GT Sport together? No way, corageous.
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Apparently there's a new Evo-version of the GT3-Audi dubbed R8LMS ultra:
http://translate.google.de/translate...tart-5029.html Good news is that older cars can be brought to the new specs and don't become obsolete, not sure if I like the "hillclimb special"-look of it, though... |
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And here in proper English: http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...evises-gt3-r8/
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Anyway, we all saw how good the Audi was in Spa, so this car will win quite a few races, I presume. |
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And really, with the RSR getting 16% more expensive over the course of 1 year, 25% over 4 years doesn't sound so bad...
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Aaron Scott and Craig Wilkins entering a viper in pro-am next year
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The calendar is out!
Round 1 April 14th – 15th Monza, Italy Round 2 June 2nd – 3rd Silverstone, UK Round 3 June 29th – July 1st Paul Ricard, France Round 4 July 25th – 29th Total 24 Hours of Spa, Belgium Round 5 September 22nd – 23rd Nürburgring, Germany Round 6 October TBC http://www.blancpain-endurance-serie...em.php?key=217 |
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If there are actually that many entries, they should consider splitting the races in two, one for pros and another one for amateurs. Or make the latter run at the current GT3 / GT4 sprint championships.
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