FIA GT Sprint Series 2013 (SRO GT3)

[urdragon]

Website:

http://gt1world.com/

Streaming

http://www.youtube.com/user/gt1world

http://www.ustream.tv/GTWorld

Live timing

http://static.sportresult.com/federa...ia/app/portal/

Blancpain APP (Iphone)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blan...gt/id526712714

Originally Posted by Speed-King

Speedweek's Oliver Runschke via Twitter:

More at GT1 website:

http://gt1world.com/news/details/fia...is-go-for-2013

OFFICIAL

Ten two-car teams have already confirmed their intention to participate in the new series, making the target of 24 entries attainable for the 2013 season.

AUDI R8 LMS ULTRA

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT from Belgium.

Sunred from Spain most likely with Audi.

Phoenix Racing from German (N24H,S24H)

Novadriver from Portugal with Audi.

BMW Z4 GT3

Vita4One Racing from Germany with BMW

Lamborghini LP600+

Reiter Engineering from Germany

Mercedes SLS AMG GT3

HDC from the Czech Republic

PORSCHE 911 GT3

Prospeed Competition from Belgium

FORD GT GT3

Rodrive Competições from Portugal is working on a programme to run two Fords in partnership with Lambda Performance.

Mclaren MP412C - GT3

World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb will be racing with his own Sebastien Loeb Racing Team from France.

NOT CLOSED:

Antonio Hermann’s BMW Team Brazil has also expressed a strong intention to race in the FIA GT Series this season with a stellar line up of Brazilian drivers.

SELECTED ROUND ENTRIES

"A number of experienced French teams, namely Hexis Racing with McLaren, Sofrev Auto Sport with Ferrari and Sainteloc Racing with Audi, have already confirmed they will take advantage of the opportunity offered for race-by-race entries to be on the grid for the opening round, at Nogaro on Easter-weekend.
A host of other teams are also working on finalising a programme for the 2013 season and they will be announced in the coming weeks."

FINAL ENTRY LIST

1 st February.


CALENDAR

The calendar for the 2013 FIA GT Series is as follows:
1st April: Nogaro, France
21st April: Zolder, Belgium
14th July: Zandvoort, Netherlands
18th August: Slovakia Ring, Slovakia
13th October: Navarra, Spain
16th or 23rd November: Middle East (date and location to be confirmed)


Navarra seems to sign back, FORD GT BACK AGAAAAAAIN !!! and no Ferrari neither vantage V12 entries by now!!!

[urdragon]

According to EI Parente will Join Loeb in probably the most powerful pair in the series if WRT doesn't do any special line up.

http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...cus-15210.html

[Larsen]

No UK round?

[KingKenny04]

No North or South American rounds? Only one Asian round?

[urdragon]

More flyaway rounds will increase costs, this is only a semintrnational sprints, by now there are two options, withdraw or this, for Ratels Business is better to go on to not affect on BES.

The thruth is UK should have a round but maybe those figures of crowdness didn't make happy Ratel:

http://www.endurance-info.com/versio...nce-14664.html

Silverstone was the emptier Round.

[GT3.14]

More schedule changes...many Audis. Perhaps they should name it the Northern Hemisphere Improvised Audi R8 Championship.

[urdragon]

Originally Posted by GT3.14

More schedule changes...many Audis. Perhaps they should name it the Northern Hemisphere Improvised Audi R8 Championship.

The R8 supertrofeo or the R8 Corsa clienti.

[Simmi]

Amazing that year on year these teams keep re-appearing. You have to hand it to Ratel when it comes to his tenacity. I suppose as always the question is how many will still be there by mid-season?

[Beetle]

Interesting... nice to see a fairly large entry count.

[pach233]

Unbelievably, I think this is a step in the right direction. Done away with the rubbish two car per manufacturer rule and allows race by race entries. None of the too ambitious trips to China, Brazil and Argentina. Start small, build something stable and go from there.

Still not convinced on the international one hour sprint format with pros for GT3. Should just focus on having a strong pro category of BES which gives gentlemen drivers more seat time and their own class victories.

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by pach233

Unbelievably, I think this is a step in the right direction. Done away with the rubbish two car per manufacturer rule and allows race by race entries. None of the too ambitious trips to China, Brazil and Argentina. Start small, build something stable and go from there.

Still not convinced on the international one hour sprint format with pros for GT3. Should just focus on having a strong pro category of BES which gives gentlemen drivers more seat time and their own class victories.

I think he had the right idea when combining BES and Sprint into one shared championship, unfortunately that idea seems to have fallen by the wayside now. My ideal series would be a 9 round series with three three hour races, one 1000k race, the 24h at Spa and four sprint weekends. Makes for a nice and diverse schedule and there's something in it everyone can enjoy. If you have to, create a special award for the best endurance teams.

[urdragon]

I think 9 rounds today is too much, AM's don't have so much time for racing cause they are AM's and mostly will have familly and business. In terms of pro, only the WEC is powerfull enough (And i doubt at current international level) to host 9 rounds, it's too expensive unless we run GT4's... Or maybe a car per team.

[werner]

How about making the world championship combined with other GT3-championships? The 5 BES-rounds, combined with 2 rounds in South America with the Brazilean championship, 1 in San Luis and 1 in Curitiba or at Interlagos.
And At the end of the season join the Australian championship in Surfers Paradise and/or the Macau GT-cup.

[Juntos]

Did I read well? Is SUNRED racing a pair of Audi R8's? The most interesting thing about them is the persistence with which it sticks to their job.

[urdragon]

From 1 single ford GT to a pair of R8 LMS minimum, and that team is Spanish and their principal sponsor was GT Club a Supercar share and second hand sale (458,lp670, i saw a 12C GT3 in their store) club which should have reduced sponsorship as big spanish funds have left the country in last year. Unbelievable.

[morningview66]

Looks like it might finally be a step in the right direction.

Bringing it more in line with the Blancpain Endurance Series seems like the right idea.
Firstly stopping trying to pretend it is a pro series and travelling to these far away countries when all the teams are based in Europe will help hugely with finding sponsors and travel costs.

Allowing teams to run whichever cars they want and allowing round by round entries is also in my opinion a great idea.

So hopefully it will turn out like a sprint version of the Blancpain series. Although attracting gentlemen drivers compared to Blancpain could be difficult with only 2 available seats, not as much race time and a longer calender.

[NaBUru38]

Originally Posted by pach233

Still not convinced on the international one hour sprint format with pros for GT3. Should just focus on having a strong pro category of BES which gives gentlemen drivers more seat time and their own class victories.

Originally Posted by Speed-King

My ideal series would be a 9 round series with three three hour races, one 1000k race, the 24h at Spa and four sprint weekends. Makes for a nice and diverse schedule and there's something in it everyone can enjoy.

I think Ratel could try to build a strong all-pro championship. It could be splitting the Blancpain GT Endurance Series in two, or remove the pro teams to this new sprint championship, plus the 24 Hours of Spa and 24 Hours of Nürburgring.

[Subaru_WRX_STi]

FIA GT Series vs. International GT Open. Who had the best package?

[urdragon]

Too much i+d effort on their new logo, ACO and Pareja improve this:




Low cost, like current spanish goverment administration.

[rich07]

Bring back the old FIA GT logo from the LG Super Racing Weekend days

It's old school but easily recognizable.

[Coopz21 x]

I'm hoping the McLarens do well this year!

[AndrewF31]

Looking forward to seeing Parente and Loeb together. Bang up combo as long as the McLaren behaves itself.

Whether this one looks better than GT Open is year depends on who else is driving here. Plus, getting in a Ferrari and a few more Porsche would help. If they get those, don't think GT Open can compete.

Ratel took a while to understand in today's age he couldn't limit the grid to 2 per manufacturer. Probably he knew without it he'd have an overload of Audis like he does now!

[JackN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ebnq9RbyXg

Interviewed Ratel at Autosport. He is very honest about the failure of GT1, and the potential of FIA GT.

[pach233]

Really like Ratel's comments in this interview. He seems to have really "gotten it" with the failure of GT1 World. While I have criticized in the past, I will be rooting for them to succeed. Its good that he has ambitions of a pro series and its good that he seems to have the patience to build up to it slowly.

[NaBUru38]

Is that a G?

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Neither am I. How about these?