2019 Blancpain GT World Endurance

[Bcarr6]

Apparently Mclarens Blancpain programme will be announced within a week

I think this is pretty much the large major effort yet to be announced, other than some of the Am Ferrari’s

Actually, nothing from attempto yet too

[Racing Harz]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

Actually, nothing from attempto yet too

Likely 2 Cars Blancpain, 1 GT Masters

[Bcarr6]

More news:

Villorba Corse move to Mercedes for Paul Ricard and Spa only-

Villorba Corse - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Mauro Calamia / Robert Pampanini / TBA (Partial Season)

Reno Racing look likely to enter a Honda NSX GT3 Evo in Blancpain

And AKKA ASP confirm another one of their Sprint lineups-

AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Nico Bastian / Thomas Neubauer

[Racing Harz]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

Reno Racing look likely to enter a Honda NSX GT3 Evo in Blancpain

According to JAS Motorsport: Blancpain Sprots Club.

[Bcarr6]

This is got to be the Mclaren factory programme surely-

- Racing Engineering studied a GT3 program that was to mix Blancpain GT Series and International GT Open. Finally, Alfonso de Orleand Borbon's team will provide technical support to a team running in Blancpain GT Series but not under its own name.

From Endurance Info French site

[rich07]

Originally Posted by Racing Harz

According to JAS Motorsport: Blancpain Sprots Club.

Now that’s a shame. Honda really need a Pro effort to show off the car at its best.

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by rich07

Now that’s a shame. Honda really need a Pro effort to show off the car at its best.

Sounds like this is by no means a pro effort.

The Button Rocket car may well be running Silver but I think with a high publicity name on board Honda will be seeing the opportunity to tie in and show more support in the long run.

Id guess thatd be the effort theid want to get behind if any, JB is a Honda driver / ambassador after all, and RJN are a pretty professional and quality team. Seems like this years effort is a precursor

[Bcarr6]

FFF Racing Team lineups announced

Endurance:
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Andrea Caldarelli / Marco Mapelli / Dennis Lind
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Phil Keen / Franck Perera / Giovanni Venturini
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Taylor Proto / Diego Menchaca / Michele Beretta


Sprint:
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Andrea Caldarelli / Marco Mapelli
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Phil Keen / Hiroshi Hamaguchi
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Taylor Proto / Diego Menchaca

[Bcarr6]

Test days for the Blancpain Endurance Cup and Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe start in 2 days time, so I expect we will see formal entry list very soon.

Heres how it looks like it stands-

Around capacity full season entries for the Sprint Cup, 25 with a capacity limit of 26.

And again a pretty huge 53 expected cars full season in Endurance, with an additional 4 cars already announced for Spa Only, plus the partial season including Paul Ricard and Spa for Villorba Corse. We can expect to see plenty more cars at Spa of course.

So both series look like they will have bigger grids this year, Endurance up by a few (announced 50 last year), and Sprint up pretty nicely with potentially a 25% increase on last years announced full season entry.

Endurance - 53-58 Cars

AF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Michael Meadows / Raffaele Marcello / Vincent Abril
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Jean-Luc Beaubelique / Mauro Ricci / Jim Pla
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*
Attempto Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA / TBA
Attempto Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA / TBA
Barwell Motorsport- Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Sandy Mitchell / TBA / TBA
Barwell Motorsport- Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA / TBA
Bentley Team M-Sport - Bentley Continental GT3*- Andy Soucek / Maxime Soulet / TBA
Bentley Team M-Sport - Bentley Continental GT3*- Steven Kane / Jules Gounon / Jordan Pepper
Bentley Team M-Sport - Bentley Continental GT3*- Lucas Ordonez / Alex Buncombe / Markus Palttala (Spa Only)
Bentley Team M-Sport - Bentley Continental GT3*- Seb Morris / Callum Macleod / Rodrigo Baptista (Spa Only)
Black Falcon - Mercedes AMG GT3 - Patrick Assenheimer / TBA / TBA
Black Falcon - Mercedes AMG GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA
Boutsen Ginion - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Claude-Yves Gosselin / TBA / TBA
Boutsen Ginion - BMW M6 GT3 - Karim Ojjeh / TBA / TBA
Daiko Lazarus Racing - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Fabrizio Crestani / Nicolas Pohler / Kris Richard
Dinamic Motorsport - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Klaus Bachler / Andrea Rizzoli / Sean Hudspeth
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Andrea Caldarelli / Marco Mapelli / Dennis Lind
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Phil Keen / Franck Perera / Giovanni Venturini
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Taylor Proto / Diego Menchaca / Michele Beretta
Garage 59 Racing - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Andrew Watson / Johnny Adam / TBA
Garage 59 Racing - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Chris Goodwin / Alexander West / TBA
GP Extreme - Porsche 911 GT3 R - TBA / TBA / TBA
Grasser GRT - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Mirko Bortolotti / Christian Engelhart / TBA
Grasser GRT - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Rolf Ineichen / TBA / TBA
Herbert Motorsport - Porsche 911 GT3 R - TBA / TBA / TBA
Jenson Team Rocket RJN - Honda NSX GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA / TBA
Kessel Racing - Ferrari 488 GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA
Mclaren - TBA (Mclaren)
Mclaren - TBA (Mclaren)
Ombra Racing - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA / TBA
Panis Barthez Competition - Lexus RC F GT3 - Fabien Barthez / TBA / TBA
Panis Barthez Competition - Lexus RC F GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA (Partial Season)
Phoenix Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Finlay Hutchinson / Kim-Luis Schramm / TBA
Phoenix Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Frederic Vervisch / Jean-Karl Vernay / TBA
Porsche TBC - Porsche 911 GT3 - Romain Dumas / Matieu Jaminet / Sven Muller
Rinaldi Racing - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Manuel Lauck / TBA / TBA
Rinaldi Racing - Ferrari 488 GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA
R-Motorsport - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Alex Lynn / Marvin Kirchhofer / Jake Dennis
R-Motorsport - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Matthieu Vaxiviere / Maxime Martin / Matt Parry
R-Motorsport - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Hugo De Sadeleer / Ricky Collard / Ferdinand Habsburg (Spa Only)
ROWE Racing - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Derk Werner / Denis Olsen / Matt Campbell
ROWE Racing - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Nick Tandy / Fred Makowiecki / Patrick Pilet (Spa Only)
Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Markus Winklehock / TBA / TBA
Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Christopher Haase / TBA / TBA
Schubert Motorsport - BMW M6 GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA
Strakka Racing - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Nick Leventis / Chris Buncombe / Lewis Williamson
SunEnergy1 Racing - Mercedes AMG GT3 - TBA / TBA / TBA
Target Racing - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA / TBA
Team Parker Racing - Bentley Continental GT3 - TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA / TBA
Tempesta Racing - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Chris Froggatt / Chris Buncombe / Jonathan Hui
TF Sport - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Ahmed Al-Harty / TBA / TBA
Villorba Corse - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Mauro Calamia / Robert Pampanini / TBA (Partial Season)


Sprint - 25-27 Cars

AF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - TBA / TBA
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Michael Meadows / Raffaele Marcello
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*- (Jean-Luc Beaubelique / Mauro Ricci) / Jim Pla
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3*- Nico Bastian / Thomas Neubauer
AKKA ASP - Mercedes AMG GT3- TBA / TBA
Black Falcon - Mercedes AMG GT3 - TBA / TBA
Black Falcon - Mercedes AMG GT3 - TBA / TBA
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Andrea Caldarelli / Marco Mapelli
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Phil Keen / Hiroshi Hamaguchi
FFF Racing Team - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Taylor Proto / Diego Menchaca
Grasser GRT - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Mirko Bortolotti / Christian Engelhart
Grasser GRT - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo - Rolf Ineichen / TBA
Panis Barthez Competition - Lexus RC F GT3 - Fabien Barthez / TBA
Panis Barthez Competition - Lexus RC F GT3 - TBA / TBA (Partial Season)
Phoenix Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Finlay Hutchinson / Kim-Luis Schramm
Phoenix Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Frederic Vervisch / Jean-Karl Vernay
Rinaldi Racing - Ferrari 488 GT3 - TBA / TBA
R-Motorsport - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Hugo De Saeleer / Aaro Vainio
R-Motorsport - Aston Martin Vantage GT3 - Ricky Collard / Marvin Kirchhofer
Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Markus Winklehock / TBA
Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Christopher Haase / TBA
Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - TBA / TBA
Schubert Motorsport - BMW M6 GT3 - TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA
Team WRT - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo*- TBA / TBA (possible)

[Bcarr6]

Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Markus Winklehock / Steven Palette
Santiloc Racing - Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo - Christopher Haase / Simon Gachet

[Anyopenroad]

Official entry list is 49 in Endurance and 24 in Sprint:

https://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/...-2019-campaign

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Anyopenroad

Official entry list is 49 in Endurance and 24 in Sprint:

https://www.blancpain-gt-series.com/...-2019-campaign

WRT have pulled back from original plans, and no Mclaren. Shame for both

Lexus are also no longer on the list for Sprint, Black Falcon & Grasser are both doing only one car instead of 2 each. Santeloc 2 cars instead of three.

No PRO BMW's anywhere to be seen!

[Bcarr6]

Overall ended up fairly disappointing grids, the endurance is actually smaller than last year even though they are boasting a stronger field.

Cant get my head around why Mclaren hired so many factory drivers if they arent running Blancpain

[ivozet]

I bought plane tickets for nothing to see at Monza.

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by ivozet

I bought plane tickets for nothing to see at Monza.

Expect to see more cars announced by monza

[tux]

12 Lamborghini Huracan
8 Audi R8 LMS
7 Ferrari 488
7 Mercedes AMG GT
5 Aston Martin Vantage
4 Porsche 911 GT3R
3 Bentley Continental
1 Acura NSX
1 Lexus RCF
1 BMW M6

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by tux

12 Lamborghini Huracan

8 Audi R8 LMS

7 Ferrari 488

7 Mercedes AMG GT

5 Aston Martin Vantage

4 Porsche 911 GT3R

3 Bentley Continental

1 Acura NSX

1 Lexus RCF

1 BMW M6

Those new Evo Lambo and Audi’s have been popular.

Aston seem to be doing the best out of the English Brands with their new spec cars




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[Willmaz223]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

Overall ended up fairly disappointing grids, the endurance is actually smaller than last year even though they are boasting a stronger field.

Cant get my head around why Mclaren hired so many factory drivers if they arent running Blancpain

Shame,Odd really,a new Mclaren GT3 but not in the biggest GT3 grid around.You'd have thought they wouod have given it a real go.

GT Open and British GT look a lot better even though they dont have the numbers but do have more variety which what I think GT racing is all about.

[Willmaz223]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

Those new Evo Lambo and Audi’s have been popular.

Aston seem to be doing the best out of the English Brands with their new spec cars




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Its again the Audi,MERC and Lambo trophy in the Sprint series.

[Anyopenroad]

Originally Posted by ivozet

I bought plane tickets for nothing to see at Monza.

That seems a little extreme. What is missing other than McLarens? 49 cars - probably over 50 by the time the event comes around - at Monza will still be awesome.

It's perhaps a sign of how spoiled we've become by this series if a 49-car, 10-make field feels underwhelming.

[Juntos]

High quality grids. Two of the most competitive racing series in the world. Face it!

Originally Posted by Willmaz223

GT Open and British GT look a lot better even though they dont have the numbers but do have more variety which what I think GT racing is all about.

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Originally Posted by ivozet

I bought plane tickets for nothing to see at Monza.

Must be hard to be a McLaren fanboy nowadays.

[Rodger Davies]

Originally Posted by Anyopenroad

It's perhaps a sign of how spoiled we've become by this series if a 49-car, 10-make field feels underwhelming.

That's a very good point. I was a little disappointed, mainly with the lesser variety in the Pro class with no Nissan, Jaguar or Lexus (or McLaren or Honda) but you are spot on with that assertion.

Does make me wonder why McLaren signed up a bunch of works GT drivers recently.

[rich07]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

Expect to see more cars announced by monza

Hopefully some Pro McLarens and a Nissan or two. Prolly more chance of former then latter..

[bentley speed 8]

If anybody wants to see more Nissans and Hondas, watching a few Super GT races this year would a good idea. Actually they even have a McLaren signed up.
It's a shame there are no manufacturers, but I can't complain much about a 50 car grid.

[ivozet]

Originally Posted by Anyopenroad

That seems a little extreme. What is missing other than McLarens? 49 cars - probably over 50 by the time the event comes around - at Monza will still be awesome.

The newest MC 720 is missing. Also Corvette C7, Jaguar, Nissan, Emil Frey racing and so on... Honda, Lexus BMW are for colour.
What actually Rathel is organizing? Lambo cup or high expenses Italian-German gt3 brands club?
Would be more interesting to visit some lakes and sights in Lombardy



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