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Except for the front radiator great looking cars.
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Found another (older) article that talks a bit about potential entrants for next year:
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South Africa's having quite an upstart auto racing scene, haven't they? This series, the endurance series, the announced new formula series. How come?
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No seriously, the series looks pretty spectacular. Kinda like IMSA GTO if you ask me. I didn't know that even Hans-Joachim Stuck himself competed there, so the series had some sort of international recognition when Audi was willing to send one of its works drivers down there. |
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http://lebinc.co.za/dunlop-slicks-ty...16-gtc-series/
Some more information about the series' 2016 plans and a sketch of a GTC spec VW Jetta. No firm additional commitments from teams or manufacturers as of right now, tough. |
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I can understand the reason but a shame they will not use the big V8 engine. |
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VW with a two car "works" entry:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=935363233218373 Bit surprising, considering their recent troubles. Maybe the South African importer has less problems with Dieselgate than people in other markets...? |
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twitter.com/gtcautoracing
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They announced 2016 calendar on Facebook
The inaugural 7 Round, 2016 GTC Africa calendar, is as follows – - 4 June – Aldo Scribante Race Track, Port Elizabeth - 16 or 18 June - Kyalami (Thursday or Saturday) - 9 July - East London GP Circuit - 9 August - Zwartkops Raceway (Sasol Raceday - National Women’s Day - TUESDAY) - 24 September – Killarney Race Track, Cape Town - 22 October - Kyalami - 26 November - Zwartkops Raceway - Endurance Race (double championship points) |
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There was a bit of a surprise at the series' launch a few days ago:
Yup, that's a BMW. Looks like 8 GTC-cars (plus some production cars) for the first year and cars from VW, BMW and Audi. Kind of surprised there are no Fords, seeing how it's based on the MARC-cars, but the BMW is a nice surprise and actually looks quite a bit better than the Australian Focus and Mazda with their weird radiator opening at the front. |
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those cars look great.
any info about tv coverage for the races? |
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Nice looking cars.
And yes much better looking radiator. |
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I see they went WTCC style with the cooling duct.
Wish the V8 engine was still available. Would be neat to have two spec powerplant options. |
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Season Preview 2017 Looks like 8 cars in GTC (2 Audis, 4 BMWs, 2 VWs) and 8 for GTC2, i.e. the former production class. 6 Golfs and 2 Minis in there for now, but apparently there's a Honda on the way too. The top class might also see a mid-season addition as there is a new car in build by a privateer - going by some comments on their facebook site, that could be a Ford. Not sure where this series is going right now... 16 cars is the bare minimum for it to be considered even remotely credible, but they are managing this and might get up to 18 or more during the year. The elephant in the room is of course TCR, which was announced about one year after the plans for the GTC-series were made public... Maybe that would work as an in between class? |
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8 GTC cars last year...now 8 + 2. Not really an increase of cars.
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I still like the V8 powered original. It's larger predecessor, the NZ V8 Supertourer even more. An Audi and BMW Supertourer would be cool, but more expensive than GTC (around €20k more?). Maybe the S-A market is just too small for a GTC series like this. |
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It would be nice to have a world series where cars from national championships can compete in their local round, like WTCC did with S2000
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TCR? They had only 11 full season entries yet, even ignoring Macau they averaged 18 cars with a minimum 15 per round. That shows that it can work like that. They just need races where the championships are (Thailand being a great example).
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That I would definitely watch
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