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4 Jun 2011, 13:45
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FIA GT World Championship 2012
Talk about developments, this seems like a good way of keeping the championship alive. Although I wonder if we might see this crazy 2 cars per manufacturer rule being enforced...
Nissan must be pleased to hear this.
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4 Jun 2011, 14:09
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It was an obvious move to let GT3 cars in the world championship. Grids will hopefully grow. Now, performance balance will be even harder to enforce.
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4 Jun 2011, 14:18
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As far as I can see, the 2 car team thing might actually be beneficial, providing there are enough manufacturers. Ferrari, mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche, maybe even Spyker or Jaguar will be able to join the fray along with possible returns of Maserati and Saleen. Along with the current GT1 grid, it could make for a mouth watering line up whilst putting less pressure on the manufacturers to have two 2-car teams. Whilst this is wishful thinking it's certainly plausible, despite the inevitibly tedious performance balancing saga that will ensue.
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4 Jun 2011, 14:22
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Would it be at all possible to build a GT1/2/3 'hybrid' that could run in the series? Say a GT3 style car with GT1 aero, etc?
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4 Jun 2011, 16:24
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basicly the fia GT champ has become the new dutch champ... all kinds of car mixed....
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4 Jun 2011, 23:37
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5 Jun 2011, 00:28
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5 Jun 2011, 13:15
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So, if I understand correctly...
The FIA GT and the ILMC are gonna merge next year and will race finally alltogether???
In Godīs Sake...thatīs just Common Sense!
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5 Jun 2011, 13:24
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Originally Posted by Senna-F1God
So, if I understand correctly...
The FIA GT and the ILMC are gonna merge next year and will race finally alltogether???
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5 Jun 2011, 18:29
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Originally Posted by Senna-F1God
So, if I understand correctly...
The FIA GT and the ILMC are gonna merge next year and will race finally alltogether???
In Godīs Sake...thatīs just Common Sense!
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Simply put, in 2012 we will have two sportscars world championships. The FIA GT World Championship (GTWC) is a world championship for sprint based sportscar races using GT1, GT2 2009 and GT3 run by the SRO. The FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) is a world championship for endurance based sportscar races using LMP and GTE cars run by the ACO.
In short, GTWC is for your sprint runners and WEC is for your marathon runners.
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6 Jun 2011, 18:57
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Got to be a good chance for lurid who does what, who goes where discussions now surely?
Ratel will clearly want things like the SLS, 458 and R8 in with the Lambo (presumably Reiter will do a Aventador), Aston, Nissan (got their bets hedged with a GT1 and GT3 version....) and Corvette (see Nissan but they have GT1, 2 AND 3 models IIUC!!). BMW can run the GT2/GTE thingy or, that nifty MZ4 device?
Where Porsche fits into this i'm not sure?
I reckon a new Jag XKRS would be a great addition and Prodrive could develop a new Vantage V12 to replace the DBR9?
So a few weeks ago when Ratel said he expects several new makes in a his world series next season, he knew this announcment was coming and we didn't!
Can't wait to see who, what enters and what new cars may materialise!
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6 Jun 2011, 19:18
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonanza
As far as I can see, the 2 car team thing might actually be beneficial, providing there are enough manufacturers. Ferrari, mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche, maybe even Spyker or Jaguar will be able to join the fray along with possible returns of Maserati and Saleen. Along with the current GT1 grid, it could make for a mouth watering line up whilst putting less pressure on the manufacturers to have two 2-car teams. Whilst this is wishful thinking it's certainly plausible, despite the inevitibly tedious performance balancing saga that will ensue.
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I'm not sure Saleen's homologation didn't expire this year let alone 2012.
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7 Jun 2011, 07:11
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Ratel wants 12 cars, I think:
01 Nissan (GT-R GT1/GT3)
02 Ford Matech (GT GT1/GT3)
03 Lamborghini (Murcielago GT1, Gallardo GT3)
04 Ferrari (F430 GT2, 458 GT3)
05 Porsche (RSR GT2 , GT3-R GT3)
06 Corvette (P&M C6R GT1, P&M Z06 GT2, Callaway Z06 GT3)
07 Aston Martin (DBR9 GT1, Vantage V8 GT2, Vantage V12 GT3)
08 BMW (M3 GT2, Z4 GT3)
09 Audi (R8 LMS GT3)
10 Mercedes (SLS GT3)
11 McLaren (MP412C GT3)
12 ???
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7 Jun 2011, 07:33
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This is how I see it going...
01 Nissan (GT-R GT1)
02 Ford Matech (GT GT1)
03 Lamborghini (Aventador GT1)
04 Ferrari (F458 GT2)
05 Porsche (RSR GT2)
06 Corvette (P&M C6.R GT2)
07 Aston Martin (Vantage V12 GT2)
08 BMW (M3 GT2)
09 Audi (R8 LMS GT3)
10 Mercedes (SLS GT3)
11 McLaren (MP412C GT3)
12 Lotus (Evora GT2)
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7 Jun 2011, 07:53
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Quote:
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I'm not sure Saleen's homologation didn't expire this year let alone 2012.
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possibly, though it seems to me SRO are always open to extending homologations, didn't Maserati and Aston have their homologations extended for 2010, let alone 2011?*
*I may be wrong because I am no expert on sports car racing, but something like that.
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