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FIA confirms GT1 and GT3 calendars
The FIA World Motor Sport Council has just confirmed the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship and FIA GT3 European Championship calendars.
The GT1 World Championship will consist of nine rounds – while a possible tenth round in Germany may be confirmed later on. The series will not return to Brno, Spa, the Nürburgring and Interlagos but will instead return to Zolder in April. Ordos (China) and Curitiba (Brazil) are new tracks on the calendar.
In FIA GT3 the teams will have Zandvoort and Smolensk Ring as new venues.
The following calendars were agreed:
2011 FIA GT1 World Championship
27.03 Abu Dhabi UAE
10.04 Zolder BEL
08.05 Algarve PRT
15.05 Sachsenring GER
05.06 Silverstone GBR
03.07 Navarra ESP
17.07 Paul Ricard FRA
04.09 Ordos CHN
23.10 Curitiba BRA
06.11 San Luis ARG*
* Subject to confirmation by the ASN
The Sachsenring race is to be confirmed by 21 December.
2011 FIA GT3 European Championship
08.05 Algarve PRT
05.06 Silverstone GBR
03.07 Navarra ESP
17.07 Paul Ricard FRA
21.08 Smolensk Ring**
16.10 Zandvoort NLD
From January 2011, success ballast in the FIA GT1 World Championship will be allocated to cars and drivers for each qualifying race, as well as the Championship race. In addition to the new scale for the qualifying race, the scale applied to the Championship race has also been amended.
Amended tyre regulations come into effect for GT1 from January 2011, which include an increase in the number of dry-weather tyres to six sets (of which only four are permitted for qualifying and the races). The intention is to allow the teams to use tyres to their maximum capacity during practice, reducing the necessity for additional costs with private testing.
For safety reasons, and to balance the performance of cars, success ballast allocated to a driver finishing in the top three places in a race counting towards the FIA GT3 European Championship will be converted into compensation times. These will be imposed during a pit stop and will be applied from one race to another, and do not accumulate from event to event.
The scale of compensation time, added to the minimum pit stop duration, allocated to each car and to the drivers for each race is as follows:
1st +15 seconds
2nd +10 seconds
3rd +5 seconds
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Why with all the no-name tracks on the GT1 calendar? This is supposed to be the pinnacle, they should be using well known tracks, as well as brand new, specially designed tracks.
@SchellZ
only partially agree with the “no name tracks” –
Abu Dhabi and Algarve are modern new sites,
Silverstone, Paul Ricard and San Luis are well-known, too.
But yes, I agree that I would also prefer Spa to Zolder when going to Belgium and Nuerburgring to Sachsenring in Germany, and also Barcelona to Navarra in Spain, and I wonder why they switched from the Interlagos F1 track, which was part of the championship this year, to Curitiba, which caused troubles in WTCC already.
still no return to the states for GT1 when two of the manufactures are American
@kw ( and Schellz )
I agree with your opinion, but hereby i’ll give you some reasons why the other tracks are or could be chosen.
SRO has a five-yearcontract with Zolder ( 2007-2011 ), first three years FIA GT, this year FIA GT3 and next year WC GT1. On the other hand, SRO didn’t like the idea that the 24 hours was the main event in SPA and the World Championship was “somewehere in the program” ( i agree ).
Nürburgring was only possible during the last weekend of august, just as this year, with Formula 1 only 50 kilometers away. Still the event was very well attended, but i understand they didn’t like to do this twice. Sachsenring is a well known track, MOTO GP run their Germany GP for years already on this track.
In my opinion the Navarra – track suited GT1 very well this year and is a better track for them in comparison with Barcelona and Valencia.
Maybe you didn’t know, but there is an existing SRO Brazil, promotor of the local GT-series ( which has contacts with all Brazilian tracks ) AND promotor of the local event. In my opinion, that’s one reason to switch traks from one side of the country to another ( Brasil is big ). On the other hand, at Interlagos Formula 1 is again not that far away ( date ).
ALMS, LMS, ILMC and WTCC aren’t either always running on “top” tracks. Thank God, otherwise it could be boring ( always the same tracks ) and it could lead to less tracks ( because there shouldn’t be any investing in modernisation ( why should they if it wouldn’t give any result )).
@Pierce. A little patience. I’ve read a few months ago that SRO is planning an GT3-championship in North America. Obviously, some races could also be attended by GT1′s.
I cannot find some news related to the Sachsenring confirmation. Has anybody heard a result?