Interested teams can now order the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3. The gullwing model for the racetrack is being delivered on time for the coming motorsport season, starting in February 2011. The sales price is €334,000 (net)/€397,460 (incl. 19% VAT). Developed in accordance with the GT3 regulations of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile), the SLS AMG GT3 is designed as a customer sports car for sprint and endurance races.[...]
Next season the Super Taikyu Series in Japan is to add a new class based on the FIA GT3 regulations with the full support of the SRO Motorsports Group, the promoter of FIA GT3 racing worldwide. In 2011 the new ST-X Class will have three to four races with a full race schedule scheduled for 2012.[...]
Round 6 proved to be a race of firsts as Csaba Walter took the chequered flag in the Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport BMW Z4 over 20 seconds ahead of the Prospeed Competition Porsche 911 GT3R. It was the first FIA GT3 win for BMW, Dunlop and the Schubert Motorsport team. Walter is also the first Hungarian winner in the championship and Claudia Huertgen the first female driver to win a race in the FIA GT3 European Championship.[...]
The nr3 Team Rosberg Audi R8 LMS of Kenneth Heyer took the chequered flag in Round 5 at Jarama after the nr101 Callaway Competition Corvette Z06R of Christian Hohenadel slowed on the last lap with fuel pump problems. The Audi started 15th on the grid, with Bernd Herndlhofer handing over the car to Heyer at the pitstops in 6th. The Argo Racing Lamborghini of Albert von Thurn und Taxis made the early running but faded in last part of the race when Giorgio Sanna was tapped into a spin on two occassions, eventually finishing 7th. The Chad Racing Ferrari of Diego Alessi and Giacomo Petrobelli was third behind Hohenadel’s strugging Callaway Competition Corvette[...]
The second meeting of the FIA GT3 European Championship was on the programme this weekend at Brno in the Czech Republic. As was the case in previous seasons ProSpeed Competition is one of the three Porsche representatives in this prestigious FIA GT3 championship.[...]
Team Rosberg based in Neustadt an der Weinstraße experienced a fair to middling weekend at the second round of the FIA GT3 European Championship at Brno, Czech Republic. In both races Kenneth Heyer/Bernd Herndlhofer clearly improved from poor grid positions by pushing to make up ground – but ultimately the negative qualifying results took their toll.[...]
United Autosports netted 14th and 25th plus 19th and 21st positions in the third & fourth rounds respectively of the FIA GT3 European Championship at the 3.36-mile Automotodrom Brno circuit in the Czech Republic this weekend (May 22-23).[...]
Graff Racing’s Mike Parisy and Joakim Lambotte took their second win of the weekend at Brno this afternoon. Having started race four of the 2010 FIA GT3 European Championship from the second row, a strong race of the two French drivers was rewarded with a deserved win.[...]
The Corvette Z06R GT3s dominated the first FIA GT3 European Championship race at Brno this afternoon. On a wet track the American cars secured a 1-2-3, with the pole sitting Argo Racing Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 of Geipel and Von Thurn und Taxis the first non-Corvette in fourth place.[...]
Philip Geipel and Diego Alessi secured the pole positions for races three and four of the 2010 FIA GT3 European Championship. The Argo Racing and Chad Racing drivers were quickest in their respective sessions on a sunny Brno circuit.[...]