For the 2010 season ProSpeed Competition is entering two brand new Porsche 911 GT3 R in the FIA GT3 European Championship. The Finnish duo Markus Palttala and Petri Lappalainen as also the Austrian driver Niki Lanik, winner of the FIA GT3 Porsche Manufacturer’s Cup with ProSpeed in 2009, are the drivers withheld.[…]
Fischer Racing continues its program in the FIA GT3 European championship after a successful first season last year. The team from Paderborn / Germany will return with it’s two Ford GT into the European championship, which starts in the beginning of May at Silverstone (UK). One of the legendary US-Supercars of Fischer Racing will be driven by Finn Mikko Eskelinen (37) and „Young Driver“ Christoffer Nygaard (23) from Denmark. The second driver pairing will be announced at a later date.[…]
It might have looked like the last week was all about the Le Mans Series and the Le Mans 24 Hours as they announced their entry lists for 2010. But there was news from SRO Motorsports Group and its FIA GT Championships as well.[…]
Lamborghini will also be represented in the fifth year of the FIA GT3 European Championship. ARGO Racing, based directly on the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit, fields two Reiter Engineering developed Gallardo LP560 GT3. As a result, the team, supported by the Lambert family’s internationally active automotive and motorsport industry supplier ATEC, returns to the series.[…]
After being announced during the FIA GT Championship weekend at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit back in October Martyn Pass of Audi UK Sport passed us more details on what will be the first British-based team to run an Audi R8 LMS sportscar.[…]
With the confirmation by the FIA World Motor Sport Council of the various FIA GT calendars all races are more or less confirmed now. Time for Planetlemans to put them all together and make it easier for you to see what series is racing where and when.[…]
Following the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is entering yet another racing car in the 2010 motorsport season: The 911 GT3 R will be raced in series based on the international FIA GT3 regulations, succeeding the 911
GT3 Cup S. The main focus in developing this new model was on better drivability and easier handling. […]
After the GT1 provisional calendar announcement earlier this week, the FIA World Motor Sport Council also approved the calendars for the FIA GT2 European Championship and FIA GT3 European Championship. Since the specific series’ can take place at combined events, here is the combined provisional calendar. […]
Thomas Mutsch and Walter Salles scored their first win of the 2009 season as the #1 Matech GT Racing Ford GT came through from 17th on the grid to take the chequered flag in Round 10 of the FIA GT3 European Championship. Mutsch made up fourteen places before handing the Ford to Salles […]
Round 9 of the 2009 FIA GT3 European Championship was suspended after several accidents occurred on lap 4 of the 60-minute race at Paul Ricard HTTT when rain fell on the exit of Turn 7, while the cars were on slick tyres. The race had been declared wet before the cars left the pits for the grid. […]