MOTOR RACING JOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATION
Latin America's Motor Racing Journalists' Association, which is formed by journalists representing more than 50 companies from 12 countries, has elected TC2000 as the best championship of last season. In other categories, Brazil's Felipe Massa was elected as the Latin American Driver of the Year, while Mexico's Esteban Gutierrez won the "Gonzalo Gonchi Rodriguez Prize", for drivers of under 21 years.
Buenos Aires, February 23rd 2009.- Latin America's Motor Racing Journalists' Association, which is formed by journalists representing more than 50 companies from 12 countries, has elected TC2000 as the best championship of last season. In other categories, Brazil's Felipe Massa was elected as the Latin American Driver of the Year, while Mexico's Esteban Gutierrez won the "Gonzalo Gonchi Rodriguez Prize", for drivers of under 21 years.
With 52 % of the votes on its side, and a total of 188 points, TC2000 established itself as the most appraised division of the continent. Brazil's Stock Car V8 division was the second most voted one, with 107 points, ahead of NASCAR Mexico which was third with 105 points. The Codasur Rally championship was fourth with 95 points, ahead of South American Formula 3 with 70.
CHAMPIONSHIP OR DIVISION OF THE YEAR
1. TC2000 (Argentina) 188 points
2. Stock Car V8 (Brazil) 107 points
3. NASCAR (Mexico) 105 points
4. Codasur Rally 95 points
5. South American Formula 3 70 points
6. Rally NACAM (Nacam) 30 points
7. LatAm Challenge F-Renault (Mexico) 21 points
8. Turismo Carretera (Argentina) 8 points
9. Turismo Nacional (Argentina) 5 points
10. Formula Truck (Brazil) 2 points
11. TC2000 (Colombia) 1 point
The category corresponding to the "Event of the Year" went to the Brazilian Grand Prix once again. Second place went to the Argentina Rally, fourth to the FIA GT event held at Potrero de los Funes (San Luis, Argentina), and ninth to TC2000's "Buenos Aires 200 Km", this latter event once again being considered as one of the most interesting ones.
EVENT OF THE YEAR
1. Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix 248 points
2. Argentina Rally (Argentina) 105 points
3. Mexico Rally (Mexico) 82 points
4. FIA GT round (Argentina) 72 points
5. WTCC round at Curitiba (BRazil) 41 points
6. Grand Am Mexico City 40 points
7. AiGP (Mexico) 34 points
8. WTCC round at Puebla (Mexico) 33 points
9.Buenos Aires 200 Km (Argentina) 20 points
10. Dos Sertoes Rally (Brazil) 17 points
Showing posts with label FIA-GT. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
FIA-GT Victory to Vitaphone and Prospeed in Adria 16/05/2009
The nr 1 Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC 12 claimed a fine win in Adria today, Bertolini and Bartels racing through the sunset to cross the line 10 seconds ahead of the PK Carsport Corvette C6R of Kumpen and Hezemans. The second Maserati, of Müller and Ramos, finished third, but could have claimed the win without a stop-go penalty. The Luc Alphand AVentures and SRT Corvettes came in fourth and fifth, with Full Speed Racing taking its first points in sixth. The K plus K Saleen had a difficult day, Wendlinger and Sharp going out at the start with a broken driveshaft. Bertolini and Bartels have taken an early lead in the points.
In GT2, Prospeed Competition repeated their Silverstone result, following disappointing qualifying with a fine win for Westbrook and Collard, giving them a good points lead. They were followed by both AF Corse Ferrari 430 GT2 cars, Vilander and Bruni taking their first points of the season, while Barba Lopez and Cadei took a fine first FIA GT podium. The second Prospeed Porsche was fourth, with the Brixia Porsche of Ragginger and Lucchini fifth, after leading for the whole of Ragginger's first stint.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
FIA-GT Oschersleben 2008
With an emphasis on the ACA Argentine team with their Ferrari 550 Maranello, drivers: Pechito Lopez & Martin Basso. Also the Perez Companc-Russo Ferrari 430 Team.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
FIA-GT Silverstone 2009
Thomas Biagi race report
Racing series FIA-GT
Date 2009-05-03
One point worth a victory
Silverstone (UK), May 3rd 2009 - "This point is worth a victory". This is Thomas Biagi first remark while he was stepping down smiling from his FORD GT40 at the end of the first lap of this FIA GT Championship. Happy for his eight place during the race and for hitting the first step of the podium of the so called "future car" vehicles, already compliant with next 2010 Regulation.
"I'm very much satisfied of the result got today, considering that our Ford GT40 is penalized by next regulation compliance compared to current GT1 cars and I'm also satisfied because this is the very first time I drive it in Silverstone!
I'm very pleased of the congratulations I got from Matech Concept Racing Team for the job done during this weekend. Our team has strong capabilities that need to be expressed. I will try to use all my experience in order to strenghten the reason why the Team wanted me.
Sincerely, I was not expecting to step on the podium and the fact of arriving before official Nissan makes us proud. At the moment we are well balanced in slow bends and it makes me optimistic for a further short step forward for Adria, a racetrack I feel confortable with. Don't miss the next date on May 16th for the second round of FIA GT...".
-credit: tb
Results
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
FIA GT figures laud San Luis track
By Matt Beer (Autosport) Monday, November 24th 2008, 11:58 GMT
The FIA GT Championship finale at San LuisFIA GT Championship figures believe the San Luis track used for this year's season finale will become a legendary circuit like Spa-Francorchamps and Bathurst.
The 3.896-mile Potrero de los Funes track is a semi-permanent circuit built around a volcanic lake, and was constructed in under a year. Its fast and undulating layout received lavish praise from drivers during the FIA GT title-decider last weekend.
Series promoter Stephane Ratel believes San Luis will rapidly become a world-renowned venue.
"This circuit will be a landmark in world motorsport," he said.
"The legendary circuits are usually very fast, very challenging, natural circuits, not designed by computers. Circuits like Le Mans, Spa, Bathurst - and now San Luis will be part of these big circuits of the world."
Fabrizio Gollin, who finished second in the race and the championship with co-driver Mike Hezemans, was one of many drivers who lauded the circuit layout, although he admitted that the current level of dust made it treacherous.
"The track is unbelievable," he said. "I think it's one of the best tracks in the world.
"The only thing is it's completely new so there is only one good line. Off-line is very slippery."
Series champion Michael Bartels agreed that the dust had made the race difficult, but was still full of admiration for the San Luis track.
"The track's condition was really difficult and this turned the race - which should have been a stroll in the park - into a sort of lottery in which anything could happen," he said.
"I'd also like to emphasise the great job the San Luis community did in creating this circuit in just nine months."
Ratel was also amazed by what the San Luis authorities had achieved.
"About 18 months ago, I had a very pleasant dinner with Carlos Garcia Remohi (head of Argentine motorsport) in Paris, and we discussed the opportunity to bring international circuit racing back to Argentina," said Ratel.
"We had this discussion and he told me about the project in San Luis. I came here to discover Potrero de los Funes, which was undoubtedly an amazing place to spend a week's vacation. But after the first lap we did together on the small road around the lake, I had to be very inventive to imagine that we could ever do a race here.
"Eighteen months later, I am delighted I took that decision, which sounded a bit crazy at the time, because I am absolutely amazed and I want to thank everybody involved."
Monday, November 24, 2008
FIA-GT - Potrero de los Funes - 2008 - Last race of the season
FIA-GT - Potrero de los Funes - 2008 - Argentina. New excellent circuit and quite an interesting race under the sun (very hot day).
Vitaphone duo take title in crazy race
By Matt Beer Sunday, November 23rd 2008, 18:26 GMT
Andrea Bertolini, Maserati's Herbert Wester, and Michael Bartels on the San Luis podiumPK Saleen duo Bert Longin and Anthony Kumpen ended a miserable season on a high by taking a shock win in the dramatic FIA GT Championship finale in Argentina, as Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini clinched the drivers' title in fifth place.
Fabrizio Gollin and Mike Hezemans (Phoenix Corvette) finished a close second, but their title hopes depended on Vitaphone Maserati duo Bartels and Bertolini finishing outside the top six.
In the event their conservative fifth made Bartels and Bertolini champions for a second time, and gave the team their third straight drivers' crown.
Marcel Fassler and Ricardo Risatti had looked set to take a dominant win for Phoenix at the breathtaking new San Luis track, only for Fassler to crash out of the lead with just 22 minutes remaining - having controlled most of the race.
Pole-winner Fassler was beaten away by Larbre Saleen's Frederic Makowiecki at the start, with the Frenchman - in only his second FIA GT1 appearance and his first since Dubai 2006 - fending off Fassler's pressure over the opening laps before briefly pulling out a three-second lead.
But as the first stops approached, the Corvette calmly closed back onto the Saleen's tail, with Fassler slicing ahead on lap 18.
Mackowiecki stayed in touch, only for his co-driver Roland Berville to end Larbre's hopes of victory when he hit the wall on the first lap of his stint.
That left Fassler and Risatti with an enormous lead over their teammates Gollin and Hezemans, who had moved up from an early sixth place thanks to good pit work and other teams' problems.
They lost second to Kumpen's PK Saleen just before the final stops, but Hezemans was able to re-pass Kumpen's co-driver Longin early in the final stint.
That pass turned out to be for the race lead, as at the same moment Fassler ran wide at the final corner and clouted the wall, costing him and Risatti a comfortable win.
Hezemans therefore picked up the lead, but could not shake off Longin, who slipped back ahead with eight minutes to go and subsequently resisted huge pressure from the Dutchman to claim the victory.
The race then came to a bizarre end when the two leaders tangled amid traffic on the slowing down lap, with the victorious PK Saleen sustaining broken suspension and spinning into the wall. The stewards are investigating both drivers' actions.
With the second Vitaphone Maserati retiring after Alexandre Negrao hit the wall avoiding a GT2 car, Maxime Soulet and Christian Ledesma came through from the back of the grid - having lost their qualifying times due to a tyre infringement - to complete the podium for SRT Corvette.
Fellow back row starters Jose Maria Lopez and Esteban Tuero took fourth. Lopez tore through the field in the ageing ACA Argentina Ferrari in the first stint, getting as high as third before losing time with a slow pit stop.
Local duo Matias Russo and Luis Perez Companc (Advanced Engineering Ferrari, see photo) took a popular home win in GT2, but only after the AF Corse Ferrari slowed dramatically in the flying laps.
Until then, GT2 champions Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander had appeared to be on course to take class victory from the back of the grid following Vilander's qualifying crash. Pole-sitter Russo had pulled away early on, but his co-driver Companc lost the lead to the flying Vilander just before half-distance, only for the AF Corse car's huge lead to disappear in the final moments, allowing Russo and Companc to take the win after all.
Christian Montanari and Thomas Biagi completed the podium in the second AF Corse Ferrari, while Emmanuel Collard and Richard Westbrook's Prospeed Porsche was an early retirement.
Race Results
2008 Final Standings
Vitaphone duo take title in crazy race
By Matt Beer Sunday, November 23rd 2008, 18:26 GMT
Andrea Bertolini, Maserati's Herbert Wester, and Michael Bartels on the San Luis podiumPK Saleen duo Bert Longin and Anthony Kumpen ended a miserable season on a high by taking a shock win in the dramatic FIA GT Championship finale in Argentina, as Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini clinched the drivers' title in fifth place.
Fabrizio Gollin and Mike Hezemans (Phoenix Corvette) finished a close second, but their title hopes depended on Vitaphone Maserati duo Bartels and Bertolini finishing outside the top six.
In the event their conservative fifth made Bartels and Bertolini champions for a second time, and gave the team their third straight drivers' crown.
Marcel Fassler and Ricardo Risatti had looked set to take a dominant win for Phoenix at the breathtaking new San Luis track, only for Fassler to crash out of the lead with just 22 minutes remaining - having controlled most of the race.
Pole-winner Fassler was beaten away by Larbre Saleen's Frederic Makowiecki at the start, with the Frenchman - in only his second FIA GT1 appearance and his first since Dubai 2006 - fending off Fassler's pressure over the opening laps before briefly pulling out a three-second lead.
But as the first stops approached, the Corvette calmly closed back onto the Saleen's tail, with Fassler slicing ahead on lap 18.
Mackowiecki stayed in touch, only for his co-driver Roland Berville to end Larbre's hopes of victory when he hit the wall on the first lap of his stint.
That left Fassler and Risatti with an enormous lead over their teammates Gollin and Hezemans, who had moved up from an early sixth place thanks to good pit work and other teams' problems.
They lost second to Kumpen's PK Saleen just before the final stops, but Hezemans was able to re-pass Kumpen's co-driver Longin early in the final stint.
That pass turned out to be for the race lead, as at the same moment Fassler ran wide at the final corner and clouted the wall, costing him and Risatti a comfortable win.
Hezemans therefore picked up the lead, but could not shake off Longin, who slipped back ahead with eight minutes to go and subsequently resisted huge pressure from the Dutchman to claim the victory.
The race then came to a bizarre end when the two leaders tangled amid traffic on the slowing down lap, with the victorious PK Saleen sustaining broken suspension and spinning into the wall. The stewards are investigating both drivers' actions.
With the second Vitaphone Maserati retiring after Alexandre Negrao hit the wall avoiding a GT2 car, Maxime Soulet and Christian Ledesma came through from the back of the grid - having lost their qualifying times due to a tyre infringement - to complete the podium for SRT Corvette.
Fellow back row starters Jose Maria Lopez and Esteban Tuero took fourth. Lopez tore through the field in the ageing ACA Argentina Ferrari in the first stint, getting as high as third before losing time with a slow pit stop.
Local duo Matias Russo and Luis Perez Companc (Advanced Engineering Ferrari, see photo) took a popular home win in GT2, but only after the AF Corse Ferrari slowed dramatically in the flying laps.
Until then, GT2 champions Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander had appeared to be on course to take class victory from the back of the grid following Vilander's qualifying crash. Pole-sitter Russo had pulled away early on, but his co-driver Companc lost the lead to the flying Vilander just before half-distance, only for the AF Corse car's huge lead to disappear in the final moments, allowing Russo and Companc to take the win after all.
Christian Montanari and Thomas Biagi completed the podium in the second AF Corse Ferrari, while Emmanuel Collard and Richard Westbrook's Prospeed Porsche was an early retirement.
Race Results
2008 Final Standings
Monday, October 20, 2008
FIA-GT Zolder 2008/10/19 - Victory for Bertolini and Bartels
Fourth Team's title for Vitaphone
A close and exciting race around the 4.006 km Zolder circuit today saw Vitaphone Racing Team’s nr 1 Maserati MC 12 of Bartels and Bertolini claim victory; along with a points finish for the nr 2 car, the team has now clinched its fourth consecutive GT1 Teams title. Coming out ahead after a lighting final pit stop, they finished ahead of their only remaining title rivals, Phoenix Carsport’s duo of Mike Hezemans and Fabrizio Gollin, and the Jetalliance Aston Martin DBR9 of Karl Wendlinger and Ryan Sharp. Three different manufacturers finished in the top three, separated by just over 10 seconds.
In GT2, newly crowned Champions Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni celebrated in style with their fifth win of the season in the nr 50 AF Corse Ferrari 430 GT2. BMS Scuderia Italia drivers Malucelli and Ruberti strengthened their second position in the Championship with second, while the nr 60 Prospeed Competition Porsche claimed its first podium of the season for their home race.
Results remain provisional subject to sporting and technical scrutineering.
Monday, October 6, 2008
FIA-GT - Nogaro - France - 2008-10-05
FIA-GT at Nogaro, France. A very entertainning race. In 2 parts.
Michelin race report
Nogaro race results
Standings after Nogaro
Michelin race report
Nogaro race results
Standings after Nogaro
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
FIA-GT race at Brno - 2008-14-09
ACA Argentina Ferrari 550 Maranello: Esteban Tuero, Martin Basso
Race results here
Standings after Brno
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
FIA-GT - Bucharest - 2nd Race - 2008-08-08
FIA-GT Second Race in the streets of Bucharest, Romania. Spectacular racetrack within the city. Again a Corvette comes in first in the GT1. See race summary and Standings
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Le Mans 1966 - Ford GT40 MK II
A video of Le Mans 1966 won by the Ford team with the three famous Ford GT40 MK II cars (in German).
Also see this on-board camera on a 1969 Ford GT40 in Le Mans
Official Results and more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
In 1966, the Ford Mk. II had become reliable. Shelby test driver Ken Miles managed to win at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring with the big block Ford. Ford sent no less than eight Mark II to La Sarthe, entered by three teams: Shelby, Holman & Moody and Alan Mann Racing.
Ferrari sent only two works P3s to compete against the Ford armada. Another P3 was entered by NART, and four 365 P2 were entered by Ferrari's usual private partners.
The two works P3s were involved in an accident. At 01:45 the P2s had already exhausted their engine in trying to keep contact with the Mk. II and the last Ferrari prototype, the Pedro Rodríguez/Richie Ginther NART P3 retired with overheating. The race was won for Ford.
At the last pit stop, three GT40 Mark IIs were in front. Ken Miles and Denny Hulme were leading, followed by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon in the same lap. Ronnie Bucknum and Dick Hutcherson were third, but twelve laps behind.
At the finish, Ford decided to stage publicity photo between Miles/Hulme and McLaren/Amon with the No. 5 following, too. According to witnesses, McLaren left a small margin to Miles and it was expected that Miles/Hulme would be declared winner after the examination of the photo finish. But the ACO declared the McLaren/Amon car had won the race, having covered more distance in 24 hours, as it had started the race several places behind the Miles/Hulme car. The ACO estimated the difference to 8 meters. This was a terrible disappointment for Ken Miles who expected the triple crown Daytona-Sebring-Le Mans as a reward for his investment in the GT40 development. The well-known photograph published by the Ford Motor Company showing McLaren leading Miles, with the GT40 MkII of Ronnie Bucknum and Dick Hutcherson third, may have fooled some people, but this document doesn't show the finish line and the public doesn't know at what time the picture was shot. The finish remains, however, the closest in Le Mans history.
Also see this on-board camera on a 1969 Ford GT40 in Le Mans
Official Results and more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
FIA-GT in Oschersleben - 2008-07-06
The Argentinian 'Pechito' López in his Ferrari 550 Maranello struggles with Bartels in a Maserati MC12, and Gollin and Bouchut in both Corvettes Z06 in a spectacular part of the race in the FIA-GT in Oschersleben. Wendlinger/ Sharp and Muller/Lichtner-Hoyer in both Aston Martin DB9s came in first and second. See results: http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=297326&FS=FIA-GT
FIA GT Championship
Event
2008-04-20 2008-04-20 Silverstone
Silverstone Circuit
Northampton, England
2008-05-18 2008-05-18 Monza
Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Monza, Italy
2008-06-21 2008-06-21 Adria
Adria International Speedway
Adria, Italy
2008-07-06 2008-07-06 Oschersleben
Motopark Oschersleben
Oschersleben, Germany
2008-08-03 2008-08-03 Spa 24
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Francorchamps, Belgium
2008-08-24 2008-08-24 Bucharest
Road City
Bucharest, Romania
2008-09-14 2008-09-14 Brno
Automotodrom Brno
Brno, Czech Republic
2008-10-05 2008-10-05 Nogaro
Circuit Paul Armagnac
Nogaro, France
2008-10-19 2008-10-19 Zolder
Circuit Zolder
Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
2008-11-23 2008-11-23 San Luis
Potrero de los Funes
San Luis, Argentina
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FIA GT Championship
Event
2008-04-20 2008-04-20 Silverstone
Silverstone Circuit
Northampton, England
2008-05-18 2008-05-18 Monza
Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Monza, Italy
2008-06-21 2008-06-21 Adria
Adria International Speedway
Adria, Italy
2008-07-06 2008-07-06 Oschersleben
Motopark Oschersleben
Oschersleben, Germany
2008-08-03 2008-08-03 Spa 24
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Francorchamps, Belgium
2008-08-24 2008-08-24 Bucharest
Road City
Bucharest, Romania
2008-09-14 2008-09-14 Brno
Automotodrom Brno
Brno, Czech Republic
2008-10-05 2008-10-05 Nogaro
Circuit Paul Armagnac
Nogaro, France
2008-10-19 2008-10-19 Zolder
Circuit Zolder
Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
2008-11-23 2008-11-23 San Luis
Potrero de los Funes
San Luis, Argentina
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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