This season I’m racing in both the FIA World Endurance Championship, for JWA-Avila, and the Blancpain Endurance Series, with Marc VDS Racing. Though it might seem from the outside these series are quite similar, both being about long-distance racing, there’s a huge amount of contrast between them. The main difference between the WEC and the Blancpain [...]
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Fifty-three GT cars, the straights and sweeping bends of Silverstone, blazing Bank Holiday sunshine (we hope) and two full days to recover from it all – where else would you be? After last year’s season finale at the Northamptonshire track, the Blancpain Endurance Series makes its second visit to UK soil this weekend, for the [...]
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The venue was Italy and there were 16 Ferraris on the grid, but it was Belgian teams running German cars that dominated the opening round of the 2012 Blancpain Endurance Series in Monza. The #3 Marc VDS Racing BMW Z4 was the unexpected eventual winner, after struggling on Friday and Saturday with a lack of [...]
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A damp, cool and overcast Monza played host to Friday’s two practice sessions for the first round of the 2012 Blancpain Endurance Series. A total of 56 cars took to the legendary Italian track to fine-tune setups and iron out teething problems ahead of Saturday’s qualifying session.
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