They won the qualifying race at Zolder, but now Vita4One team boss Michael Bartels and his star driver Yelmer Buurman have tasted championship race success, too. Extremely fast pit work from the BMW team’s mechanics allowed them to beat the pace-setting McLaren and claim the GT1 World Championship points lead with an important win at [...]
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They qualified third, dropped to seventh on the first lap, but came back to win: Max Nilsson and Mika Vahamaki’s progress in the first of today’s two GT3 European Championship races in Navarra tells you all you need to know about how unpredictable and eventful it was. Race two was a far more straightforward affair, [...]
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BMW had the pace and Mercedes looked potent at times, too, but it was Audi that vanquished the oppostion at the 2012 Nurburgring 24 Hours with a dominant 1-2 finish courtesy of customer squads Team Phoenix and Mamerow Racing. Non-German marques didn’t get a look in at any point during this fascinating race, which included [...]
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The BMW Z4 scored its first win in the GT1 World Championship at Zolder on Saturday, in the hands of Michael Bartels and Yelmer Buurman of Vita4One Racing. In classic GT1 style, a hectic one-hour qualifying race saw close fights for all the podium positions right up to the chequered flag.
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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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After the rain and gloom of Easter Sunday, bright and dry weather greeted the GT1 World competitors for Easter Monday’s full-points championship race. Several drivers made blisteringly good starts off the grid – some a little too good, as subsequent jump-start penalties would reveal.
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