They won the last two races of the 2011 season, and now they’ve won the first two races of 2012: Belgian BMW team Marc VDS Racing continued their remarkable winning streak in the Blancpain Endurance Series today at Silverstone.
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New Zealander Matt Halliday put in a well judged performance on a damp but drying track to clinch pole position for this afternoon’s GT1 World Championship qualifying race in Zolder, Belgium, but then received a three-place grid penalty for crossing the white line at the pit exit during the session.
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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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Team WRT opened their GT1 World Championship campaign with a 1-2 sweep in today’s opening round of the series at Nogaro, France. Young Belgian Laurens Vanthoor and experienced Monagesque Stephane Ortelli produced a calculating performance in difficult damp conditions to take the win.
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SRO boss Stephane Ratel laid out the format of this year’s GT1 World Championship during his ‘State of the Union’ address at last year’s Spa 24 Hours in July. He stated that the championship would be run purely for GT3-specification cars in 2012, with 2011 being the last year of the true GT1 machines, which [...]
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