Taking their first win of the 2010 British GT Championship, Trackspeed’s David Ashburn and Glynn Geddie capitalised on a black flag, waved for the Rollcentre Mosler after a pit-stop infringement, to sail home to the chequered flag at Rockingham Motorspeedway. Starting the weekend's first race under the stewardship of David Ashburn, the 997 GT3RSR had little to offer the
Neel Jani is to add a GT1 World Championship programme with Matech Ford alongside his Le Mans Series commitments.
Vitaphone Racing dominated the full-points race at the Paul Ricard FIA GT1 World Championship event. The #1 Vitaphone Maserati MC12 driven by Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels followed up on its win in Saturday's qualification race in the championship round
Vitaphone Maserati driver Andrea Bertolini claimed a second consecutive FIA GT1 World Championship pole position at Paul Ricard. The Italian, who shares his Maserati MC12 with team boss Michael Bartels, followed up on his Brno pole with a stunning lap that put him more than half a second clear of his nearest rival in final qualifying
In recent years GT1 has been a battleground between Chevrolet Corvettes and Aston Martin's Prodrive-run DBR9s. The departure of the factory Corvette team to the GT2 class has made the increasingly marginalized GT1 category the domain of private teams, albeit ones with varying degrees of manufacturer support.
Works Chevrolet and Aston Martin drivers Oliver Gavin and Tomas Enge have welcomed the move by Le Mans organisers to abandon the new-era GT1 cars from next year.
GT1 cars will be dropped from next year's Le Mans 24 Hours under new plans by event organiser, the ACO.
Matech Ford GT drivers Romain Grosjean and Thomas Mutsch took their second GT1 World Championship win of the season in a chaotic race at Brno this afternoon. Grosjean started sixth and fell further down the field at the start. He fought back and was fourth when the pit window opened during the second safety car period of the race
Vitaphone Maserati drivers Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini won the GT1 World Championship qualification race at Brno this afternoon. Bartels led from pole and pulled out a lead of over 10 seconds before the pitstops began.
Reigning FIA GT champions Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels took pole for the third round of the GT1 World Championship at Brno this weekend. The Vitaphone Maserati pairing dominated all three sessions of qualifying before Bertolini secured pole with a stunning 1m55.441s. "Brno is really good for our car, so it's really important we score well this weekend," said Bertolini