FIA GT1 World Championship and GT3 of Europe at the Circuit de Navarra. Navarre circuit prepares to host the weekend's biggest races of the year
The next 2 and July 3 Navarra Circuit will host the biggest race of the year. Viewers will see in one weekend the FIA GT1 World Championship, the FIA GT3 European Championship and the MINI Challenge. It will only be intense on the asphalt, but also a parallel program of activities.
Saturday will begin with training of the MINI Challenge qualifiers, GT3 and GT1 until noon. Once past the meridian of the day, the first races begin the weekend.
First is the GT3 European Championship (1 time) and after it, the MINI Challenge race (48 minutes). Then the turn of the qualifying race of FIA GT1 World Championship that will form the starting grid the next day. The day of the July 3 starting at 9 am with warm up of the GT1 (30 minutes). Starting at 10 am, the Circuit de Navarra witness four races on the track of 4 kilometers, two of MINI Challenge, a GT3 European Championship and World Championship race FIA GT1.
After the last rounds of the FIA GT1 World Championship and FIA European GT3 Silverstone (UK), drivers set their sights high in the appointment of 2 and July 3 at the Circuit de Navarra.
In the fifth round of the GT World Championship, the pair of drivers Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr (Nissan GT-R) took the victory in Sunday's race in just outpacing 20 / 100 Tomas Enge and Alex Müller (Aston Martin DB9). The third of the podium as Mike Hezemans and Andreas Zuber (Corvette Z06) 0.491 also hundredths of Nissan GT-R.
After Silverstone, the championship will Navarra FIA GT1 commanded by Hexis AMR equipment (125 points), followed by JR Motorsports (116 points) and AMR Young Driver (113 points).
Meanwhile, the GT3 European Championship, the BMW Z4 GT3 exalted as the two top positions in the race for the big tourism landfall. The top finishers were Hoevert Vos / Jeroen den Boer. Behind them, and a second came Harrie Kolen / Nicky Catsburg. In third place was the Aston Martin DBRS 9 Gael Lesoudier / Maxime Martin.
FIA GT1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP For the second consecutive year the FIA GT1 World Championship visits the Circuit de Navarra in a weekend that will leave a great taste with the fans.
This championship brings together six major car brands (Aston Martin, Corvette, Ford, Lamborghini, Maserati and Nissan) in a competition format with its spectacular career. A total of 12 teams, 24 great cars and 48 of the world's best drivers, travel 10 of the best racing circuits in the world, among which is the Circuit de Navarra.
This is one of the biggest races of the world, is one of four official FIA world, and brings in millions of euros each meeting by adding the value of each car, trailers, materials, fuel, tires, engineers and drivers .
Each meeting consists of a qualifying race and a final race, both of 60 minutes duration, with different rating scale and driver change and tire required.
FIA GT3 EUROPEAN is the European Championship FIA GT race with a wide variety of car Ford GT, Audi R8 LMS, Corvette Z06R GT3, Aston Marting DBRS9, Morgan Aero 8, among others. The championship was established in 2006 as a career support other great prizes from the FIA, and gradually became one of the most striking and interesting races for the spectators.
The Circuit de Navarra hosted the April training GT3 officials at an event two days. The teams have tested the track four miles from the Circuit de Navarra and put on the asphalt all his preparation for the win.
MINI CHALLENGE The MINI Challenge is a competition of mini retro-brand that started in 2009 and has become a reference championship in Spain. In 2009 the Spanish version comes with an original team race format and a spectacular show in the paddock of the circuit to turn to. The F1 Grand Prix of Catalunya was the support race Formula 1.
The MINI Challenge is a spectacular and mounting competition with absolute equality between cars to ensure all the excitement and fun in the MINI style.
This is one of the most fun racing the Circuit de Navarra offered in 2011.
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