Wednesday 29th April 2009

GT-R Race Debut: May Bank Hols (Weekend)

2010-spec GT-R racer to mix it up with the class of 2009 at Silverstone 'Supercar Showdown'

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PHers looking for ways to spend the May Bank Holiday weekend could do worse than heading to Silverstone for the opening round of the 2009 FIA GT series.

GT-R heads to 'Supercar Showdown'

Nissan's new 2010-spec GT1 factory racer will be making its first 'competitive' outing in the hands of Germany's Michael Krumm and Britain's Darren Turner. Although nominally entered in the FIA GT1 category at Silverstone, the race is actually the first race test for the Nissan Motorsports (Gigawave) entry. Their recently announced 2010 category spec GT-R is much closer to production trim than the current crop of GT1 supercar exotics, so we're expecting lap-times for the GT-R to be a little down on the leaders.

Still, it will be great to see the GT-R in action, not to mention the glorious sight and sound of the Maserati MC12s, Corvette Z06s, Ford GTs, Ferrari F430s, Porsche 911s and lone Aston V8 Vantage that will be vying for points in the 2009 championship opener.

Supporting races will include the British F3 Inernational series, GT3 and GT4 European championships and the Lamborghini Super Trofeo.

For more details visit the Silverstone website.

(Please note. Bank Holiday weekend racing is Saturday/Sunday only.)

 

 

[Antj]

Bugger at Ring this weekend so will miss it.


Still least it will be at Le mans 2010. With Darren Turner (Aston Martin Winner of Le mans) at the wheel it should be competitve

[militantmandy]

Where can you watch this series on le televison? Or can it be downloaded from somewhere?

[stuart-b]

Yes, download link please when it's out!

[AJI]

Guessing the rules and regs do not allow 4WD and all the electronic wizardry such as front/rear diffs??
And as such, is it a true GT-R?
(I stand to be corrected by the way)

[WorAl]

The gearbox will go though.......................................................

[300bhp/ton]

I'd also be interested to know the spec of the GT-R - has it retained any of the points that make it such a good road car??

[rob999]

I'm going...wahoooo!

[Warick Hunt]

Nice but still looks like someone has driven it into a concrete block.

[Mr E]

AJI said:

Guessing the rules and regs do not allow 4WD and all the electronic wizardry such as front/rear diffs??
And as such, is it a true GT-R?
(I stand to be corrected by the way)

Spaceframe, NA V8, RWD....
....it looks a bit like the GTR. And by all accounts it's bloody quick.

Looking forward to Sunday.

[Luca Brazzi]

click here, scroll down to bottom and watch live on the web.

http://www.fiagt.com/


-Steve (at Silverstone from Friday, photographing) If you see a big white lens with a PH sticker on, come and say hi

[stephen300o]

I'm going sunday, I always enjoy these FIA GT race days.

[RJB_666]

Think i might head down. Just got to persuade some people to go.

[havoc]

Luca Brazzi said:

-Steve (at Silverstone from Friday, photographing) If you see a big white lens with a PH sticker on, come and say hi

I'll keep my eyes open...what do you look like?!?

[mainaman]

Mr E said:

AJI said:

Guessing the rules and regs do not allow 4WD and all the electronic wizardry such as front/rear diffs??
And as such, is it a true GT-R?
(I stand to be corrected by the way)

Spaceframe, NA V8, RWD....
....it looks a bit like the GTR. And by all accounts it's bloody quick.

Looking forward to Sunday.

The FIA spec GTR uses the road car steel monoqoque,not a spaceframe chassis,that's why Nismo struggle to keep the weight bellow 1250 kgs.

[Luca Brazzi]

havoc said:

Luca Brazzi said:

-Steve (at Silverstone from Friday, photographing) If you see a big white lens with a PH sticker on, come and say hi

I'll keep my eyes open...what do you look like?!?

But without the 'special hat' lol

[stephen300o]

Looking at the timetable, I might have to arrive sooner than expected to catch these,

http://www.supertrofeo.com/

[Luca Brazzi]

stephen300o said:

Looking at the timetable, I might have to arrive sooner than expected to catch these,

http://www.supertrofeo.com/

They will NOT be there, choosing to debut in Adria 2 weeks later. No reason given yet.

[stephen300o]

Luca Brazzi said:

stephen300o said:

Looking at the timetable, I might have to arrive sooner than expected to catch these,

http://www.supertrofeo.com/

They will NOT be there, choosing to debut in Adria 2 weeks later. No reason given yet.

Damn, that's a shame. How are the GT3 and GT4 grids looking?

[Luca Brazzi]

GT3 should have over 40 cars on the grid.
GT1/2 should have 13 and 12 cars plus 2 in G2 and G2, making a grid of 27 cars.

Should be great.

[ROCKY VIAZZANI]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaawwwwnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!