Britcar Endurance Launch 17:00 20 Nov

Britcar Endurance Launch 17:00 20 Nov

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88racing

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162 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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The new Britcar Endurance Championship will officially launch at 17:00 GMT on Friday 20th Nov.

http://www.britcar-endurance.com/

Lets get the grid numbers back up to where they used to be for 2016.

Chris.

Tanuki

108 posts

211 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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(Hi Chris.)

Interested to see how this develops.

88racing

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Friday 20th November 2015
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Britcar want to bring endurance racing back to the UK. Teams wanted longer races and great grids so with this is in mind we created the Dunlop Endurance Championship.

The 2016 season will be made up of 8 weekends of 8 races with 7 to count towards the Championship. To help teams control the rising costs of motorsport we aim for all these to be one day meetings saving on hotels etc. Race lengths will range from 2 – 4 hrs at Britain’s Finest Circuits plus a Non-Championship 4 hr race at Spa Francorchamps.

Cars will be categorised in one of five classes. The new system of classification will provide a more complete vehicle performance indicator, ensuring that you are racing against other cars of a similar lap time and not just similar engine power.

The Dunlop Production Championship has been specifically formulated to bring Production Cars back into the Britcar Endurance package.

Motorsport is an expensive sport so to save teams and drivers the cost of hotels etc we have tried to build the production championship around 1 day meetings. The 2016 season will be made up of 8 weekends of 16 races with 13 to count towards the Championship. 6 out of the meetings will consist of 2 x 50 mins, 1 round will be 3 x 50 mins and to finalise the Championship we 1 x 50 min Night Race at Brands Hatch on the Indy Circuit. Everyone’s favourite last round of the season!!!. Plus the drivers will have the opportunity to do a Non-Championship 4 hr race at Spa Francorchamps.

Cars will be categorised in one of three classes, using the unique classification system. This uses not just the peak BHP / weight but also torque and modifications used on the vehicles. The new system of classification will provide a more complete vehicle performance indicator, ensuring that you are racing against other cars of a similar lap time and not just similar engine power.

Full details of the new packages are now available from the website:
http://britcar-endurance.com

indigorallye

555 posts

231 months

Stuart Thompson

581 posts

169 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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Yes!! Night race back at Brands, just need a championship round and I'll be a happy bunny!

88racing

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Friday 20th November 2015
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Was really looking forward to into-the-night at Donny but I guess they must have a curfew. Don't know if I'm going to get to race next season - or in what - but I hope I'll get the chance to do a few.

Chris.

indigorallye

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231 months

Friday 20th November 2015
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I'm hoping to do some, but only after the 24 which is our priority.

88racing

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Friday 20th November 2015
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Provision calendar as follows:

Dunlop Endurance Championship 2016
26/27 March Silverstone GP 2 hr
7/8 May Snetterton '300' 4 hr
4/5 June Donington GP 3 hr
2/3 July Thruxton 2 hr
23/24 July Croft 3 hr
TBA TBA TBA
1 Oct Oulton Park 2 1/2 hr
5/6 Nov Brands Hatch Indy 2 hr Night Race

Dunlop Production Championship 2016
26/27 March Silverstone GP 2 x 50 mins
7/8 May Snetterton '300' 2 x 50 mins
4/5 June Donington GP 3 x 50 mins
2/3 July Thruxton 2 x 50 mins
23/24 July Croft 2 x 50 mins
TBA TBA TBA
1 Oct Oulton Park 2 x 50 mins
5/6 Nov Brands Hatch Indy 1 x 50 mins Night Race

We're also working on a non-championship points scoring 4 hour race at Spa 7-9th October for both Championships.

Thurbs

2,781 posts

228 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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I am interested in the production championship but am curious about the classes and tyres. Is there any details on this? and if not any idea when this will likely be published?

For example, would a 335cd on 1b tyres be the kind of thing this is aimed towards??

88racing

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162 months

Saturday 21st November 2015
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Tyres are Dunlop race slicks or wets, as provided on site, but your BMW would most certainly fit one of the classes.

Entry fees I don't think will be finalised until Autosport show in January but feel free to email Claire now - address on the contact page. I know it was her aim to keep them similar to this season.

Chris.

Edited by 88racing on Saturday 21st November 14:14

Soul Reaver

499 posts

198 months

Monday 23rd November 2015
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Both these look good for the Audi so I might dip my toe next year. Spa looks fun but October might be a bit rainy. Still Spa can be rainy anytime I guess.