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2018 Blachpain GT Calender
Round Circuit Date Series Report
1 Belgium Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium 7–8 April Sprint
2 Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy 22 April Endurance
3 United Kingdom Brands Hatch, Kent, Great Britain 5–6 May Sprint
4 United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Great Britain 20 May Endurance
5 France Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France 2 June Endurance
6 Italy Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico, Italy 23–24 June Sprint
7 Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 28–29 July Endurance
8 Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród, Hungary 1–2 September Sprint
9 Germany Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany 15–16 September Sprint
10 Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain 30 September Endurance

2018 BRITISH GT CALENDAR
1&2 - Oulton Park - March 31 - April 2 - 2x 1hr
3 - Rockingham - April 28/29 - 1x 2hr
4&5 - Snetterton - May 26/27 - 2x 1hr
6 - Silverstone 500 - June 9/10 - 1x 3hr
7 - Spa-Francorchamps - July 21/22 - 1x 2hr
8 - Brands Hatch - August 4/5 - 1x 2hr
9 - Donington Park - September 22/23 - 1x 2hr

We've got a huge grid of GT's in Britain in 2013 with Fortec announcing that they will be running 2 SLS's, 888 running two BMW Z4's and AF Corse running at least 1 Ferrari 458.

In other news Bentley will be returning to Sportscars with a GT3 Continental GT3.

With help from M-Sport.

Trackspeed will enter 3 cars in British Gt'S:

http://www.britishgt.com/newsitem.php?key=1698

Complete Racing will enter the GT4 Class:

http://www.britishgt.com/newsitem.php?key=1697

So, uhm, where do we post what? As there now is a GT-thread, an ADAC Masters-thread and this GT3-thread

Well, there isn't really any GT news required anymore as GT3 is all that remains (GTE goes under ACO/Sportscars)... GT Masters is significant enough that it might have its own thread, perhaps we leave this thread for the other GT3 series? Blancpain, British, Aussie, FFSA, etc.?

As long as no Le Mans-related news items goes in here, but in it's own thread.

That's kinda my thinking behind it. British, Blancpain etc. ADAC can have it's own thread as does WEC and le Mans. I also thought about putting a couple of 24 hour races in here too.

Grand-AM/ALMS can go into another thread as well.

I just felt the Random GT/Sportscars thread was a bit long in the tooth and perhaps we can get more exposure from more local championships like British GT in a thread like this.

Considering the Blancpain Series is bigger than ADAC, I'll (or someone else) probably make a seperate thread for it when the new season closes in. I was planning on doing that anyway as well

British, French and whatever SRO is going to pull out of its sleeve can go in here then?

Don't forget Pirelli World Challenge, which will basically be American GT3.

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I had forgotten about that one, so I'll add the calender and that later this week after Chrimbo.

Could I also add, that if they could point out where we could watch the series too.

pretty sure speedcasttv has the PWC.

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They stream the races live on their own website. http://world-challengetv.com/

News on the Bentley GT3:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/105046

Mark Blundell is racing for United Autosports this season. British GT is shaping up for another healthy season.

This a list posted on the DSC for the British GT entry list. A few people have confirmed so some updating will need to happen:

GT3

Confirmed
888Optimum – BMW Z4 – Lee Mowle/Joe Osborne
888Optimum – BMW Z4 – Steve Tandy/Dan Brown
AF Corse – Ferrari 458 – John Dhillon/Aaron Scott
AF Corse – Ferrari 458 – TBA/TBA
FF Corse – Ferrari 458 – Gary Eastwood/Rob Barff
FF Corse – Ferrari 458 – TBA/TBA
Ginetta – Ginetta G55 – Richard Sykes/Lawrence Tomlinson
Ginetta – Ginetta G55 – TBA/TBA
Trackspeed – Porsche 911 GT3 R – Jon Minshaw/Phil Keen
Trackspeed – Porsche 911 GT3 R – TBA/TBA
Trackspeed – Porsche 911 GT3 R – TBA/TBA
United Autosports – McLaren MP4-12C – Zak Brown/Alvaro Parente
United Autosports – McLaren MP4-12C – Richard Meins/Jody Firth
United Autosports – Audi R8 LMS ultra – Mark Patterson/Matt Bell

Expected (not confirmed)
Apex Motorsport – McLaren MP4-12C – Jim Geddie/Glynn Geddie
Beechdean – Aston Martin Vantage – Andrew Howard/Jonny Adam
Cyber Racing – Phil Dryburgh/John Gaw
Ecurie Ecosse – BMW Z4 – TBA/TBA
Motorbase – Porsche 911 GT3 R – TBA/TBA
Motorbase – Porsche 911 GT3 R – TBA/TBA
Preci-Spark – Mercedes AMG SLS – David Jones/Godfrey Jones
Rosso Verde – Ferrari 458 – Hector Lester/Allan Simonsen
Scuderia Vittoria – Ferrari 458 – TBA/TBA
Stark by Hepworth – Ginetta G55 – Ian Stinton/TBA

Possibles
Barwell Motorsport – Aston Martin Vantage – Richard Abra/Mark Poole
Fortec Motorsports – Mercedes AMG SLS – TBA/TBA
Fortec Motorsports – Mercedes AMG SLS – TBA/TBA
JMH Automotive – Nissan GTR – TBA/TBA
JMH Automotive – Ferrari – Phil Burton/Adam Wilcox
MTECH – Ferrari 458 – Duncan Cameron/Matt Griffin
RJN Motorsport – Nissan GTR – TBA/TBA
Speedworks – TBA – Ron Johnson/Piers Johnson

GT4

Confirmed
Complete Racing – Aston Martin GT4 – Steve Chaplin/Tom Wilson

Expected (not confirmed)
APO Sport – Ginetta G50 – James May/Alex Osborne
Century Motorsport – Ginetta G50 – TBA/TBA
GPRM – Toyota GT86 – TBA/TBA
GPRM – Toyota GT86 – TBA/TBA
Jota Mazda – Mazda MX5 – TBA/TBA
Lotus Sport UK – Lotus Evora – TBA/TBA
Lotus Sport UK – Lotus Evora – TBA/TBA

GTC

Confirmed
FF Corse – Ferrari 458 Challenge – TBA/TBA

Expected (not confirmed)
Jordan Racing – Chevron GR8 – TBA/TBA

Actually, we can confirm more with Leipert Motorsport moving from ADAC to British GT:

http://www.britishgt.com/newsitem.php?key=1707

So we may be pushing 30 cars in British GT aswell.

British GT will have at least 2 races live this year on Motors and there is also a possibility of a live stream and putting the races on youtube like SRO did with the GT1's and GT3's.

http://news.motorsportvision.co.uk/4601.aspx#.UP_Yzc7h6I4.twitter

Beechdean Motorsport returns to Brit GT in 2013.