Sébastien Loeb Racing will be entering the new FIA GT Series with two McLaren MP4-12C’s piloted by nine-time World Rally Rally champion Sébastien…
Mark Blundell is set to return for a full season racing with the United Autosports team as they launch a title assault…
A dozen cars from the Avon Tyres British GT Championship will be on show around the Birmingham NEC for the 2012 Autosport International show this weekend.
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The TCF Team Pick - What To Watch For In 2013
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Happy New Year!! After the hazy headache of the parties the year is stretched out ahead of us. In the concluding part of www.theCheckeredFlag.co.uk’s seasonal articles reviewing the 2012 season the regulars, instead looking back take a look forward to some of the highlights that await us all in the coming 365 days.
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The TCF Team Pick - Race Of The Year
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In the third in the series of articles in which the TCF regulars cast their eyes over the past 12 months the team recount their choices for the best races of 2012.
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The TCF Team Pick - Driver Of The Year
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In the first of a series of articles welcoming in the new year the regular contributors to theCheckeredFlag.co.uk choose the drivers from around the world of motorsport who, for them, have stood out in the most recent 12 months. Selections include the man who was almost F1 champion, a pair of new FIA world champions and a driver described as the best product yet from the Playstation Nissan GT Academy.
The Avon Tyres British GT Championship served up a steller season of racing, coming to a head with seven teams capable of taking the title from the finale at Donington Park.
Top British Touring Car team Triple Eight Race Engineering will join forces with Optimum Motorsport to form 888Optimum to run a two car team in next season’s Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
Single-seater giants Fortec Motorsport have announced they will compete in GT racing for the first time in 2013.
After winning the team’s championship in 2012 in the face of increasing competition Trackspeed will again field a trio of Porsches in the 2013 Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
The concept design for the Bentley Continental GT3 will make its UK debut at next month’s Autosport International at Birmingham NEC, after unveilings in both Paris and Los Angeles earlier this year.
After a successful toe-in-the-water effort 2012 Steve Chaplin at Complete Racing will return to the Avon Tyres British GT Championship next season for a full campaign in the GT4 class of the series.
Former Ginetta GT5 Challenge and G5 Cup racer Richard Sykes will join forces with company chairman Lawrence Tomlinson to form the first driver pairing for Ginetta’s two car team in next season’s Avon Tyres British GT Championship.
Nick Tandy Named Best Porsche Privateer Of 2012
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After a successful season both in Europe and the US Briton Nick Tandy collected the Porsche Cup, awarded by the manufacturer to the best privateer Porsche driver in GT racing.
In a rules change described as “minimal but important” by championship manager Benjamin Franassovici all performance balancing between different driver pairings in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship will be done with weight penalties in 2013.
The Avon Tyres British GT Championship will make its debut at Zandvoort next year, series promoter SRO confirmed, revealing a revised calendar for the series’ 2013 campaign.
Ginetta Cars will enter a pair of G55 cars in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship next season it has been announced.
