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Could we'll be seeing the return of the trident in FIA GT or Blancpain in the future? It'll be nice to see them back!

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That is a private venture. Like the Emil Frey Jaguar. Maserati are rumored to be watching the project with interest though.

And International GT Open calls GTE for SuperGT, and GT3 for GTS. They also actually have a detuned GT1 C6.R, and a specially developed Aston Martin GTE with a V12 instead of a V8.
 
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Not at all! GT Open has begun back in 2006 butthis year has become the most impressive GT championship for sprint races

They have got a massive TV exposure and a lot of cars with Ferrari, porsche aston and lotus who are there with the works cars!

Bruni-LEO of AF corse are first in the championship followed by the works team porsche of Manthey racing with Holzer-tandy
 
City challenge Baku race 1 is on MotorsTV now, not that much overtaking - to be expected from a confrere funnel track. Traffic is making it a little more exciting though. C'mon the Z4's.
 
48 Cars for GT open in Barcelona !!

Wendlinger-Baumann and Rangoni-Garofano among the 48 entrants
30.10.2012

No exception to the tradition: the final round of the International GT Open will attract the best entry list of the season, as always, with many cars joining regular participants for the closing event. The entry list published today by GT Sport contains no less than 48 cars.

With respect to what announced Friday, in the first Preview, some heavy names have been added to the list. Seyffarth Motorsport will be present with two Mercedes SLS AMG in the hands of Jan Seyffarth-Kenneth Heyer, who already took two GTS wins at the Nürburgring, and Italian pair Luca Rangoni-Alessandro Garofano, who shone in the series last year.

Schubert Motorsport, on their side, will entrust their two BMW Z4 to Swedish pair Lars Stugemo-Daniel Roos, already seen in Budapest, and to a top pair composed of former F.1 star Karl Wendlinger and Dominik Baumann.

French GT stars Antoine Beltoise-Nicolas Armindo will drive the top of the three Porsches 911R of PRO GT Alméras, and Kurdish-Spanish driver Isaac Tutumlu will be along Miguel Ángel De Castro on the 2012 Porsche 911 RSR of Drivex.
 
Surprised nobody has been talking about Porsche and Flying Lizard Motorsport parting company. It'll be weird not seeing those cars on the grid, 9 years they've been together.

Flying Lizard Press Release
Flying Lizard Statement on Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Transition Announcement

October 26, 2012 – Sonoma, CA – Seth Neiman, Flying Lizard team principal said: "I and the entire Flying Lizard family would like to thank Porsche for their support and partnership over the last nine years. Together we have worked hard and have learned to rely on each other in critical moments, of which there have been many throughout our 100 races and multiple GT championships. Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, Hartmut Kristen, Jens Walther, Uwe Brettel, Alwin Springer, Roland Kussmaul, Hans-Georg Breuer and many others at Porsche get our special thanks, along with the numerous Porsche employees and affiliates in Germany, Atlanta and Southern California who have been an integral part of our team, and with whom we have become close friends. Flying Lizard remains committed to sports car racing, and we look forward to announcing details of our 2013 racing program later this year."
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Porsche Statement
Just like our recent Porsche RS Spyder program, we must appreciate the success of our race cars during their product cycle, but move on to new models when it is time to do so. The venerable Porsche 911 GT3 RSR has provided our Porsche customer teams with numerous wins and championships, and will remain competitive in 2013. Porsche will support the customer teams which continue to race that car, but the time has come and we now must focus our research and engineering development efforts on its successor.

In North America, the development partner helping to design, engineer and implement improvements in the current 911 RSR race car has been Flying Lizard Motorsports in the GT class of the ALMS. This partnership now is discontinued.

We will be at the track with our usual support for 2013, and some of our current customer teams have already committed to run the 911 GT3 RSR (type 997) next year. Each of the current teams will be announcing their plans as we get closer to the ALMS Winter Test in February.

Team owner Seth Neiman and his entire Flying Lizard Motorsports organization have helped both Porsche Motorsport and all our customer teams around the world by being our development partner in the U.S. Together we have won multiple championships in the ALMS. The team has assisted in testing everything from new engines and transmissions to the latest aero package we introduced earlier this year – all to improve the car for everyone. In the midst of all that, they won three straight ALMS GT championships in themost competitive class in sports car racing. We thank Seth and his team for that service, and hope their racing plans going forward continue to include Porsche.
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Wouldn't Flying Lizard make the most sense as a Viper team? It just seems like a really obvious connection there. With that name and logo, hell even the team colours...surely they should be running Vipers!?
 
I suppose they don't want to end up like RLL, fighting in a car with no development. Will be interesting to see what they run... Ferrari perhaps?
 
I can't see a future for the Lizards next year, they need a new car and new drivers. It would cost a bomb and they probably won't be competitive, at least not to the level they are used to.

I hope Long and Bergmeister stay in ALMS, possibly running a second car for Falken?
 
boiltheocean
I can't see a future for the Lizards next year, they need a new car and new drivers. It would cost a bomb and they probably won't be competitive, at least not to the level they are used to.

I hope Long and Bergmeister stay in ALMS, possibly running a second car for Falken?
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My thoughts also.
As much as I hate to say it, I can't blame them. The 997 is how old now?

Has there been any word on a 991 RSR? Or even a 918 being homologated?
FLM is gonna be downhill from here I'm guessing, that's no car and no drivers. Would have REALLY liked to see them help run Porsche's prototype in 2014, but its looking like that's not going to happen. :(
 
Whatever chassis they decide to run, they will still struggle. It will take them a little bit to figure out how the new car works. I hope they can get some good drivers onboard, and I agree. I bet it's Ferrari.
 
If they do go Ferrari, my money would be on Von Overbeek driving it.
Is there a particular reason why this isn't in he General Le Mans thread?
 
boiltheocean
I can't see a future for the Lizards next year, they need a new car and new drivers. It would cost a bomb and they probably won't be competitive, at least not to the level they are used to.
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They may very well move on to either LMP2 or LMP-C...
 
Even if PC is going to be irrelevant a year from now?
Or is the general consensus they're going to keep PC?
 
Long tweeted that "it's not as bad as it looks". And also notice that even if They have severed ties with Porsche as a dev team, it says nowhere that they wont be running Porsches.
Porsche have simply stopped the dev on the GT3 RSR, and that is all there is to it, really.
 
Mt. Lynx
Long tweeted that "it's not as bad as it looks". And also notice that even if They have severed ties with Porsche as a dev team, it says nowhere that they wont be running Porsches.
Porsche have simply stopped the dev on the GT3 RSR, and that is all there is to it, really.
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I thought that when I was reading the statements, but why would they do that? Now they'd have an outdated car that they won't be able to help improve.
 
Mt. Lynx
Long tweeted that "it's not as bad as it looks". And also notice that even if They have severed ties with Porsche as a dev team, it says nowhere that they wont be running Porsches.
Porsche have simply stopped the dev on the GT3 RSR, and that is all there is to it, really.
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I thought this too. I was hoping they would run a new Porsche Prototype (one we haven't been informed on, maybe a P2?) but we will just have to wait and see.
 
I think Radio Le Mans were just discussing it on their podcast, but I only caught a little bit of the middle of it. It sounded like Porsche were cutting the development of the GT3 altogether. Not sure though. Gotta wait until it's on iTunes. :banghead:
 
The way I understand it, Porsche have indeed cut all dev on the GT3. They will start dev on the 991, but probably for the new FIA/ACO unified GT-class coming up eventually. Wich means they will likely start dev by the end of next year. It is very likely that they will continue using partner teams - not the Lizards this time around though - since Porsche themselves will be running their P1 effort.
 
Yup, so after listening to the podcast, I've come to this:

- Porsche announced last weekend that they were cutting all dev of the 997 and they would not be coming out with a new car next year
- They will continue to supply parts
- Every single team running a Porsche in the world are stuck, whether it be Falbemeyer Proton, Green Hornet Racing, Brumos, or any of the Super/Carrera Cup cars
- FLM shortly afterwards announced the above, followed by what Porsche announced above
- Pat Long will be driving for FLM next year, which means they're probably still running a Porsche (Radio Le Mans crew thinks a DP maybe?)
- We will see a 991 RSR "sometime in 2013" to quote Porsche
- Resources are being diverted to the LMP1 car
- Falbemeyer Proton will not be running a GTE-Pro Porsche next year (MAYBE AM)
- A 991 legal next year, would not be legal in 2014

Will be an interesting off-season.
 
Pretty much 2013 is a regs black hole. No-one's going to develop a car for just one season.
 

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