McLaren GT 3 Heads Back to Sports Car Racing

In December, 2010, McLaren confirmed its plans to bring back the McLaren name to GT sports cars racing. From 2012, McLaren and CRS Racing, an experienced UK-based racing team, will supply and support a limited number of GT3 racing cars based on the McLaren MP4-12C high-performance sports car for European-based privateers. With the 12C’s lightweight one-piece moulded carbon chassis (the ‘MonoCell’), its levels of downforce and aerodynamic performance, the 12C should prove to be a great platform to develop a racing car, as well as visually setting pulses racing at European race tracks. More details about the McLaren 12C GT3 racing car program will be announced in 2011.
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GT1 2012 The Pinnacle of Sports Car Racing | GTWorld

GT1 – The Speed and Excitement of the current 2012 season GT1, GT3 LIVE here Spain, Navarra 26-27 May 2012 | GTWorld All times are given in Spanish time (UTC/GMT + 2) Saturday 26 May 2012 – 1500-1630 – GT1 Qualifying Session, 1700-1815 – GT3 Qualifying Session, 1930-2100 GT1 Qualifying Race Sunday 27 May 2012 – 1000-1130 – GT3 Race 1, 1230-1400 – GT1 Championship Race, 1430-1600 GT3 Race 2 The FIA GT1 World Championship is a world championship sports car racing series developed by the SRO Group and regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). It features multiple grand tourer race cars based on production road cars and conforming with the GT1 (2010-2011) and GT3 (2012-) regulations competing in one-hour races on multiple continents. Championships are awarded each season for drivers and teams. The FIA GT1 World Championship has started in 2010 as a successor to the previous FIA GT Championship which featured the GT1 category as well as a GT2 category. In 2012 the series originally planned to move away from exclusive use of GT1 cars by allowing 2009-spec GT2 from the former FIA GT Championship as well as current performance balanced GT3 specification cars to compete alongside the series’ current GT1 cars. However as there were no interested GT2 teams and only a handful of former GT1 runners were willing to participate, the SRO decided that the 2012 season would be contested with GT3-spec cars only (yet retaining GT1 in the series’ title). All vehices
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Future of sports car racing to be unveiled at Daytona

Future of sports car racing to be unveiled at Daytona
Grand-Am and its main sports car racing competitor in the U.S., ALMS, announced in September they will unify. The NASCAR-owned Grand-Am Series, founded in 1999, will act as the sole sanctioning body for sports car racing in the U.S. beginning in 2014.
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Lil Twist Drove Justin Bieber's Car During Deadly Accident: Report
Young Money rapper Lil Twist was reportedly behind the wheel of Justin Bieber's Ferrari sports car when a paparazzo tailing the vehicle was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday night (Jan. 1). According to TMZ, the 19-year-old hip-hop artist was with …
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