ROAL MOTORSPORT DOUBLE FOR 2012

ROAL MOTORSPORT DOUBLE FOR 2012
Italy-based ROAL Motorsport will step up to a two-car team for the 2012 FIA World Touring Car Championship. After making their comeback to the series in 2011, with only one BMW 320 TC car, the outfit directed by former world champion Roberto Ravaglia are ready to double their effort adding Alberto Cerqui to Tom Coronel.
Coronel is facing his second season with the team; the 39-year old Dutchman emerged as the best of the rest in 2011, claiming one victory at Suzuka and being classified fourth in the Drivers' Championship behind the Chevrolet trio.
The team's second car will be entrusted to Italian racer Cerqui; although he is only 19 years old, he has already established himself as a rising star in touring car competitions, clinching the 2011 Italian Superstars title on his first year in a professional championship.
Team principal Ravaglia commented: "I am extremely satisfied for lining up two cars in 2012. It won't be easy to repeat the good results we achieved in 2011, but I am confident. Tom provides experience and reliability, while Alberto has already shown his talent in adapting to new circuits."
"2011 was a positive year. Race after race I improved the feeling with the team and we ended up fighting for the podium in the last four rounds. Starting from last year's fourth place, our goal is to improve and win some more races; I feel I can fight for third in the championship," Coronel stated.
Cerqui added: "After winning the Italian Superstars, WTCC was the obvious choice to continue my career in touring car racing. Having the opportunity to continue racing for ROAL Motorsport is a further reason to rejoice, though I am aware that is not going to be a walk in the park as most of the tracks are new to me and the level of competition is very high."

After winning last year in Suzuka, ROAL Motorsport aim for more with two cars

CHEVROLET BEGIN TESTING PROGRAMME IN SPAIN
The Chevrolet team set off for the 2012 season, when they will defend their second consecutive WTCC Drivers' and Manufacturers' title.
The Cruze racing car hit the track for the first time in a two-day testing session, on Tuesday and Wednesday, at Valencia's Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
Alain Menu was at the wheel of the test-car: "I haven't been driving a race car since Macau and is definitely very nice to be behind the wheel again! We were lucky to enjoy very good weather in Valencia and this allowed to take the maximum out of these two days. We achieved quite some mileage and performed the entire program foreseen. Basically, we tested a number of small evolutions, related to both the chassis and the engine, and everything went well."
RML Project Manager Ron Hartvelt added: "The data collected in Spain will be very helpful in our work towards signing off the 2012 specs of the Cruze."
The Chevrolet team will be again at Valencia early February, with two cars for Yvan Muller and Rob Huff.

Alan Menu tested the Chevrolet Cruze at Valencia on Tuesday and Wednesday

A BUSY START TO THE SEASON FOR ROB HUFFThe 2012 season has already kicked off in a busy way for 2011 WTCC vice-champion Rob Huff. The Chevrolet racer attended last week the launch of the Cruze turbo road car for Israel's press, that took place at Donington Park. Huff attended the press conference and then took the car through a gymkhana course to demonstrate and challenge the journalists. This weekend Huff will also appear at the Autosport International at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre, being available for interviews and autograph signings.

COUNTDOWN: - 58 DAYS
WTCC RACE OF ITALY - MONZA, 11 MARCH 2012


Fabio Ravaioli - FIA WTCC Media Delegate

Nissan will be competing in the ADAC GT Masters

Nissan will be competing in the ADAC GT Masters

The ADAC GT Masters gets into the 2012 season growth from the Far East. For the first time presents with Nissan and the GT-R supercar, a Japanese manufacturer of elite sports cars in the ADAC GT Masters. Nissan makes the tenth of April at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben starting brand new season for even more diversity in the "league of super sports cars."

Used the newly developed GT-R driven by Schulze Motorsport, the Nissan by brothers Michael (27) and Tobias Schulze (30). The Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 is adjacent to the McLaren MP4-12C and the Chevrolet Camaro in the 2012 season, the third newcomer to the ADAC GT Masters.

Schulze Motorsport increases with Nissan in the GT3 class in
Motorsport racing cars from Nissan Motorsport in Schulze tradition. After starting out in a variety of brand trophy was the team of family-dominated near Leipzig active with self-developed racing versions of the Nissan 350Z and Nissan GT-R in the past few years, especially in long distance races. With a Nissan GT-R Schulze motor sport with Tobias and Michael Schulze 2011 a class win at the ADAC Zurich 24h-managed race on the Nürburgring. "We are a family now already more than ten years been involved in motorsport and have a strong penchant for the Nissan GT-R," team boss Wolfram Schulze says about the background, with the Japanese super sports car in the ADAC GT Masters enter. "Therefore we, the decision was not difficult to start this year with the new Nissan GT-R, and the ADAC GT Masters offers an ideal platform."

Developed was the first Japanese sports cars in the GT3 class of JR Motorsports (JRM) in England in collaboration with Nissan Motorsport (Nismo) in Japan. JRM brings to the development of the GT-R best references. Sun won the British team, which also serve the Nissan GT3 customer teams, last year's drivers' title in the FIA ​​GT1 World Championship. Power-driven, the Japanese coupe from a 3.8-liter V6 engine with two turbochargers, delivers much more than 500 hp. "The Nissan has some bonds to the success in the World Championship GT1 car, although there are definite parallels to our self-developed GT-R, we have used on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife," said team boss Schulze, who during a long distance test in December had the opportunity to take the new Nissan extensively examined.

End of February comes the new Nissan GT-R
Schulze is proud to count this season to the first customer team from Nissan for the super athlete, because of GT-R is in its inaugural season still a rarity: "Nissan is planning initially with six cars, get one of them we", is Schulze full already anticipation. "JRM, 2011 who have already completed some testing duties with the GT-R, have assured us of an intensive care with the new Nissan." Wolfram Schulze is the end of February the first Japanese sports car for the inserts in the ADAC GT Masters at JRM pick up in England. "Then we will launch a test program in March. Not only the team must meet the new Nissan, including my two sons Tobias and Michael have to adjust after years on the long haul back to sprint races."

ADAC GT Masters Presse

ADAC GT Masters 2011 with a strong global media presence

ADAC GT Masters 2011 with a strong global media presence

The ADAC ​​GT Masters Championship saw a record starting field of 40 super sports car in the 2011 season, not only in Germany for a lot of attention. Internationally attracted the exciting races, which were attended by riders from 17 different nations, a lot of attention. It took the "league of super sports car" not only on the racetrack, but also set new records in the media.

For the first time global live TV pictures of the ADAC GT Masters
For the first time the ADAC ​​GT Masters Championship season in 2011 was seen live on TV worldwide. A total of eleven different TV channels beamed live or re-live broadcasts of the 16 races in 40 countries out. News, highlights and features around the ADAC GT Masters were twelve television stations broadcast in 72 countries. So had in 2011 a total of 1.93 billion TV viewers around the world to the exciting race of the ADAC GT Masters track.

Also in German-speaking television showed live coverage of the ADAC GT Masters a strong presence. Nearly 63 hours of television pictures from the ADAC GT Masters were broadcast on various TV channels, led by the live TV a cable exclusive partner in the German speaking countries. A cable advertised the live TV broadcasts, on average, more than 250 trailers per race weekend.

Vastly increased coverage in the print press
The great interest in the ADAC GT Masters is also reflected in the print press. Magazines and newspapers with a cumulative circulation of nearly 300 million copies reported in the 2011 season alone around the eight race weekends of the ADAC GT Masters.

The ADAC GT Masters 2012 starts at seven and ADAC Masters Weekend in the ADAC Truck Grand Prix at the Nurburgring for a total of 16 races. The eight events, each with two races are held on all permanent race tracks in Germany and on the Red Bull Ring in Austria and in Zandvoort, Netherlands, and are again shown live on television.

ADAC GT Masters Presse.

Ready to race: 7th Dunlop 24H DUBAI on Friday and Saturday

Ready to race: 7th Dunlop 24H DUBAI on Friday and Saturday
DUBAI (January 11th, 2012) – All the transport containers have been placed in the paddock of the Dubai Autodrome, all the drivers and team members are flying in from all over the world: this week, the 2012 motor racing season officially gets underway with the seventh running of the Dunlop 24H DUBAI, jointly organised by Dutch agency CREVENTIC and DNRT. Track action at the Dubai Autodrome starts on Wednesday with rent-a-car-rides and an optional test session. Free practice, qualifying and night practice are scheduled for Thursday while the race starts on Friday at 14.00 h local time (11.00 h CET) and finishes 24 hours later.
No less than 20 car brands will be present on the grid for this year‟s Dunlop 24H DUBAI, the first international endurance race of the year for GTs, touring cars and 24H specials. With 18 cars, Porsche has the largest contingent, closely followed by BMW with 16 entries. These two brands are also jointly on top of the winners‟ list of the Dunlop 24H DUBAI with three overall race wins each. Last year, German BMW team Schubert Motorsport claimed victory and they are back to defend their title under the „Saudi Falcons by Schubert‟ banner with a strong line-up that includes lady racer Claudia Hürtgen and Swede Edward Sandström, who were both in last year‟s winning team, as well as BMW works driver Jörg Müller and Saudi-Arabian drivers Abdulaziz Al Faisal and Faisal Binladen. Porsche is represented by a wealth of strong teams and various well-known drivers.
One year after the 24h race debut of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, there will be four sportscars with gullwing doors in Dubai, with five times‟ DTM champion Bernd Schneider racing for Heico Motorsport and two times Porsche Supercup winner Jeroen Bleekemolen driving for Black Falcon. Last year, Lamborghini teams showed a very strong performance in qualifying, locking out the front row of the grid for the 2011 Dunlop 24H Dubai. For this year‟s race, no less than five Lamborghinis have been entered. Nissan also has a strong presence, including the reigning FIA GT1 world champion, Michael Krumm, and one car with the first-ever all-gamer crew in a major race, all the drivers having emerged from the Nissan/PlayStation GT Academy program. Other sports car brands on the grid in Dubai include Aston Martin, Audi, Corvette, Ferrari, Ginetta, Lotus and Saker.
Based on the performance shown in previous years, good results can also be expected from the cars in the SP2 category like the Renault Mégane and GC silhouettes and the brawny DNRT V8 stock car, the NASCAR-style machine that will be racing in Dubai for the first time. The A5 class traditionally is the BMW domain while hot hatchbacks like Renault Clio, MINI and BMW 120 make up most of the A2 touring car category.
On Wednesday, January 11th, there is an optional private test from 13.30 till 17.30 h, followed by the welcome party in the paddock. On Thursday, January 12th, there are free practice sessions from 11.30 till 12.15 and 13.15 till 14.45 h. Qualifying is scheduled from 15.00 till 17.30 h with the first hour for all classes and then two separate heats of 30 minutes each for the smaller and the bigger categories. On Friday, January 13th, the action starts with warm-up from 10.30 till 11.00 h. The 24-
hour race starts at 14.00 h. This year‟s Dunlop 24H DUBAI will be covered by Motors TV and Radio Le Mans while live timing, live streaming and news can also be found at live.24hseries.com
Under the motto “Fighting cancer lap by lap”, money will again be raised during the Dunlop 24H DUBAI for the benefit of the KWF Dutch Cancer Society. Teams and drivers can enrol in a donation programme to support the good cause. Last year, a total donation of 15,000 Euros could be made to the Dutch Cancer Society after the Dunlop 24H DUBAI. Of course, the aim for this year is to exceed that amount.

Creventic/Gerrie Willems.

MRS starts into the season 2012!

24- hours of DUBAI, 13.-14.Jan.2012 10.01.2012

MRS starts into the season 2012!
Dubai. As in the last year, the MRS Team will also start into its racing season with the 24 hours race of Dubai, which is meanwhile established as permanent feature in the international GT racing scene. At the, a bit more than 5 Km`s track, 74 competitors will participate, within a lot of actual GT3 cars from manufacturers like Porsche, BMW, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Mercedes just to name a few. The MRS Team will compete consequently with an endurance car from Porsche, the “smurfblue” Porsche GT3 R, where the team had an amazing appearance, winning the ADAC GT Masters race at the Austrian Red Bull Ring as a guest starter last year.
Also regarding the drivers line-up, MRS decides to an established team. Among the MRS Supercup Pilot, William Langhorne (USA), also MRS Pilot Philipp Eng (Austria) will sit behind the wheel of the 500 hp strong GT3 R. Supported by the German driver Klaus Frers, which has experience from long distance races with a Porsche RSR and the German Erwin Stueckle, for whom is a 24 hours race a very new experience, even that he is familiar with Porsche racing cars because of competing at the Porsche Sportscup.
Karsten Molitor (Teamchef): „We`re happy that our winter break doesn’t took so long, as every year at Christmas we`re getting a bit nervous looking forward to the upcoming season. As we have shown at the last race here in Dubai, that we were very competitive even though we had a couple of technical problems, we`re confident to fight for the podium this year. We`re looking forward for the race start at Friday afternoon.”
The race starts at Friday, 13th of January 2pm (UAE time) and can be followed on the homepage of the organizer www.24hdubai.com .
At www.24hoursracing.com you can follow the start number 38 with GPS Data.
The race will be covered live on TV at „motors-TV“.

MRS Team.

SUCCESSFULL SHAKEDOWN FOR WTCC FORD FOCUS

SUCCESSFULL SHAKEDOWN FOR WTCC FORD FOCUS

The new WTCC Ford Focus successfully enjoyed its first shakedown at Ford's technical centre at Dunton, Essex in the UK, just before the Christmas break.
The racing car, based on the Global Ford Focus which took two victories in the 2011 British Touring Car Championship, was built by Team Aon that after clinching the BTCC Independent Teams' and Drivers' titles are now facing exciting new challenges in 2012.
With the first shakedown completed in full WTCC specs, with the 1.6L turbo engine and Yokohama tyres, the Ford Focus is now ready to go through additional tests in the wind tunnel, while work will also be completed on revised suspension components, ahead of an FIA technical inspection later this month.
Negotiations with drivers for the 2012 season are also well underway with the team hoping to make announcements in the near future.
The Team Aon car will next hit the track at the end of January with further tests in the UK, before an extensive test programme in Spain in early February.
"It has been very exciting to see the development of this new car," said driver Tom Chilton. "Of course we're already very familiar with the Focus, having won races with it in 2011, but there are certain elements which make the WTCC version a different challenge from a driver's perspective. We had our first proper shakedown with the car just before Christmas and hearing the new engine fire up was pretty exciting in itself! The engine was incredibly impressive even on its first run and I can't wait to see what else it can do when we get our full test programme underway. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, but it's great to have such a new challenge."
Team Principal Mike Earle added: "The team have been working very hard to get the new WTCC car together in time for testing. There are more restrictions on the WTCC car than there are on the BTCC version so we've had to change a few elements, and of course the tyres and engine are completely different. The shakedown went well and we're going to be using the majority of January to work on the car in the factory before getting our test programme fully underway on track."


Team Aon successfully completed the shakedown of the WTCC Ford Focus
FIRST TEAMS COMMITT TO THE 2012 ETC CUP
The first teams announced their commitment to the 2012 FIA European Touring Car Cup that will be held on four race meetings, three of them coinciding with the World Touring Car Championship events at Monza (11 March), Valencia (1st April) and Salzburgring (20 May).
The series will be concluded by a standalone event at Imola (24 June).
Switzerland-based Maurer Motorsport announced they will run a couple of Chevrolet Aveo cars in the Super 1600 class for young Russian drivers Alexander Frolov (21 years old) and Vadim Meshcheryakov (19 years old) who were both crowned champions of the 2011 Russian Touring Car Championship in the Touring and the National class respectively.
The 34-year old Czech driver Petr Fulín (a race winner in the German SEAT Supercópa and the Abarth 500 European Trophy) also announced his plans to take part in the European Cup at the wheel of a Super 2000 BMW 320si car run by the Autonagy team.

COUNTDOWN: - 65 DAYS
WTCC RACE OF ITALY - MONZA, 11 MARCH 2012

Fabio Ravaioli - FIA WTCC Media Delegate

Our race Calender 2012 is Ready!!!

Our race calender 2012 is ready, this races we are going to participate and still seats available / also ask for our special test days / best TV Broadcasting in Motorsport / contact us!!

PORSCHE MOBIL1 SUPER CUP (Support race of Formula 1).
April 20-22 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix (Sakhir)
May 11-13 Gran Premio De Espana Santander (Catalunya)
May 24-27 Grand Prix de Monaco (Monte Carlo)
June 22-24 Grand Prix of Europe (Valencia)
July 06-08 Santander British Grand Prix (Silverstone)
July 20-22 Grosser Preis Santander Von Deutschland (Hockenheim)
July 27-29 Eni Magyar Nagydij (Budapest). Aug 31-Sept 02 Shell Belgian Grand Prix (Spa-Francorchamps)
September 07-09 Gran Premio Santander D’Italia (Monza)

PORSCHE CARRERA CUP GERMANY (Support race of the DTM)
April 29 Hockenheim Baden-Wurttemberg
May 06 Lausitzring
May 20 Brands Hatch, UK
June 03 Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Austria
July 01 Norisring
August 19 Nurburgring
August 26 Circuit Park Zandvoort, Netherlands
September 16 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben
September 30 Valencia, Spain
October 21 Hockenheim Baden-Wurttemberg

PORSCHE SUPER SPORT CUP
Nürburgring 12./13.05.2012
Hockenheim 02./03.06.2012
Red Bull Ring 07./08.07.2012
Spa-Francorchamps 04./05.08.2012
Oschersleben 01./02.09.2012
Hockenheim 06./07.10.2012

GT MASTERS
1. April 01 Oschersleben
2. May 04-06 Zandvoort, Netherlands
3. June 08-10 Sachsenring
4. July 13-15 Nurburgring (ADAC Truck GP)
5. August 10-12 Red Bull Ring, Austria
6. Aug 31-Sep 02 EuroSpeedway
7. September 14-16 Nurburgring (GP Strecke)
8. October 05-07 Hockenheimring
Rd1 and 2 dates differ between ADAC website and FIA calendar

FIA GT3 CHAMPIONSHIP
1. April 08 Nogaro, France
2. April 22 Zolder, Belgium
3. May 27 Navarra, Spain
4. July 08 Algarve, Portugal
5. September 16 Moscow, Russia
6. October 07 Zandvoort, Netherlands
7. TBA TBA

BLANCPAIN ENDURANCE SERIES
1. April 13-15 Monza, Italy
2. June 01-03 Silverstone, Great Britain
3. June 29-July 01 Paul Ricard, France
4. July 26-29 Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
5. September 21-23 Nurburgring or Hockenheim, Germany
6. October xx-xx Motorland Aragon, Spain
The Blancpain Revival Series also runs 5 events at all but Spa-Francorchamps 24 Hours.

VLN – NURBURGRING
Round 1: 31 March
Round 2: 14 April
Round 3: 28 April
Round 4: 23 June
Round 5: 7 July
Round 6: 21 July
Round 7: 4 August (6 Hours of Ruhr)
Round 8: 25 August
Round 9: 29 September
Round 10: 27 October ( Münsterland CUP )

24 HOUR RACES
24 Hour Dubai –January
24 Hour Nurburgring 17 – 20 Mayo
24 Hour Le Mans 16 – 17 June
24 Hour Spa 26 – 29 July


This races we will be like acreditated press international.

LE MANS SERIES
March 09-10 Offical Test
1. March 30-Apr 01 6 Hours of Le Castellet, France
2. May 18-20 6 Hours of Zolder, Belgium
3. July 13-15 6 Hours of Donington, UK
4. September 07-09 6 Hours of Brno, Czech Republic
5. November 02-04 6 Hours of Algarve, Portugal

WTCC
1. March 11 Monza, Italy
2. April 01 Valencia, Spain
3. April 15 Marrakech, Morocco
4. April 29 TBA
5. May 06 Hungaroring, Hungary
6. May 20 Salzburgring, Austria
7. June 03 Estoril, Portugal
8. July 22 Curitiba, Brazil
9. September 23 Infineon Raceway, USA
10. October 21 Suzuka, Japan
11. November 04 Shanghai, China
12. November 18 Macau

DTM
1. April 29 Hockenheim Baden-Wurttemberg
2. May 06 Lausitzring
3. May 20 Brands Hatch, UK
4. June 03 Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Austria
5. July 01 Norisring
NC. July 15 Show-Event Olympiastadion Munchen
6. August 19 Nurburgring
7. August 26 Circuit Park Zandvoort, Netherlands
8. September 16 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben
9. September 30 Valencia, Spain
10. October 21 Hockenheim Baden-Wurttemberg

FIA GT1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1. April 08 Nogaro, France
2. April 22 Zolder, Belgium
3. May 27 Navarra, Spain
4. July 08 Algarve, Portugal
5. August 26 TBC, Beijing, China
6. September 02 Ordos, China
7. September 16 Moscow, Russia
8. October 07 Zandvoort, Netherlands
9. November 25 San Luis, Argentina
C10. TBA TBA