Paul Ricard com pista cheia no Blancpain Endurance Series

RIO DE JANEIRO – Numa prévia do que deve vir por aí nas 24 Horas de Spa-Francorchamps, a 3ª etapa do Blancpain Endurance Series, marcada para este domingo no circuito de Paul Ricard, em Le Castellet, tem mais um grid sensacional. São 61 carros confirmados para a etapa francesa, com três horas de duração.

Líder do campeonato com 33 pontos, Cesar Ramos e seus parceiros Davide Rigon e Daniel Zampieri terão a missão de manter a ponta da tabela com a Ferrari F458 GT3 da equipe suíça Kessel Racing. Eles têm seis pontos de vantagem para o trio da Audi formado por Frank Stippler/Christopher Mies/Edward Sandström.

Três formações lideram na Pro-Am com 33 pontos também: os franceses Henry Hassid/Ludovic Badey, da TDS Racing; Andrea Bertolini/Niek Hommerson/Louis Machiels, da AF Corse e Lucas Ordoñez/Alex Buncombe, da RJN Motorsport, equipe onde trabalha o brasileiro Ricardo Divila. É nessa categoria também que está o gaúcho Carlos Kray, da Molitor Racing Systems, contudo sem ter pontuado ainda no ano.

Na Gentlemen Trophy, os franceses Jean-Luc Blanchemain/Jean-Luc Béaubelique/Patrice Goueslard comandam a pontuação com 37 pontos, oito à frente de Ahmad Al Harty/Miro Konopka e onze adiante de Maurice Ricci/Mike Sawary/Gabriel Balthazard.

O total de inscritos contempla 22 carros na Pro Cup, 24 na Pro-Am Cup e treze na Gentlemen Trophy. Confira quem são:

PRO CUP

#1 BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT BEL
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Stéphane Ortelli/Laurens Vanthoor/René Rast

#2 BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT BEL
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Rahel Frey/Matt Halliday/Niki Mayr-Melnhof

#3 MARC VDS RACING TEAM BEL
BMW Z4 GT3
Bas Leinders/Maxime Martin/Yelmer Buurman

#4 MARC VDS RACING TEAM BEL
BMW Z4 GT3
Markus Palttala/Henri Moser/Andrea Piccini

#6 PHOENIX RACING DEU
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Oliver Jarvis/Christopher Haase/Harold Primat

#7 HEXIS RACING FRA
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Álvaro Parente/Alexander Sims/Stef Dusseldorp

#11 ART GRAND PRIX FRA
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Mike Parisy/Antoine Léclerc/Andy Soucek

#13 BELGIAN AUDI CLUB TEAM WRT BEL
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Frank Stippler/Christopher Mies/Edward Sändström

#16 PHOENIX RACING BEL
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Enzo Ide/Anthony Kumpen/Markus Winkelhock

#23 JRM RACING GBR
Nissan GT-R Nismo
Lucas Luhr/Peter Dumbreck/Steven Kane

#26 VITA4ONE RACING TEAM DEU
BMW Z4 GT3
Frank Kechele/Grégory Franchi/Stefano Colombo

#36 SPEEDCAR FRA
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Dino Lunardi/Vincent Abril/Andrea Pizzitola

#40 SAINTÉLOC RACING FRA
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Christian Mamerow/Grégory Gulivert/Alexander Müller

#44 KESSEL RACING CHE
Ferrari F458 GT3
César Ramos/Daniel Zampieri/Davide Rigon

#69 GULF RACING UK GBR
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Nico Verdonck/Rob Bell/Adam Carroll

#70 SMP RACING RUS
Ferrari F458 GT3
Aleksey Basov/Alessandro Pier Guidi/Aliaksandr Skryabin

#71 SMP RACING RUS
Ferrari F458 GT3
Viktor Shaitar/Mikhail Aleshin/Kyrill Ladygin

#75 PROSPEED COMPETITION BEL
Porsche 911 (997) GT3-R
Marc Hennerici/Xavier Maassen/Maxime Soulet

#83 SMG CHALLENGE FRA
Porsche 911 (997) GT3-R
Nicolas Armindo/Olivier Pla/Eric Clément

#84 HTP MOTORSPORT CZE
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Maximilian Bukh/Alon Day/Luca Ludwig

#111 KESSEL RACING CHE
Ferrari F458 GT3
Francesco Castellacci/Giacomo Petrobelli/Andrea Ceccato

#125 BLANCPAIN RACING DEU
Lamborghini Gallardo LP600 FL2
Stefan Rosina/Albert Von Thurn Und Taxis/Eugenio Amos

PRO-AM CUP

#5 BOUTSEN GINION RACING BEL
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
David Dermont/Koen Wauters/Fréderic Vervisch

#8 HARIBO RACING TEAM DEU
Porsche 911 (997) GT3-R
Emmanuel Collard/Hans-Guido Riegel/Mike Stursberg

#9 GULF RACING UK GBR
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Mike Wainwright/Andy Meyrick

#12 ART GRAND PRIX FRA
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Grégoire Demoustier/Gilles Vannelet/Yann Goudy

#17 INSIGHT RACING WITH FLEX-BOX USA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Martin Jensen/Dennis Andersen

#18 BLACK FALCON DEU
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Klaas Hummel/Steve Jans/Adam Christodoulou

#19 BLACK FALCON DEU
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Duncan Tappy/Andrii Lebed/Oliver Morley

#22 TEAM PRECI-SPARK GBR
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
David Jones/Godfrey Jones/Morgan Jones

#24 BLANCPAIN REITER DEU
Lamborghini Gallardo FL2
Marc A. Hayek/Peter Kox

#25 TDS RACING FRA
BMW Z4 GT3
Ludovic Badey/Henry Hassid

#32 NISSAN ACADEMY TEAM RJN GBR
Nissan GT-R GT3
Alex Buncombe/Steve Doherty/Mark Shulzhitskiy

#34 PRO GT BY ALMERAS FRA
Porsche 911 (997) GT3-R
Franck Perera/David Dermont

#35 NISSAN ACADEMY TEAM RJN GBR
Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
Peter Pyzera/Lucas Ordoñez/Wolfgang Reip

#42 SAINTÉLOC RACING FRA
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
David Hallyday/Ronnie Latinne/Romain Monti

#43 ROAL MOTORSPORT ITA
BMW Z4 GT3
Thomas Biagi/Michela Cerrutti/Stefano Comandini

#50 AF CORSE ITA
Ferrari F458 Italia
Niek Hommerson/Louis Machiels/Andrea Bertolini

#62 FORTEC MOTORSPORTS GBR
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Stephen Jelley/Andrew Danyliw

#72 SMP RACING RUS
Ferrari F458 GT3
Boris Rotemberg/Sergey Zlobin/Maurizio Mediani

#73 SMP RACING RUS
Ferrari F458 GT3
Yuri Evgstineev/Aleksandr Frolov/David Markozov

#77 MOLITOR RACING SYSTEMS DEU
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Carlos Kray/Philipp Eng/Justino Azcarate

#78 GRÄSSER RACING TEAM AUT
Lamborghini Gallardo LP600
Göttfried Grässer/Gerhard Tweraser/Hari Proczyk

#88 VON RYAN RACING GBR
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Jordan Klaus Grogor/Rob Barff/Leon Price

#99 BEECHDEAN ASTON MARTIN RACING GBR
Aston Martin Vantage V12 GT3
Andrew Howard/Jonny Adam/Daniel McKenzie

#116 TEAM SOFREV-ASP FRA
Ferrari F458 Italia
Gérard Tonelli/Fabién Barthez/Morgan Moulin-Traffort

#123 TEAM UKRAINE UKR
Ferrari F458 Italia
Ruslan Tsyplakov/Raffaele Gianmaria/Andrii Kruglik

#230 JRM RACING GBR
Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
Matt Bell/Humaid Al Masaood/Charles Bateman

#555 JMB RACING MCO
Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3
Nicolas Misslin/Jody Fannin

GENTLEMEN TROPHY

#10 TEAM SOFREV-ASP FRA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Gabriel Balthazard/Jerôme Policand/Maurice Ricci

#15 BOUTSEN GINION RACING BEL
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Karim Ojjeh/Marlene Broggi/Laurent Pasquali

#20 TEAM SOFREV-ASP FRA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Jean-Luc Beaubélique/Jean-Luc Blanchemain/Patrice Goueslard

#33 PRO GT BY ALMERAS FRA
Porsche 911 (997) GT3 R
Christian Blugeon/Cédric Mezart/Stéphane Wintenberger

#41 SAINTÉLOC RACING FRA
Audi R8 LMS Ultra
Pierre Hirschi/Claude-Yves Gosselin/Marc Sourd

#49 AF CORSE ITA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Yannick Mallegol/Jean-Marc Bachellier/Howard Blank

#51 AF CORSE ITA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Filipe Barreiros/Francisco Guedes/Peter Mann

#52 SPORT GARAGE FRA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Luc Paillard/Lionel Comolle/Bruce Lorgere Roux

#53 SPORT GARAGE FRA
Ferrari F458 GT3
Georges Cabanne/Leonardo Gorrini/Romain Brandela

#55 MTECH GBR
Ferrari F458 Italia
Fabian Taraborelli/Jake Rattenbury/Diego Menendez

#58 DELAHAYE RACING FRA
Porsche 911 (997) GT3 R
Christian Kelders/Daniel Desbruéres

#66 ARC BRATISLAVA SVK
Porsche 911 (997) GT3 R
Miro Konopka/Ahmad Al Harty

#76 MOLITOR RACING SERVICES DEU
McLaren MP4-12C GT3
Gaetano Ardagna Pérez/Pablo Paladino/Paolo Andreasi