FIA GT3: Prospeed Competition and Belgian Audi Club excluded from results

PAUL VAN SPLUNTEREN (NDL) - MARCO HOLZER (DEU) / PORSCHE 911 GT3 R N61 TEAM PROSPEED COMPETITION

The appeals of both teams are still to be heard, but as it stands both have given zero points for the final round at Zolder. Each had parts that didn’t comply with the homologation form. This is huge as it changes the Team Championship outcome and gives the win to Callaway Competition.

A race win for Paul van Splunteren and Marco Holzer in the final round of the 2010 FIA GT3 European Championship seemed to have secured the Team Championship for Prospeed Competition but post race checks found that the rear disks of the Porsche were under the homologated weight and they were excluded from the results.

Second place in the race went to the Hexis AMR Aston Martin DBRS9 of Frederic Makowiecki and Manuel Rodrigues, the second podium of the season for the 2009 Team Champions, which has provisionally become a race win with the exclusion of the nr61 Porsche. The Belgian Audi Club Audi R8 of Enzo Ide and Greg Franchi clinched the final podium position in what was only the seventh competitive car race for Ide. However the Audi also failed post race technical checks for having master cylinders and disks that didn’t comply with the homologation form and was also excluded from the result.

With cars 61 and 27 excluded from the result the nr77 Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport BMW Z4 of Claudia Huertgen and Csaba Walter is classified in second place behind the nr1 Hexis AMR Aston Martin of Rodrigues and Makowiecki, with the nr60 Prospeed Competition Porsche of Petri Lappalainen and Markus Palttala in third. The result of round 12 and championship positions remain provisional subject to the outstanding appeals, lodged by Prospeed Competition and Belgian Audi Club, being heard by the International Court of Appeal (ICA).

Race 2 Result
Pos	Car	Class	Drivers	Car	Time	Laps	Gap	Avg speed
1	1	GT3	Rodrigues/Makowiecki	Aston Martin DBRS9	1:00:13.043	37	0	0
2	77	GT3	Walter/Hürtgen	BMW Z4	1:00:17.095	37	4.052	0
3	60	GT3	Lappalainen/Palttala	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1:00:18.111	37	5.068	0
4	76	GT3	Söderlund/Sandström	BMW Z4	1:00:21.070	37	8.027	0
5	14	GT3	Eskelinen/Nygaard	Ford GT	1:00:27.442	37	14.399	0
6	11	GT3	Vannelet/Narac	Porsche 911 GT3 R	1:00:40.625	37	27.582	0
7	23	GT3	Brown/Bell	Audi R8 LMS	1:00:54.464	37	41.421	0
8	5	GT3	Hirschi/Guilvert	Audi R8 LMS	1:01:09.208	37	56.165	0
9	22	GT3	Patterson/Guasch	Audi R8 LMS	1:01:15.804	37	01:02.761	0
10	16	GT3	Lambotte/Parisy	Corvette Z06R GT3	1:01:24.758	37	01:11.715	0
11	2	GT3	Paillard/Accary	Aston Martin DBRS9	1:01:31.880	37	01:18.837	0
12	17	GT3	Vincent/Peyroles	Corvette Z06R GT3	1:01:48.605	37	01:35.562	0
13	30	GT3	Teregulov/Romanov	Ascari KZ1R GT3	1:00:20.874	36	1 lap	1
14	6	GT3	Demay/Lorgere-Roux	Audi R8 LMS	0:57:36.229	35	2 laps	2
15	101	GT3	Hohenadel/Keilwitz	Corvette Z06R GT3	0:51:41.231	31	6 laps	6
16	98	GT3	Beche/De Doncker	Ford GT	0:46:35.437	28	9 laps	9
17	12	GT3	Thiry/Fumal	Porsche 911 GT3 R	0:44:30.107	27	10 laps	10
18	99	GT3	Lesoudier/Martin	Ford GT	0:50:21.775	27	10 laps	10
19	100	GT3	Ritskes/van Oranje	Corvette Z06R GT3	0:48:49.236	26	11 laps	11
20	3	GT3	Lemeret/Heyer	Audi R8 LMS	0:38:10.861	8	18 laps	29
21	87	GT3	Dockerill/Ferrier	Ferrari 430 Scuderia	0:02:34.077	1	36 laps	36

Session Notes
Weather	Sunny
Track conditions	Dry
Stewards Decisions	following the stewards decision no. 15 30s penalty for the car no. 16
Notes	Exclusion of cars n° 61 and n° 27, subject to the results of the appeal to the ICA

2010 FIA GT3 Teams Championship

			Rounds
Pos	Name	Nat.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	CALLAWAY COMPETITION			25	18	15	18	12	26	27	18	29	4		192
2	NEED FOR SPEED BY SCHUBERT MOTORSPORT		12	14		4	4	31	22	12	10	8	37	30	184
3	PROSPEED COMPETITION		8	1		18	10	26	8	21	27	20	26	15	180
4	GRAFF RACING				37	25	2	2	18	18			6	2	110
5	ARGO RACING		28	12	16	24			6	10					96
6	HEXIS AMR			26	18	12						10		26	92
7	MUEHLNER MOTORSPORT		16					10	15	8	8	6	10	10	83
8	TEAM ROSBERG		4				33		4		15				56
9	SAINTELOC-PHOENIX RACING		8	6	2	2		15		1	12		1	6	53
10	TRACKSPEED		25	15		1									41
11	UNITED AUTOSPORTS						1	1			4	15	2	12	35
12	CHAD RACING				4		21				7				32
13	BLACK FALCON			2	6		12	4	2	4					30
14	MARC VDS RACING TEAM											13	15		28