RACE 1 - WATKINS GLEN - Blancpain GT World Challenge America 2019
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Published 2019-08-31
This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the chance to compete in worldwide customer racing and measure the success of their achievements on a truly global scale.
Each series will retain its present status as an individual championship and will be known as Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe, Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia and Blancpain GT World Challenge America.
Drawing inspiration from the concept successfully pioneered in the Intercontinental GT Challenge, where manufacturers compete through local teams, each GT3 manufacturer will be able to establish a line-up of 12 drivers who will score points for their brand in the overall Blancpain GT World Challenge.
They will be split across the three continental sprint series, with four competing in the GT World Challenge Europe, four in the GT World Challenge America and four in the GT World Challenge Asia.
To fully integrate all classes of driver, each group must include a star (classified as Platinum); a good professional (classified Gold); an up-and-coming driver or a very experienced non-professional (classified Silver); and a Gentleman driver or former star (classified Bronze).
With major manufacturers striving to demonstrate their excellence in the competitive arena of international customer racing, the new Blancpain GT World Challenge will take on-track competition to a new level in 2019 and beyond.
All Comments (18)
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Was here camping all weekend, can't believe more people don't come out for this! Was an awesome weekend of racing!!
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I love this track even Road America, COTA, Lime Rock and Laguna Seca
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I gotta say, those big ol Bentley’s do look proper cool.👌👌👌
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Let´s say I play Watkins in PCARS 2 as much as I love watching the real thing, in VR I would say it is one of the most exhilarating things ever, anyone who tried to finish a 2 hour race in VR knows what I am talking about.
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Love the in car commentary!!
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I’m ok with low GT3 count. But they should take a cue from British GT and run GT4 alongside the premier class like they used to a few years ago.
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Those straight cut gears sound so good.
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31:09 Turn 9 does have an uphill braking zone, so you can brake late with the compression you get. BUT, it flattens out if you go too deep, so if you brake too far into turn 9, you lose all your grip. That’s what happened. I’ve learned it the hard way too 😉
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I do like the British commentators way more! Lovely series, still!
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Thanks for the upload. 🤗
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So many questions about this type of racing. Just discovered British GT racing and have enjoyed watching stodgy Bentleys take it to Lamborghinis, McLarens, and Aston-Martins, although I do not understand how a front-engine car can be at all competitive with rear-engine ones. (Ditto how a pedestrian Mustang can compete with lesser McLarens and that Audi R-8, with Porsche not even a factor in GT-4). British GT racing led me to THIS series, and I watched The 'Ring from 2019 with Lamborghini leading the way with only a pair of Ferraris who were back-markers the entire race. Yet, the series comes to THIS side of the Pond where there are a plethora of Ferraris and Porsches, but no Lambos. Can someone help this life-time motor-head make any sense of all this? Grazie.
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please more volume to cars less volume to comments thanks
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Pertamina 🇲🇨
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nice
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Race start 10 mins 40 secs🏁
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Can't stand these commentators so I never watch the American races in this series. The older guy is far too robotic and lifeless, the other guy... His accent and voice is just horrible. The commentary is far too loud too.
