Zolder 24hrs,22-23 August.

GTfour · 17 Jul 2009, 18:15 (Ref:2503438)

Anyone know were to find an entrylist of this race? I'm gonna visit it this year for the first time and basically know very little about it.

gino · 17 Jul 2009, 18:21 (Ref:2503440)

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Originally Posted by GTfour

Anyone know were to find an entrylist of this race? I'm gonna visit it this year for the first time and basically know very little about it.

Hm, the website has no infos about the race this year:

http://www.24u.be/

tatounet · 17 Jul 2009, 19:42 (Ref:2503472)

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Originally Posted by GTfour

Anyone know were to find an entrylist of this race? I'm gonna visit it this year for the first time and basically know very little about it.

This year it will be open to :
Belgian Gt (Gt3)
Belgian Touring Car Series silhouete + touring cars
Dunlop Sport Maxx Endurance Cup ( must use michelin tyres !!! )

Except GT1 and GT2 car

Last year only 27 cars at the start ... this year +- 40 expected

Now the focus is on the Spa 24h ... more info the week after

Speed-King · 17 Jul 2009, 23:05 (Ref:2503586)

No list but an article that mentions a lot of probables: Click here(it's in French, though)

I've read (specualtions) about a few more this week...

Rumor has it, there will be two Oreca Vipers and Cor Euser with his Marcos.
Can't wait for it, as it will be my fist 24hour race I see live at the track!

GTfour · 18 Jul 2009, 09:18 (Ref:2503703)

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Originally Posted by Speed-King

No list but an article that mentions a lot of probables: Click here(it's in French, though)

I've read (specualtions) about a few more this week...

Rumor has it, there will be two Oreca Vipers and Cor Euser with his Marcos.
Can't wait for it, as it will be my fist 24hour race I see live at the track!

Really? Wow,that means you're in for a treat,mate! Especially the circuit of Zolder is very good for spectating a race for it is all within 10 minutes walking distance and I'm allready lookin forward to seeing over forty cars battling it out at this short and demanding track.

Speed-King · 18 Jul 2009, 10:22 (Ref:2503733)

I sure hope so. Looks like they've made an important step towards the original Belcar-spirit this year and away from Ratel's emasculated GT3-version of it - I am already wondering what 2010 will bring, I hope they'll return to the old 125 minutes race format for the regular rounds and a 4-6hr race at the Spa Euro Race.

Gingers4Justice · 20 Jul 2009, 16:52 (Ref:2504977)

Will any highlights hit British TV screens?

AndrewF31 · 29 Jul 2009, 20:39 (Ref:2511167)

Nice to see Cor Euser up there with a Marcos even.

cmk · 29 Jul 2009, 21:01 (Ref:2511178)

Some very fun and interesting cars on there from some old-school competitors like Prospeed and AD Sport who were rather left behind by the GT3 era. The entry for that, the 'premiere', class, is disappointing. 10 cars max?!

Speed-King · 31 Jul 2009, 11:38 (Ref:2512352)

There was an open test day at Zolder yesterday and teams usually use those as a preparation for the 24hours.

Pictures can be found here

There's a number of GT4 cars in those pics. As the European GT4 series is a support series of the 24hrs, I guess these cars are probably not testing for the 24 but for their championship races.
And we can of course also rule out the F3-car, the 935 and that black Can-Am-ish machine.

Speed-King · 2 Aug 2009, 19:37 (Ref:2514126)

Website has been updated, entrylist has been posted, but so far no cars on it.

I expect this to change during the week, as there's a memo on the Dunlop Endurance Cup website, that says that teams have to order tires for the race until the 5th.

cmk · 3 Aug 2009, 21:43 (Ref:2514992)

Wish that Mclaren Can-Am car was running!

Mr Pink · 5 Aug 2009, 08:56 (Ref:2515976)

Kuismanen is apparently partnering up with Duncan Huisman, Erik Behrens and Karl Hansenbichler for this race.

Speed-King · 5 Aug 2009, 10:29 (Ref:2516035)

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Originally Posted by Mr Pink

Kuismanen is apparently partnering up with Duncan Huisman, Erik Behrens and Karl Hansenbichler for this race.

...in the Viper!

FWX · 5 Aug 2009, 17:41 (Ref:2516261)

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Originally Posted by Speed-King

...in the Viper!

A GTS-R or CC?

Edit: Just seen on the link that it's a GTS-R. Great stuff!

Speed-King · 5 Aug 2009, 18:24 (Ref:2516294)

Another Viper GTS-R has been added for AD Sport, as well as a second (the first being from Prospeed) 996 RSR for MPM by Verbist!

Sounds good!

cmk · 6 Aug 2009, 01:26 (Ref:2516543)

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Originally Posted by Speed-King

...in the Viper!

Fun and old-school, but probably a waste of Duncan Huisman, and Matech proved at Spa that the Ford GT can be a 24-hour car if you leave it with the pros and don't let Swiss journalists drive it off the road.

AndrewF31 · 16 Aug 2009, 10:02 (Ref:2522249)

The hiatus in FIA GT in August is helping the entry list a bit but it seems more of a Belgian/Dutch affair mostly with a few Germans thrown in. Can't expect much with our current economic situation.

The classes remind me of the Nurburgring 24 hours. The cars go up to GT3-equivalent? But then there's a few Viper GTS-Rs

Speed-King · 16 Aug 2009, 10:20 (Ref:2522260)

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Originally Posted by AndrewF31

The hiatus in FIA GT in August is helping the entry list a bit but it seems more of a Belgian/Dutch affair mostly with a few Germans thrown in. Can't expect much with our current economic situation.

The classes remind me of the Nurburgring 24 hours. The cars go up to GT3-equivalent? But then there's a few Viper GTS-Rs

OK, I'l try to explain it - and this will probably include another of my anti-GT3-rants - but anyway:
Belgian GT, or Belcar as it was known until a few years ago, was quite a disaster this year and already in a bit of trouble the year before. The GT3-rules had brought the series some good competition in the first two years, but they had failed to produce the 40+ car fields the series had been known for before and afaik spectator numbers had also declined. Earlier this year SRO sold the rights to promote the series to the organizers of the rival Dunlop Endurance Cup (A series with mixed GT and Touring Car fields) and the Belgian Touring Car Series.
For next year their plan is to have but one series for touring cars and GTs, each with an "Open" philosophy. But as a stop gap for the 24hours, which would've otherwise looked at at 20 car field they decided to open the race for cars from all classes of the three series. And that's why there are all those classes and vastly different cars. Some classes have no cars in them, though, so it's not really a 12 class race.

For another forum, using displacement and laptimes as criteria, I organized the cars into 6 classes, i.e. the system Belcar used before 2000:

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Entrylist Oldschool
GT1 (3)

Kuismanen Competition*
Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Divisie 4F – Klasse 1)

AD Sport (#14)
Chrysler Viper GTS-R (Divisie 4F – Klasse 1)

AD Sport (#TBN)
Porsche 996 Biturbo (Divisie 4F – Klasse 1)

GT2 (13)
(#60)ProSpeed Competition
Porsche 911 GT3 RS (Divisie 4G – Klasse 2) *

McDonald's Racing Team (#217)
Porsche 996 GT3 RS ()

MPM Racing by Verbist (#TBN)
Porsche 996 GT3 RSR (TBN)

Scuderia Monza (#2)
Dodge Viper Competition Coupé (Divisie I)

Delahaye Francorchamps Motors Racing Team (#3)
Ferrari F430 GT3 (Divisie I)

KRK Racing (#4)
Dodge Viper Competition Coupé (Divisie I) *

JD by KS Motorsport (#5)
Lamborghini Gallardo (Divisie I)

VDS Racing Adventures (#16)
Ford Mustang FR500 GT3 (Divisie I)

First Motorsport (#50)
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S (Divisie I) *

Accent Racing Team (#69)
Dodge Viper Competition Coupé (Divisie I)

Topcats Racing (#TBN)
Mosler MT 900 (TBN)

Cor Euser (#TBN)
Marcos Mantis (TBN)

Speedlover (#TBN)
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup (TBN)

GT3 (3)

AD Sport (#TBN)
Porsche 964 (Divisie 4G – Klasse 2)

VDS Racing Adventures (#117)
Mustang GT4 (Divisie II)

First Motorsport (#150)
Porsche 997 GT4 (Divisie II)

T1 (4)
Delahaye Racing (#6)
Renault Mégane Trophy (Divisie 4A – Klasse S1) *

Equipe Verschuur (#11)
Renault Mégane Trophy (TBN)

KS Motorsport (#21)
BMW M3 Silhouette (Divisie 4A – Klasse S1) *

KS Motorsport (#22)
BMW M3 Silhouette (Divisie 4A – Klasse S1) *

T2 (6)

Moore International Motorsport (#7)
BMW M3 GTR (Divisie 4H – Klasse 3)

MTE Racing (#23)
Opel Astra Silhouette (Divisie 4B – Klasse S2)

Ostend Racing (#33)
BMW M3 GT (TBN)

Signa Motorsport (#TBN)
Seat Leon Cupra (Divisie 4D – Klasse T3)

Recy Racing Team (#TBN)
BMW 120 Diesel (Divisie 4H – Klasse 3)

Cor Euser (#TBN)
BMW 120 Diesel (TBN)

T3 (3)

BRV (#TBN)
Renault Clio (TBN)

Gabriël Racing (#TBN)
Renault Clio (TBN)

Rudolph Racing (#TBN)
Renault Clio (TBN)

Speed-King · 17 Aug 2009, 11:29 (Ref:2522906)

Only 29 cars on the entry list now. The Euser Marcos and BMW are gone, as is the AD Porsche 964

AndrewF31 · 17 Aug 2009, 17:46 (Ref:2523139)

Thanks for the explanation. A bit easier to understand now!

Shame about the Marcos. It's a tale of survival this season everywhere. And it's still good to see quite a few entries at the different races. Bolds well for when the economy recovers.

rich07 · 18 Aug 2009, 02:29 (Ref:2523420)

No Marcos

, thats a shame.

Gingers4Justice · 18 Aug 2009, 21:20 (Ref:2523983)

Looking at this entry list, it looks very similar to Britcar 24hr, which will be back on next year. They could boost quality and entry, surely, by having a strong link between the two?

Speed-King · 19 Aug 2009, 14:23 (Ref:2524412)

First practise is underway - there seems to be no regular HTML/Java/Flash-T&S, but you can download a Timing Client here,
Suppossedly the same as used by the teams.

23 cars have already turned a lap, let's see how many it'll be at the end of the session.

AndrewF31 · 19 Aug 2009, 19:10 (Ref:2524548)

The Opel Astra in GT format looks rather funny. I thought the Scirocco at the N24 was funny. The Astra beats it.

Nice to see those bulky Vipers driving around still.

And the Ford Mustang is really nice: http://www.24u.be/picture_gallery/2/180/20.jpg

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