Superstars International Series 2012

[Wheels of Fire]

this should be the livery for Solaris Motorsport's Lumina:

[Wheels of Fire]

Solaris Motorsport Team prepares the debut in SUPERSTARS SERIES

The Italy-swiss Team works incessantly in its headquarter for the preparation of the Chevrolet Lumina Evo 2012
The staff of the team is focusing on two very important aspects, the technical side and the graphics and advertising aspects.
From the technical point of view the goal is to optimize the package of gearbox/differential and the preparation of the powerful American V8; for graphics and advertising Solaris gave great importance to the new color of the cars, made particularly attractive by the use of gold Chevrolet approached to the asphalt grey.
For this new adventure the team has also decided to be enriched by a member of proven experience that can help them in achieving the objectives.
We're talking about Matteo Lacerenza with a past in F1, DTM, WTCC, Auto GP, Superleague: Matteo will be one of the chief mechanic and will also be responsible for logistics and optimization of all team activities.

Cristian Grasso (team manager): "We are working hard to be in the best possible conditions at Monza on the first race of 1 April.
Our plan is to be on track in some private test sessions in early 2012 in order to test all the new parts we are applying on the Lumina, and subsequently participate in the collective test in mid-March, in which we shall present the cars in the final version. "

The first test of new cars are expected in the first week of Febraury, during which time the team will work to define the remaining two seats of Lumina (already known that 1 car will driven by Francesco Sini) and are already tight on negotiations with drivers, both rookies and some important international names.

[Matt]

I wish they'd give these things a little bit more power, and makes the races an hour long.

Plus, World Championship. This is what WTCC should be, cars like this.

[Wheels of Fire]

BMW Italia has sold its BMW M3 E92 to Team Dinamic;this new project,started by team manager Maurizio Lusuardi,will have the technical support of ROAL Motorsport.Thomas Biagi is the first driver signed.

[Wheels of Fire]

W&D Racing Team will enter in the series with 2 BMW M3;first driver signed is the Italian Touring car champion Paolo Meloni.

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by Wheels of Fire

BMW Italia has sold its BMW M3 E92 to Team Dinamic;this new project,started by team manager Maurizio Lusuardi,will have the technical support of ROAL Motorsport.Thomas Biagi is the first driver signed.

Does this mean ROAL will not take part?

W&D is a new team?

Will Audi Italia enter with Audi A5? IIRC they planned to enter with the A5 last year.

[Wheels of Fire]

Originally Posted by FIRE

Does this mean ROAL will not take part?

W&D is a new team?

Will Audi Italia enter with Audi A5? IIRC they planned to enter with the A5 last year.

1)BMW Italia will not take part this year in the Superstars Series beacuse ROAL Motorsport will attend the WTCC and maybe Italian GT Championship as BMW Italia.However ROAL Motorsport will support Team BMW Dinamic.

2)W&D Racing Team is a new team in the Superstars Series.This team come from the Republic of San Marino and in the last years partecipated in the CITE (campionato italiano turismo endurance)




3)Audi Sport Italia should finally race some Audi RS5.

[Wheels of Fire]

Hankook should be the new tyre supplier for the series

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by Wheels of Fire

Hankook should be the new tyre supplier for the series

DTM, TTA, Superstars...they have started an offensive on European soil.

[DS"]

Originally Posted by FIRE

DTM, TTA, Superstars...they have started an offensive on European soil.

Which makes me wonder, if all series run on the same tires. DTM has tires the size of LMP2 ones for 2012, so I wonder if these could fit on the other two cars. TTA maybe, Superstars probably not, as it would require modifications on the production-based shell.

[FIRE]

The new New Zealand V8 Supertourer series will also use Hankooks. If I remember well these tires are the same spec as the DTM tires and are cheaper as the previous used Dunlop tires.

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by FIRE

DTM, TTA, Superstars...they have started an offensive on European soil.

Over in sportscar land, Farnbacher suppossedly lost their contract with Hankook, though.

[Wheels of Fire]

Hankook new tyre supplier for Superstars http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7158


maybe we will see in the championship drivers like Genè,Liuzzi,Frentzen,Villeneuve;for now are only voices.

[NaBUru38]

Gené and Liuzzi deserve to do endurance racing. Frentzen and Villeneuve are more adequate for Superstars.

Hankook is taking over the world. They are title sponsors of a Chilean Rally Championship team and official sponsors of the championship itself.

[Wheels of Fire]

Rangoni Motorsport could rejoin the championship this year.

[kurski]

Originally Posted by Wheels of Fire

maybe we will see in the championship drivers like Genè,Liuzzi,Frentzen,Villeneuve;for now are only voices.

This sounds interesting, hopefully, take place. Especially Villeneuve would be nice to see a race.

[Wheels of Fire]

Swiss Team this year will field 3 Maserati Quattroporte,Audi Sport Italia 3 Audi RS5 while the old RS4 will race under the colours of Durango Motorsport.
Rangoni Motorsport is back in the series with former N Technology Porsche Panamera S for Garofano and probably Rangoni.

[FIRE]

Nice to see the Porsche back.

[Wheels of Fire]

SUPERSTARS SERIES ANNOUNCES 34 FULL-TIME ENTRIES FOR 2012: http://www.superstars.it/Superstars-...ENTRIES-F.aspx

[Wheels of Fire]

teenager Schoffler with Audi MTM Motorsport: http://www.fourtitude.com/news/publi...cle_7469.shtml

[cmk]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

Over in sportscar land, Farnbacher suppossedly lost their contract with Hankook, though.

The best sort of offensive is one with no competition.

[Wheels of Fire]

Stefano Gabellini is the second driver of Team BMW Dinamic;Gabellini and Biagi are going to be teammates for the third year in a row.

[Wheels of Fire]

according to Autosprint Andrea Cecchellero (22 years old) and Simone Monforte (20 years old) are two of three drivers of Durango;moreover,Fabrizio Giovanardi should race again in the series with CAAL Racing.

[Subaru_WRX_STi]

for the RS5, it will be the same for Audi Sport Italia and MTM, or each team will build its own version ?

[Wheels of Fire]

Originally Posted by Subaru_WRX_STi

for the RS5, it will be the same for Audi Sport Italia and MTM, or each team will build its own version ?

I think will be the same for Audi Sport Italia,MTM and a third team to be announced,but I'm not sure because there aren't more news about it,and the few infos are confused:for example,on Autosprint they wrote that Morbidelli and Schoffler are teammates at Audi Sport Italia,insted on many websites Schoffler is reported as MTM Motorsport driver... wait&see