2014 Blancpain Sprint Series
2014 Blancpain Sprint Series | |||
Previous: | 2013 | Next: | 2015 |
The 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series is the second season following on from the demise of the SRO Group's FIA GT1 World Championship (an auto racing series for grand tourer cars), the first with the designation of Blancpain Sprint Series.
Calendar
The series will start at the Circuit Paul Armagnac in Nogaro, France on 21 April and end at Baku World Challenge in Azerbaijan on 2 November. The seven-event calendar contained largely the same events as FIA GT Series, with the addition of races at Brands Hatch in the Great Britain and Algarve in Portugal, and the pullout of Circuito de Navarra, Spain.[1]
Event | Circuit | Date | Report |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro, France | 21 April | report |
2 | Brands Hatch, Kent, Great Britain | 18 May | report |
3 | Circuit Park Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Netherlands | 6 July | report |
4 | Automotodróm Slovakia Ring, Orechová Potôň, Slovakia | 24 August | report |
5 | Algarve International Circuit, Algarve, Portugal | 7 September | report |
6 | Circuit Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium | 19 October | report |
7 | Baku World Challenge, Baku, Azerbaijan | 2 November | report |
Entry list
Race results
Event | Circuit | Pole position | Qualifying Race Winner | Championship Race Winner | Report |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nogaro | No. 28 Grasser Racing Team | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 84 HTP Motorsport | Report |
Hari Proczyk Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Maximilian Buhk Maximilian Götz | |||
2 | Brands Hatch | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 28 Grasser Racing Team | No. 28 Grasser Racing Team | Report |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Hari Proczyk Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Hari Proczyk Jeroen Bleekemolen | |||
3 | Zandvoort | No. 28 Grasser Racing Team | No. 28 Grasser Racing Team | No. 2 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | Report |
Hari Proczyk Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Hari Proczyk Jeroen Bleekemolen |
René Rast Enzo Ide | |||
4 | Slovakia Ring | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No.76 BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert | Report |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Dominik Baumann Thomas Jäger | |||
5 | Algarve | No. 3 G-Drive Racing | No. 28 Grasser Racing Team | No. 84 HTP Motorsport | Report |
Roman Rusinov Tomáš Enge |
Hari Proczyk Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Maximilian Buhk Maximilian Götz | |||
6 | Zolder | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 84 HTP Motorsport | Report |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Maximilian Buhk Maximilian Götz | |||
7 | Baku | No. 9 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | No. 1 Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | Report |
Stéphane Ortelli Stéphane Richelmi |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Laurens Vanthoor César Ramos |
Championship standings
- Scoring system
Championship points were awarded for the first six positions in each Qualifying Race and for the first ten positions in each Championship Race. The pole-sitter in the qualifying race also received one point, entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.
- Qualifying race points
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | Pole |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- Championship race points
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' Championship
Cup
|
Bold – Pole |
Pro-Am Trophy
Pos. | Driver | Team | NOG |
BRH |
ZAN |
SVK |
ALG |
ZOL |
BAK |
Total | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | ||||
1 | Marc Basseng Alessandro Latif |
Phoenix Racing | 13 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 15 | DNS | DNS | 162 | ||
2 | Sascha Halek Stefan Landmann |
Grasser Racing Team | 15 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 100 | ||||||
3 | Marko Asmer Aleksey Vasilyev |
GT Russian Team | 20 | Ret | 18 | 12 | 39 | ||||||||||
4 | Francisco Mora Paulo Pinheiro |
Sports and You | Ret | 18 | 18 | ||||||||||||
5 | António Coimbra Luis Silva |
Sports and You | 18 | 20 | 16 | ||||||||||||
6 | Marc A. Hayek Peter Kox |
Blancpain Racing | 12 | Ret | 9 | ||||||||||||
7 | René Münnich | All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport | 14 | Ret | 6 |
Silver Cup
Pos. | Driver | Team | NOG |
BRH |
ZAN |
SVK |
ALG |
ZOL |
BAK |
Total | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | ||||
1 | Vincent Abril Mateusz Lisowski |
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | 7 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | Ret | 17 | 11 | Ret | 17 | 174 |
2 | Stefano Colombo David Fumanelli |
ROAL Motorsport | 15 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 13 | Ret | 15 | 12 | 17 | Ret | 14 | 154 |
3 | Miguel Toril | Fortec Motorsport | 13 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 15 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 16 | 11 | 132 |
4 | Luca Stolz Lucas Wolf |
HTP Motorsport | 17 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 19 | DNS | 79 | ||||||
5 | Armaan Ebrahim | Fortec Motorsport | DNS | DNS | 16 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 15 | Ret | 63 | ||||
6 | Benjamin Hetherington | DNS | DNS | Ret | 14 | 16 | 11 | 48 | |||||||||
7 | Joe Osborne Ryan Ratcliffe |
Triple 888 Racing | 17 | 13 | 24 | ||||||||||||
8 | Nico Bastian | Fortec Motorsport | 13 | 12 | 21 | ||||||||||||
Guest drivers ineligible for Silver Cup points | |||||||||||||||||
Sven Barth David Jahn |
Callaway – RWT | 14 | 8 |
Teams' Championship
Cup
|
Bold – Pole |
Pro-Am Trophy
Pos. | Team | Manufacturer | NOG |
BRH |
ZAN |
SVK |
ALG |
ZOL |
BAK |
Total | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | ||||
1 | Phoenix Racing | Audi | 13 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 15 | DNS | DNS | 162 | ||
2 | Grasser Racing Team | Lamborghini | 15 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 100 | ||||||
3 | GT Russian Team | Mercedes-Benz | 20 | Ret | 18 | 12 | 39 | ||||||||||
4 | Sports and You | Mercedes-Benz | 18 | 18 | 22 | ||||||||||||
5 | Blancpain Racing | Lamborghini | 12 | Ret | 9 | ||||||||||||
6 | All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport | Mercedes-Benz | 14 | Ret | 6 |
Silver Cup
Pos. | Team | Manufacturer | NOG |
BRH |
ZAN |
SVK |
ALG |
ZOL |
BAK |
Total | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | QR | CR | ||||
1 | Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | Audi | 7 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 7 | Ret | 17 | 11 | Ret | 17 | 174 |
2 | ROAL Motorsport | BMW | 15 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 13 | Ret | 15 | 12 | 17 | Ret | 14 | 154 |
3 | Fortec Motorsport | Mercedes-Benz | 13 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 15 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 16 | 11 | 132 |
4 | HTP Motorsport | Mercedes-Benz | 17 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 19 | DNS | 79 | ||||||
5 | Triple 888 Racing | BMW | 17 | 13 | 24 | ||||||||||||
Guest teams ineligible for Silver Cup points | |||||||||||||||||
Callaway – RWT | Chevrolet | 14 | 8 | 0 |
See also
Footnotes
- 1 2 3 At the first three rounds, G-Drive Racing ran as a support team for the W Racing Team.[5] At the fifth round, G-Drive Racing formed part of the Reiter Engineering entry.[7]
References
- ↑ "Blancpain GT Series adds Circuit Zolder to 2014 calendar". www.blancpain-gt-series.com/. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mercier, Laurent (10 April 2014). "Jimenez Completes Lineup at BMW Team Brazil". sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media, LLC. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 "Thrilling finale of the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series at the Baku World Challenge". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Great Britain Brands Hatch / Entry List". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Belgian Audi Club Team WRT announces its line-up for 2014". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
- 1 2 "@BlancpainGT: 22 August". Twitter. Twitter Inc. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ↑ Watkins, Gary (3 September 2014). "Blancpain Sprint Series frontrunner Buhk to return after case dropped". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "France Nogaro Coupes de Pâques / Entry List". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Portuguese Summer Battle in Portimao". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Corrêa, João (22 March 2014). "Phoenix Racing fields two Audi R8 LMS ultra in the Blancpain Sprint Series". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com, Inc. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "GRT Expands to Two-Car Lamborghini Effort". John Dagys Media Group, LLC. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Grasser Racing Team is determined to be among the frontrunners in the Blancpain Sprint". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Title contenders will try to close the gap in Zolder". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 13 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Watkins, Gary (21 January 2014). "Alex Zanardi returns to motorsport with ROAL BMW Blancpain GT seat". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Watkins, Gary (18 August 2014). "HTP to field third Mercedes in Slovakia Ring Blancpain Sprint round". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Miguel Toril competirá en el equipo Fortec Motorsports" [Miguel Toril will compete in the Fortec Motorsports team]. Minuto90 (in Spanish). Garman Comunicaciones SL. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Vita4One joins largest grid of the year so far". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 ten Caat, Marcel (24 June 2014). "Schubert Motorsport To Enter Blancpain Sprint Series". Sportscar365. John Dagys Media Group, LLC. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Watkins, Gary (20 January 2014). "HTP Mercedes and Maximilian Buhk to defend Blancpain GT titles". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ↑ Bitzer, Yannick (14 April 2014). "Blancpain GT Serien — Die Starterlisten zur Saison 2014". Motorsport-Magazin.com (in German). Adrivo Sportpresse. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ↑ ten Caat, Marcel (21 August 2014). "Buhk Suspended for Slovakia Ring After GT Masters Incident". Sportscar365. John Dagys Media Group, LLC. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ↑ Watkins, Gary (3 February 2014). "HTP Mercedes squad signs Stef Dusseldorp for 2014 Blancpain GT". Autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Double Blancpain GT Series programme for Villorba Corse". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 30 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ↑ ten Caat, Marcel (27 June 2014). "Balzan Joins Scuderia Villorba Corse for Zandvoort". Sportscar365. John Dagys Media Group, LLC. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "NSC Motorsports joins Blancpain Sprint Series in Zolder". Blancpain Sprint Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.