Round 4 - Brands Hatch

 

It was an interesting round at Brands Hatch, 2 full course cautions which bunched up the field again, and many many battles. 

 

In the GT3 field, Frederick Byloos (Belgium AMG Motorsport SLS) battled with Toby Nicholls (WTC Racing SLS AMG GT3). Byloos dominated this round's GT3 race by racing on the pole position, and winning the race. Although receiving many points, the PRP (Post Race Penalty) will be adjusted in order to balance out his performance and not letting dominations happen, like Formula 1's case with the last 4 season Red Bull winning and now an overdominating Mercedes team.

 

The battles in GTM were intense. The two Vipers battles throughout the whole race and even crashing them selves out. Tipaldi won the battle because Rodriguez' mistake, plowing through the gravel trap.

 

Another battle took place, a German-Italian Sandwhich between the leading Marco Law (Team Bubbletech BMW M4 GTM), then Alexander Heinen in the PRT Competition 458 Italia and Rob Griffin in his Team Bubbletech BMW M4 GTM.

 

Two full course cautions were called after Rodriguez lost his car and smashed the wall hard. 20 minutes later the same happened to Rob Griffin, also, same place.

 

Boon Breyne although had to retire because of damage.

 

 

No penalties

 

 

The officials received an incident during the full course cautions, but the driver retired the accusation. In overall a very clean race, although we had some contact, some bumping during the battles, and the Vipers crashing them selves out, no penalties were given.

 

 

Championship standings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AFP Title standings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New PRP (Post Race Penalty)

 

 

GT3 Class

NAME (CAR): ................................................................................. Old power @ weight → new power @ weight

Frederick Byloos (SLS AMG GT3): .............................................. 530hp @1350kg → 522hp @ 1360kg (-1,5% of the power, +0,75% of the weight)

Toby Nicholls (SLS AMG GT3): ................................................... 530hp @ 1350kg → 538hp @ 1350kg (+1,5% of the power, no weight reduction possible)

 

GTM Class

NAME (CAR): ................................................................................ Old power@weight → new power @ weight

Marco Law (BMW M4): .............................................................. 460hp @ 1380kg → 453hp @ 1390kg (-1,5% of the power, +0,75% of the weight)

Boon Breyne (Corvette C7.M): ................................................. 447hp @ 1433kg →  454hp @ 1422kg (+1,5% of the power, -0,75% of the weight)

Ciro Tipaldi (Viper GTS-M): ....................................................... 435hp @ 1427kg → 430hp @ 1434kg (-1,1% of the power, +0,5% of the weight)

Ivan Rodriguez (Viper GTS-M): ................................................. 443hp @ 1417kg → 448hp @1410kg (+1,1% of the power, -0,5% of the weight)

Rob Griffin (BMW M4 GTM): .................................................... 460hp @ 1380kg → 458hp @ 1383kg ( -0,5% of the power, +0,25% of the weight)

Alexander Heinen (Ferrari 458 Italia): .................................... 437hp @ 1457kg → 439hp @ 1453kg (+0,5% of the power, -0,25& of the weight)

 

 

 

 Michael Lam and Martin Sirochman retired

 

 

Two pro-drivers recently retired. One is the GT3 Driver Martin Sirochman, driving the ProSlovak Racing Nismo GT3 who won the pre-season round at the Grand Valley Speedway. and finished 2nd at the heavy night rain race at Spa. 

The driver of the BMW UK BMW M4 GTM, and one of the officials, Michael Lam retired from this racing series because of lack of time.