GT1 World Championship

Weather looks pretty poor today.

Might clear up later in the morning

Just about to set off, runing a bitlate, Matt and Jamie already there, weather looks cold but dryish later on lol

im here too. Avoiding much of the weather in luffield.

have you guys made it to the track yet? GT3 about to start. My mobile is 07595748723

hanging around luffield.

Well i came in late and now theres about 40 minutes to go, an amazing pack near the back of the field, this new layout really works!

I cant believe this hasnt been mentioned already but.....

The Two Aston MArtins which came in 1st and 2nd have been disqualified post race handing the Win to the #22 Sumopower R35 GTR!

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010/05/02/flash-result-gt-gt-fia-gt1-round-two-at-silverstone-three-become-one.aspx

WHAT THE HELL!!!!!
That will get appealed.

Aside from that trvesty the day was good. I got there at an unearthly 7.30am. Was literally the first car in the carpark too!
The rain and wind were bloody awful for the first couple of hours but I got some pics of the fars coming down the Wellington Straight kicking up the sray and all that.
Weather improved gradually throughout the day. We ended up watching most of the action from the Arena section, saw a 'Vette burst into flames on the Hangar Straight too!
Got REEEAAAAAALLLLY close to the action on the new exit of Abbey, the marshalls were really good and didn't seem to mind us being at their post. Can't imagine that happening in July.
The bike ride round the track was a great experience even if I damaged my ass on the saddle! lol. The whole lap will e up at some point today as will the pics when I've had chance to edit them abit.

Pics now up on Facebook and the Collective

A few images from the day....

nicely done.

good to see someone else spotted the xtrac logo i was going in for a little chat, although i dont speak very good german or french. although we have had the swiss maestros in for a while now. I actually saw a box of xtrac ratios i may have packed

Matech truck looked insane!!!

very good day indeed. i have loads of pics from luffield. too many to even choose a top few to put on here, but if anyone is after any good reference pics or just have a favourite car, let me know and il send them in PM All relatively high quality (8-10 Mpixels) and some really detailed paddock shots for those looking for refernce pics.

Also doing some more 'artistic' shots of some of the GT1/GT3 field so if anyone would be interetsed and can name a car they would like also let me know. The R8 has given me some real inspiration. Also some pics of the beautiful 0ne-77 (not sure if you saw that matt? )

Great pics. Thanks for sharing. Looked like a great day. I wish I could have joined you guys.
@Racelegend - Any pics of Lambo's would be great, but my favourite is the Black and White GT3 Gallardo with Flat Ex on the bonnet. Thanks.

I have a couple of those too.
Didn't see the One-77 on Sunday though I did look.
Did you get any good shots of 'Big John' losing it at the start of the race?

@Matt yes I did lol. Tbh I got every incident at luffield. They brought the one-77 out at around 5.45 just opposite the Porsche club car park in the paddock entance. Looks so much better in the flesh.

@Chillz il take a look I've nearly edited them all so il send you a few samples tonight didn't get a lot of the White and black gallardo but il have a good look. Just I took far to many pics.

Ok so here's the vid of our lap round the track.....
WARNING!!!!
Contains scenes of peril, fear and general unhealthiness!

TORA's Lap of Dishonour!! Silverstone Arena Circuit 2010 from Matt Hunter on Vimeo.

WOO HOO

One more compilation vid

Sights and Sounds of GT1 World! from Matt Hunter on Vimeo.

I love the sounds. I could listen to that all day. Thanks for sharing.

Just catching up with the GT1 Championship race from Brno.
It's VERY expensive touring cars out there!!!!

Everything else is done now, so all we have left to watch is GT1!

Two rounds left as the GT1's travel to South America for a race at Interlagos, followed by a trip to the epic San Luis circuit in Argentina. Vitaphone seem to have it wrapped up with Bertolini and Bartels leading with 130 points. Thomas Mutsch is third with 95 points, and seems to be the only other driver really in with a shout. Unsurprisingly its Vitaphone leading the teams championship with 160 points, with Reiter close behind with 142.

Entry Listhttp://www.gt1world.com/news/article/entry-list-for-interlagos

i really cant wait for the final two rounds, they're at two fantastic circuits and its been a really good season with the highlight being the championship race at the Algarve circuit with some epic commentary. I really hope the Maserati's wont win but i think it's inevitable that they will

Don't forget to support friend of TORA, Darren Turner in the closing rounds

http://www.gt1world.com/gt1tv

Quali Race from San Luis stream is on now!

Qualifying race about to start now!

http://www.gt1world.com/gt1tv