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Okay, if you've read through any of teh old FIA GT1 threads I posted for you ACEholes back in teh day you might remember Selleslagh Racing, or SRT. They were teh ones that ruffled Bigfoot's feathers by flying Chinese bank sponsorship on their vette:

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Ah, now you remember....

Anyway, they snagged one of last year's C6.R's and are going to drop in a 7.0 liter bullet (instead of teh wimpy 5.5L) to go racing in something called teh International GT Open.

Story linky: http://sportscar365.com/gt/gt-open/selleslagh-black-team-return-to-gt-open/

I plan on following along, ya know...for sh!ts and giggles.

To read more on teh International GT Open, like I did, click here: http://www.gtopen.net/

No word on what sponsorship they will run...yet, but lets hope its not a Chinese bank.

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Looks great! How to watch?

Don't know about live broadcast or streams, but they have their own Youboob channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/GTOPENseries

Teh series visits some bitchin' tracks.

Nurburgring Portimao Jerez

Hungaroring Silverstone Spa Monza

Barcelona

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Cool, maybe teh teams not happy with teh stupor series of screwups will jump ship and make this teh new stomping grounds ????

Of course I could just be dreaming!

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If they will live stream, I bet they get a whole new gang of viewers that are unhappy with France and his gang of Merry Men...

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A little SRT news trickling in....

"We welcome drivers Maxime Soulet & Nick Catsburg, who will pilot the new Selleslagh Racing Team C6R GTE chassis at Rd1 of the Int' GT Open."

and

"Selleslagh Racing Team will race their C6R GTE chassis in the Belgian BRCC, w/drivers Martin Makelberge, Maxime Soulet, & Max Van Splunteren"

Picture evidence they actually bought a C6R GTE, and it's still yeller: http://instagram.com/p/nLJWOLCN0B/#

As I understand it, from some French website, the BRCC is this weekend. :huh:

I've heard of Catsburg, the others could be Belgian porn stars afaik. :lol

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"Selleslagh Racing Team debut their new GTE C6.R chassis to pole at the Belgain BRCC Round 1 at the Circuit Zolder!"

:lol Apparently they beat out that jalopy Ferrari in the photo....

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Finding pix of this 7 liter beast is proving difficult.....however this butt shot should invite Dawg to tell us all how much better looking it is than the C7.R:

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New Race Festival: Results of qualifications. 26/04/2014

Corvette, Ferrari and BMW share the spoils of the first qualification BRCC

Zolder, April 26, 2014 - The 29 cars registered from the first qualifying session of 2014 BRCC have already rewarded the promoter Kronos Events its labor intensive winter.

Whether Trophy Endurance, Endurance Endurance Cup or Pro, the splendid cars discovered Saturday gave many the feeling of being plunged back into the golden years of the Belgian circuit! A qualifying session, but yes for three starting grids different ... This year, remember, the BRCC Endurance distributes three distinct national titles: Endurance Trophy Cup Endurance and Stamina Pro. So you can easily follow the discussions on the track, three colors distinguish three championships: red for Endurance Trophy, yellow for Endurance Cup and finally black for Endurance Pro. In this unique qualification, the battle raging Endurance Pro in the race for the pole between the SRT Corvette C6, the Ferrari F458 and Porsche Curbstone Belgium Racing. The benefit, ultimately, the American trio of beautiful Makelberge-Soulet-Van Splunteren. In Endurance Cup , no one was able to challenge the supremacy of the Ferrari F458 Racing Thems Nicolas Van Dierendonck and Olivier Van Oost. They got the better of the Ferrari D & F Engineering Curbstone Pol Stoffel Carlos Rivas and Porsche MExT Racing of Wauters brothers. In Endurance Trophy is the BMW M3 Euroracing Christophe Pampel and Pierre-Yves Rosoux who won setting. GC V6 Cup Gerald Delépine-Reymond and Jeremy van de Poele father and son took over the 2nd and 3rd palces on the grid. The start of the race 180 'will be given this Sunday, April 27 at 12:00.

Endurance Pro:

1 Makelberge-Soulet-Van Splunteren, Corvette C6 R, 1'29 "693,. :Jake: 2 . Vervisch-Verdonck, Ferrari F458 GT3, 1'30 "122, 3. Derdaele-Heyer-Maassen, Porsche 911 GT3 R, 1'30 "916, 4. Grivegnee-Schmetz-Bouvy, Aston Martin Vantage GT3, 1'31'' 182, 5. Verbergt-Redant-Coens, Aston Martin Vantage GT3, 1'31'' 214, 6. Verstraete-Dubois-Catsburg, Lamborghini Gallardo GT3, 1'31'' 453, 7. Kumpen-Longin-Beliën, Audi R8 LMS, 1'32'' 302; etc..

Endurance Cup:

1.Vandierendonck Van Oost, Ferrari F458 Challenge, 1'33'' 575, 2. Stoffel-Rivas, Ferrari F458 Challenge, 1'34'' 858, 3. Wauters-Wauters, Porsche 997 Cup, 1'35'' 077, 4. Van Haren-Hoogaars Hoevernaars-Porsche 997 Cup, 1'35'' 299, 5. Vleugels-Fawe Van Glabeke, Ferrari F458 Challenge, 1'35'' 950, 6. Thiers Thiers, Ferrari F458 Challenge, 1'35'' 963, 7. Vanbellingen-Sluys-Van Loo, BMW M3 Silhouette, 1'36'' 376; etc..

Endurance Trophy:

1-Rosoux Pampel, BMW M3, 1'41'' 333;. 2. Delepine-Reymond, GC V6 Cup, 1'43'' 123; 3. Van-Van stove stove, GC V6 Cup, 1'43'' 759, 4. Lequeux-Ueberecken, Ginetta G50, 1'43 "943, 5. Dermot-Yamazaki, GC V6 Cup, 1'43 "991, 6. Gaunt-Al Azhari, GC V6 Cup, 1'45 "397, 7. Lammens, Porsche GT4 1'46 "813; etc..

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Sounds like they finished 4th in the race. It is listed as Round 1 of the BRCC, meaning there will be other rounds? Or maybe they are just running these BRCC rounds until the Int'l GT open series gets rolling.

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If your depraved soul has ached to hear the song of a 427 race motor in a Corvette once again, then turn up those crappy computer speakers and rejoice:

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The middle one please!!! Oh and I'll see vid when I get home from the mines of salt...

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Int'l GT open begins this weekend at Nurburgring, and Nick Catsburg tweeted teh SRT C6.R sits in P1 after teh second practice session.

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Have you found a streaming source for this yet Dean-O?

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Have you found a streaming source for this yet Dean-O?

Corvette Motorsport says they will host teh live stream at http://www.corvettemotorsport.com/gtopen but only see last year's race vids posted so far.

There will apparently be a Z06.R in GT3, and an old GT1 C6.R running at Nurburgring as well as SRT's C6.R GTE.

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O ficial blurbage:

Jäger … meister in foggy Ring free practice
02.05.2014
It was a typical Nürburgring day on Friday for the free practices of the 2014 GT Open season-opener: foggy and cold weather delayed the start of the action for a couple of hours. Session 1 went on a wet track, while session 2 took place on a dry but still very cold surface.

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On both instances, it was local hero Thomas Jäger at the wheel of the Lechner Racing Mercedes SLS posting the fastest time. In the morning, he beat Tomas Enge (Kox Lamborghini) and the SMP Racing Ferrari F458 of Daniel Zampieri, while in the afternoon, second and third were the Corvettes of Soulet-Catsburg (SRT) and Pastorelli-Ramos (V8 Racing).
In the dry and fastest session, the Villorba Ferrari was fourth ahead of the F458 of Gattuso (Ombra) and the debuting Eurotech Lamborghini of Valsecchi-Venturini.
The only incident of the day took place in session 2 when Stefano Costantini (Ombra Racing Ferrari) lost the car in first lap because of the cold tire, hitting heavily at turn 5. The car should be reparable for tomorrow, but Ombra Racing certainly preferred to celebrate their 20th anniversary.
24 cars are present in Germany, equaling the number of entries of last year’s season-opener. Only the AF Corse of Flohr-Castellacci couldn’t make it, after heavy damage in private testing at Mugello last week.
Among other notes of interest, Villorba Corse has decide to come to this round with their GT3 car, thinking it would be more adapted to the possible weather conditions.
Matt Griffin was eventually able to take his place alongside Duncan Cameron on the AF Ferrari, following the withdrawal of RAM at the WEC round in Spa.
Tomas Enge, José Manuel Aicart and Andrea Piccini will make their official return to the GT Open after shining in the early years. Aicart was a vice-champion in 2006 with the GTA Mosler, while Piccini claimed one GTS win in 2009.
German driver Suzanne Weidt, who shares a privateer Audi R8 LMS ultra with Dietmar Haggenmüller, will be the first lady in the GT Open since Christine Desbruères in 2008.

Euros.....

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Victory for teh C6.R GT1 from V8Racingbv in Race 1 of the Int'l GT Open.

Youboob:

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SRT wins Race 2, V8Racing was 4th, and teh Z06.R was 8th. :Jake:

Sunday's Race 2, now on Youboob:

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