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During last year’s FIA GT championship Maserati drove their competitors into the ground with the MC12 GT1 (which already spawned the MC12). On the occasion of the overall victory, Maserati introduced the limited edition (12 units) MC12 Corsa. The Über-Maserati weighs nearly 400 kg (880 lbs) less than the base MC12 (1150 instead of 1531 kg [2530 lbs instead of 3368 lbs]). This corresponds to a power-to-weight ratio of 1.5 kg / hp (3.36 lb / hp). With 755 hp and 740 Nm (546 ft-lb) of torque …

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Known as the Aston Martin Vantage GT2

Built by Prodrive and will be raced in the 2008 American Le Mans Series, the FIA GT Championship* , and the Le Mans Series.

GT1 vs GT2:

(Drayson-Barwell GT2 team and Bell Motorsports GT1 team)

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1788872339

Factory driver Darren Turner will join the Drayson-Barwell team for Petit Le Mans on October 4, 2008.

http://www.drayson-barwell.com/article/publish/news08/Darren_Turner.html

Prodrive:

http://www.prodrive.com/

Official pictures:

http://www.planetlemans.com/2008/03/28/first-official-images-of-aston-martin-vantage-gt2/

Information and pictures from early March LMS testing in Southern France at the Paul Ricard circuit.

http://ultimatecarpage.com/car/3539/Aston-Martin-V8-Vantage-GT2.html

Inside GT2 tires:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.endurance-info.com/article.php?sid=4501

The British Barwell Motorsport team supported Drayson-Barwell in the 2008 American Le Mans Series with cellulosic E85 ethanol and Dunlop tires. They will compete in the 2009 Le Mans Series in Europe.

http://www.drayson-barwell.com/

http://www.barwellmotorsport.co.uk/

http://www.driversknow.co.uk/

James Watt Automotive has switched from running a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR to the new Vantage GT2 in the Le Mans Series team with Dunlop tires.

http://www.jameswattautomotive.com/

FIA GT Championship team:

http://www.gigawavemotorsport.com/

*Gigawave Motorsport has withdrawn its GT2 ride to concentrate on GT1 for 2008:

http://www.planetlemans.com/2008/04/11/gigawave-motorsport-to-withdraw-vantage-gt2/

Another 2008 preview video with Darren Turner:

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-video-aston-martin-2008-preview/

http://www.darrenturner.net/

Aston Martin Racing used the 3rd and 2nd to last rounds of the 2008 FIA GT Championship to test the new Vantage GT2.

two pictures from Belgium’s Zolder circuit:

http://theracesite.com/index.cfm?template=pa&form_pa_id=4378&form_photo_num=2

http://theracesite.com/index.cfm?template=pa&form_pa_id=4378&form_photo_num=71

As a side note, Corvette Racing will move to the GT2 class in the second half of the 2009 American Le Mans Series with plans for customer cars.

September 9, 2008 news

http://www.americanlemans.com/news/Article.aspx?ID=4783

Check out a couple of Porsches from the NASA Nationals. a 510hp 996 w/ a ALMS engine and sequential gear box. and DeMan Motorsport’s 99′ 996 with a 350hp cup engine.