Showing posts with label W Racing Team. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A superb 2013 programme for the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

  Wednesday, March 27, 2013      

Belgian Audi Club Press Release

  • Three Audi R8 LMS ultra in the FIA GT Series and in the Blancpain Endurance Series
  • The Nürburgring and Zolder 24 Hour races also in the team’s diary
  • Belgium’s Laurens Vanthoor joined by international stars

The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT invited the press today at its premises in Baudour to present its 2013 sporting programme. Not a short one, it must be said!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Audi Sport Spa 24 factory liveries

  Wednesday, July 25, 2012      

By Tarek Ramchani

Audi won the Spa 24 Hours outright last year with the Audi R8 LMS. This weekend the Ingolstadt brand will try to defend its title with four officially entered Audi R8 LMS ultra cars. Two cars from Audi Sport Team Phoenix and two from Audi Sport Team WRT. Audi could make history as well by winning the three major 24 hour races in Europe in the same year: The Nürbrugring, Le Mans and Spa-Francorchamps 24 Hour races. The race itself is not only prestigious but it is also round 4 of the Blancpain Endurance Series, where only Team WRT compete on a full season basis. Here are the official liveries of the four Audi cars.

Audi Sport Team WRT:

#1 Audi Sport Team WRT: Christopher Haase, Christopher Mies and Stephane Ortelli
#2 Audi Sport Team WRT: Edward Sandstrom, Laurens Vanthoor and Marco Bonanomi

Audi Sport Team Phoenix:

#6 Audi Sport Team Phoenix: Andre Lottere, Marcel Fassler and Tom Kristensen
#16 Audi Performance Cars Team Phoenix: Andrea Piccini, Frank Stippler and Rene Rast

Friday, July 20, 2012

Video: WRT Audi Spa 24 Hours preview trailer

  Friday, July 20, 2012      

By Johan Laubscher

The 2012 Spa 24 Hours is fast approaching. WRT are heading to the event with one goal, to defend the title of Spa 24 Hour winners. The race is scheduled for the 28th and 29th of July and two WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra cars will be on the grid for the title defence.

Here is the WRT team’s video preview trailer for the event to increase the excitement for the race that is less than a week away. 


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Video: Stunning WRT 2011 Spa 24 Hour victory video

  Friday, July 20, 2012      

By Johan Laubscher

The Belgian W Racing Team (WRT) was victorious at the 2011 Spa 24 Hours. The 2012 edition of the Belgian endurance race is less than a week away and WRT will be back to defend their title with a pair of Audi R8 LMS ultra race cars.

The 2011 Spa 24 Hours was the first event where WRT produced an event review video. The video was brilliant and started the tradition of WRT producing videos after each of the team’s major event participations. All three parts of the 2011 WRT Spa video has been included below. It is a great video and offers a glimpse into the workings of the WRT team, enjoy:  


2011 WRT Spa 24 Hours Video


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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Video: Ortelli saves WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra from disaster

  Saturday, June 09, 2012      

By Johan Laubscher

Round 4 of the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship is being held at the Slovakia Ring. A track infamous for the flying back straight where cars can get there front wheels lifting off the ground. 

For Audi fans there was a big scare during qualifying this morning. Stéphane Ortelli in the #32 WRT Audi R8 LMS was pushing like crazy to extract every last bit of performance from the Audi R8 LMS ultra when he had a massive high speed off. Ortelli displayed huge amounts of car control has he managed to miss the wall not once but twice. This off was a massive scare for Audi fans as the possible contact with the wall would probably have ended the #32 car crew’s weekend, or at least ended that specific chassis’s participation.

Some are blaming offs like this on BoP (Balance of performance) which is resulting in drivers having to drive above the limit because of performance disadvantages due to the vagrancies of the rules. The effects of BoP are clearly visibly amongst the teams on the FIA GT1 grid, some for better and others for worse. BoP is a very difficult and equally sensitive topic in racing, hopefully it will be improved for FIA GT1 very soon, it would be a shame if the class of FIA GT1 becomes tainted due to something like BoP. 


Stéphane Ortelli saves the #32 WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra


More information:
FIA GT1 website
FIA GT1 YouTube channel







The images are from the official FIA GT1 Youtube channel qualifying highlights video

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Video: Belgian Audi Club WRT Monza Report

  Thursday, April 19, 2012      

By Johan Laubscher

The Belgian Audi Club WRT team have competed in their second major event of 2012, the first round of the Blancpain Endurance Series at Monza. The team very nearly won the event but due to various factors finished in the second and sixth positions.

As has become tradition WRT prepares a video of each of their race events. Here is the latest video, featuring the team at Monza. Enjoy:


 WRT Monza video trailer



WRT Monza video



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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Brilliant FIA GT1 video from Belgian Audi club WRT

  Wednesday, April 11, 2012      

By Johan Laubscher

The Belgian W Racing Team, also known as Belgian Audi Club Team Team WRT have become known to make some excellent videos documenting their motorsport activities. Last year they brought us breathtaking videos from the Spa 24 Hours, their debut in the Malaysian 12 Hour race at Sepang and many other races.

Last weekend saw WRT's debut in the FIA GT1 World Championship with the perfect result. The team scored a 1-2 finish in both the weekend’s races. Now this calls for celebration and a nice way to celebrate it with their fans is with another race video from WRT.


Here it is: An exciting fifteen minute video compilation which encompasses this brilliant WRT triumph.


Enjoy the video bellow:

The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT dominate the opening weekend of FIA GT1



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Cover photo by Jean-Baptiste Lassaux from www.autorennsport.ch 

 

Monday, April 2, 2012

Good warm up for WRT and JWS Audi R8 LMS teams - VdeV

  Monday, April 02, 2012      

By Johan Laubscher

Earlier in the year Audi fans saw some clues from the Belgian W Racing Team regarding a specific French championship. The WRT team took part in the V de V series test days at Dijon and rumours surrounding a few WRT V de V race participations emerged. V de V is a French championship for a variety of different race cars which compete in both sprint and endurances races across Europe.

The opening round of the V de V series took place in Spain at the Catalunya circuit for a 6 hour endurance race on the weekend of April 1st. Originally a total of four Audi R8 LMS cars had been entered for the race. Two from WRT and one from both JWS Racing and AB Sport Auto. Despite four cars on the original entry list only two cars would ultimately take part. One car from WRT driven by François Verbist, Yves Weerts and Kurt Mollekens and one car from JWS driven by William David and Jean-Marc Quintois. The WRT team had originally planned two cars, one for the team bosses to have some fun in and the other to be driven by more rapid drivers, but in the end only one car took part in an event deemed to be more for fun and preparation than for out right results. The JWS Racing entry was also aimed for preparation. This was the first race meeting for the JWS Racing team and their goal was to use the race to prepare for the 2012 French GT Tour season.

Both teams qualified very well for the race with WRT claiming class pole followed by JWS second in class, 4th and 6th overall respectively. The race got underway in very warm conditions with some great racing. JWS unfortunately retired early on lap 6 after an on-track incident. The team was very disappointed but they are fully focused on their next race, the season opener of the French GT Tour. WRT soldiered on in the 6 hour race which served as a good warm up for the team’s busy 2012 season, ahead of their FIA GT1 debut one week after this event. WRT finished the 6 hour endurance race in 4th position overall and 2nd position in class.

The 6 hours of Catalunya served as a good warm up for the both JWS Racing and WRT teams. We will soon see both teams and their R8 LMS cars in action again in various other races around Europe and in the case of WRT, around the world as well.


Photos by JWS Racing

More Information:
JWS Racing FB page
W Racing Team FB page 
V de V website

WRT # 8 Audi R8 LMS and JWS #38 Audi R8 LMS

JWS Racing #38 Audi R8 LMS

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