FIA GT1 // San Luis // The Finale

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San Luis is a track that could grace any list of ‘World’s Best Tracks’ or similar chaff that always gets shifted onto unfortunate readers’ news feeds at the end of the year. That the FIA GT1 World Championship continued so late, with two rounds in two weeks finishing in December, means that for me at least, there is less chance to write about those tracks (though Interlagos would feature and Navarra would most definitely not).

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But there is no doubt that the Argentines have created a classic at Potrereo de Funes. Racing around a lake, set in breathtaking mountainous scenery, it provided a chance to drop our collective jaw at yet more incredible GT1 racing and incredible GT1 racing it was.

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“It’s a daunting place, that’s for sure,” commented Peter Dumbreck. “It does remind me a bit of Macua. I’ve driver street circuits before and they are pretty simple but here there are so many different types of corners some that are off-camber. There’s a lack of grip because it’s used as a road so it taking a long time for the grip to come up.”

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Local experience, or any kind of experience, was always going to be useful and most useful of all was toaster laden ex-USF1 man Jose Maria Lopez, in for Christoffer Nygaard at Young Driver AMR. The embarrassment of that incident may be one thing but his talent showed in huge swathes as he was comfortably fastest in Q1 and Q3. In the middle went Stefan Mücke, who drove just five practice laps and still went devastatingly fast. Signs were ominous then, for anyone driving a car without an Aston Martin badge as there were three in the top five. Odd car out was the rather heavy (thanks to success ballast) Young Driver car of Enge and Turner, struggling with 40kg of Brazilian weight.

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The qualifying race began with a British racing catastrophe orchestrated by two French chaps and a German. Off the line, pole man Stefan Mücke’s Aston got mobbed by Yann Clairray and the Hexis driver was well clear before he was bumped by Mücke. Alongside, future stunt driver Jonathan Hirschi jumped from fifth to third, then managed an extremely graceful 180, followed by a more panicked 180, and seemed as surprised as everyone else as he got pedal to metal exiting the turn in ninth. Mücke was out (which meant that an almost certain win was gone) and Clairray disappeared.

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Behind him, all hell broke loose for another 59 minutes and 30 seconds. The Championship leaders (Vitaphone’s Bartels and Bertolini) were taken out and ended up at the back as Christopher Haase’s Lamborghini suffered a technical failure and battered the Maserati (though leaders would be Champions by the end of the race anyway). Richard Westbrook and Maxime Martin had a huge battle alongside Dumbreck, Piccione and Kechele, which will go down in history as one of the series’ best, in a fantastic season. Yann Clairray and Fred Makowiecki, for Hexis Aston Martin, won comfortably.

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With Enge and Turner out of the points, Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini took the Championship despite finishing 12th.

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“This championship is not comparable with the last few championships,” explained Bartels, who had previously won in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. “[Previously] we have one or two teams we were up against but this year we had a top level of drivers and teams pushing us all the time. We had new rules to adapt to, we had to redevelop the car for the 2010 regulations.

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We probably won’t realise it today but when we are back in Europe it will sink in that it is something special. In the last few races with the lead we had it was expected that we would win but we had to make sure we didn’t make any crazy mistakes because mathematically we could have thrown it away. We were not fighting for the last metre to the chequered flag but we still had to bring it home.”

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It seems strange to me that the same approach (one of consistency and measured pace) again brought home the title when the season itself had been so competitive and frantic. In reality the team were not pushed as hard as they could’ve been but that is a story for another day.

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The Championship Race, with pressure off everyone (though a handful of positions could still change), proved to be less frantic. Not boring by any stretch (except for the drivers of car number nine, who again drove into the distance and must’ve spent large parts of the race wondering whether everyone else had already gone home), though. At the start, Makowiecki this time romped off and again, car ten stormed forward. This time, in the hands of Clivio Piccione, it remained facing forwards and held second ahead of Richard Westbrook and an ever expanding train behind.

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The Briton, not one to shy away from full body contact, gave the Monegasque single seater specialist a fair whack to his rear facing onboard camera and moments later was through. As the race settled it became clear that Westbrook’s Ford did not have Aston pace and he knuckled down to simply doing the job of retaining his place. Lopez, from the very back remember, fought like a bulldog forwards, passing his own team mate as well as an example of every other brand on the track – his endeavours brought the car forwards and Mücke completed a run to sixth.

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One All-Inkl Lamborghini spun early on but Peter Dumbreck was soon a major casualty, hurling his Nissan into an uncharacteristic and ignominious spin that dropped the car from the front running. Bullish Karl Wendlinger, having scored seventh in the first race, was struggling with his Swiss Nissan (Swissan, perhaps) and was using its tank like attributes in full force to keep Peter Kox behind, if only for a short while before its sheer cumbersome nature was his downfall. Glorious three way side by side racing between Haase, Enge and Krumm, with Enge losing out and sliding backwards.

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Hexis Energy, on the side of Makowiecki’s DBR9, ended up getting rather little coverage – such is life for the dominant victor, again cruising home from the Mutsch/ Westbrook Ford. They finished with almost opposite feelings, then, to Swiss Racing. The Nissan squad struggled all season and finished with just five points, topped off with an unfortunate DNF for Henri Moser in the final race. Also disappointing were Corvette. Phoenix Racing ended the season struggling with just one car (having cremated one in Britain) and huge ballast and so spent their Argentinian holiday at the back, forlornly attempting to get on the pace. Even worse off were Mad Croc, thrown out of the Championship for withdrawing their second car with no drivers – their first car was shunted too heavily to repair in practice.

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So, back to talking about the circuit. To be perfectly honest, there are very few words that can adequately describe it. They’re mostly superlatives (unless you’re in a ‘Vette, where they all have four letters) and fittingly so. If J.R.R. Tolkien made circuits…