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tannat
21st February 2007, 14:09
It looks as if there will be a very nice grid of GT1 cars for the 2007 FIA GT season:

http://www.fiagt.com/newsitem.php?key=1169

The Zakspeed Saleen showed excellent speed last year. The Saleen has far from reached it's 'sell by' date...

Sleeper
21st February 2007, 16:24
One question, what the heck is the Citation Cup? :s

Erki
21st February 2007, 16:28
Obviously these are the ex ACEMCO Saleens. So Zakspeed Saleen is still up for grabs. Saleen is my favourite GT1 car so I'm very very happy to see two of them in both FIA GT and the LMS. :up:

Btw, what the heck is Citation Cup? Hasn't FIA GT organisers gone a bit too far with GT3, GT4, Citation Cup..? What's next, GT17? :)

IMSAFAN1
21st February 2007, 16:46
i wonder who the two american drivers will be. Any ideas?

The mad monk
21st February 2007, 20:52
Dont hold your breath on this 'new team'....he has already screwed Mardi Gras and Pyro in the last 2 weeks...and me.
and we wont let this lie.

tannat
22nd February 2007, 02:59
Dont hold your breath on this 'new team'....he has already screwed Mardi Gras and Pyro in the last 2 weeks...and me.
and we wont let this lie.

Umm, could you elaborate?

Rover V8
22nd February 2007, 20:22
I don't know anything about the recent dealings with the Mardi Gras team that are referred to above, but from what I've read elsewhere, the guy behind this Saleen project seems to have a bit of a reputation- highlights I've seen elsewhere mentioned a pay-drive with the Graham Nash Saleen team at the 2005 Silverstone LMS round, for which he didn't turn up, and a non-existent ChampCar team with big-money backing from Sunoco,

http://www.planetlemans.com/cmsv2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2331&Itemid=2

amongst other things

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/hl97jul.htm

It seems to have been met by pretty widespread scepticism....

Rover V8
22nd February 2007, 20:28
Btw, what the heck is Citation Cup? Hasn't FIA GT organisers gone a bit too far with GT3, GT4, Citation Cup..? What's next, GT17? :)

The Citation cup was announced by Ratel earlier this month- it's a category for non-professional drivers running in GT1.

http://fiagt.com:16080/newsitem.php?key=1158

IMSAFAN1
22nd February 2007, 21:30
This guy sounds like a piece of work....