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Also-rans: The News Happen

Today, a little shorter than usual, but we suffer from staff shortages at the moment something ;)

# ALMS Butch Leitzinger returns to the ALMS. He will be driving at Petit Le Mans, the two Jaguars of the RSR team in the GT class. The other two drivers of the car are Paul Gentilozzi, the team owner and Trans-Am champion Tomy Drissi. Butch Leitzinger won including 1997, 1999 and 2004 24 Hours of Daytona. His last assignment this year at the Alex Job team.

# BritishF3 Jack Harvey, runner-up this year and last Formula BMW Europe championship will compete next year in the British Formula 3. Which team, however, is not yet clear. The "Racing Steps Foundation program" which promotes the career of Harvey has worked in the past, but with "Carlin-Racing", so he could stay there. This year's champion of the British Formula 3, Jean-Eric Vergne drove for "Carlin-Racing".

# BritishF3 Again: The former leader of the A1GP championship, Robbie Kerr will be piloting this weekend at Brands Hatch a car of the Litespeed team. It is by far jeodch not the first time in the BritishF3, he won the series 2,001th

# F1 was as expensive (!) The Grand Prix of Australia has cost the local taxpayers $ 46 million and the highest number of audience in spite of the past 5 years. Thus, the cost of the event have doubled since 2006. Of course, now crackles criticism from many sides on politics and organizers, but want to hold on to the event. What you also left another, the contract runs until 2014 and the penalties are likely to have similar proportions of Ecclestone.

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Preview: GT1 and GT3 in Le Castellet / Grand-Am Daytona

The Paul Ricard circuit is 40, GT1 and GT3 Cup Championship come by to celebrate. Even in the U.S. party is announced, the Grand-Am runs just before Independence Day in Daytona and here is a milestone anniversary.

The one closest to Marseille train can look back on an eventful history: after the end of the F1 era long abandoned and then modified for the test track, it continues to reveal itself slowly but surely become a favorite race track, especially for sports car series. First there were special series, returning here, then came the FIA-GT, which is now superseded by the GT1 World Championship. Which enters this weekend in conjunction with the GT3 European Championship, and thus forms the second major event of the jubilee year, after already in April, the Le Mans Series to race at Le Castellet 8h was a guest. further accelerate →

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