Blancpain Endurance Series 2012

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The Blancpain Endurance Series 2012 was the second season of the Blancpain Endurance Series . The series run by the SRO Motorsports Group consisted of six race weekends in 2012. The highlight of the season was the 24-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps , which also counted towards the championship.

entry list

On February 17, 2012 a preliminary list of entries for the first race of the season in Monza was published, which included more than 50 vehicles; including vehicles from the teams of the FIA GT1 World Championship participants AF Corse , Belgian Audi Club WRT , Reiter Engineering and Vita4One .

Racing calendar

The SRO published the routes and dates for the six races of the 2012 season on December 9, 2011.

No. date Racetrack Winner GT3 Pro Winner GT3 Pro-Am Winner GT3 Gentlemen Trophy
01 April 15th ItalyItaly Monza BelgiumBelgium Bas Leinder's maxim Martin Markus Palttala
BelgiumBelgium 
FinlandFinland 
ItalyItaly Eugenio Amos Alessandro Bonacini Giacomo Petrobelli
ItalyItaly 
ItalyItaly 
VenezuelaVenezuela Paolo Andreasi Beniamino Caccia Pablo Paladino
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
ArgentinaArgentina 
02 3rd of June United KingdomUnited Kingdom Silverstone BelgiumBelgium Bas Leinder's maxim Martin Markus Palttala
BelgiumBelgium 
FinlandFinland 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marc Hayek Peter Kox
NetherlandsNetherlands 
SwedenSweden Mikael Bender Jan Brunstedt Jocke Mangs
SwedenSweden 
SwedenSweden 
03 July 1 FranceFrance Le Castellet GermanyGermany Christopher Haase Christopher Mies Stephane Ortelli
GermanyGermany 
MonacoMonaco 
ItalyItaly Andrea Bertolini Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels
NetherlandsNetherlands 
BelgiumBelgium 
FranceFrance Daniel Desbrueres Christian Kelders
BelgiumBelgium 
04th 29th of July BelgiumBelgium Spa Francorchamps ItalyItaly Andrea Piccini René Rast Frank Stippler
GermanyGermany 
GermanyGermany 
ItalyItaly Andrea Bertolini Alessandro Pier Guidi Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels
ItalyItaly 
NetherlandsNetherlands 
BelgiumBelgium 
BelgiumBelgium Armand Flumal Bert Redant Steve van Bellingen Johan Vanloo
BelgiumBelgium 
BelgiumBelgium 
BelgiumBelgium 
05 September 23rd GermanyGermany Nürburgring BelgiumBelgium Marc Goossens Marc Hennerici Xavier Maassen
GermanyGermany 
NetherlandsNetherlands 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sean Edwards Steve Jans Oliver Morley
LuxembourgLuxembourg 
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
FranceFrance Daniel Desbrueres Christian Kelders
BelgiumBelgium 
06th October 14th SpainSpain Navarre NetherlandsNetherlands Stef Dusseldorp Frédéric Makowiecki Alvaro Parente
FranceFrance 
PortugalPortugal 
FranceFrance Grégoire Demoustier Duncan Tappy
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
SwedenSweden Mikael Bender Jan Brunstedt Daniel Roos
SwedenSweden 
SwedenSweden 

Ratings

Point system

The points were awarded according to the well-known FIA scheme.

Point system
placement 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10
Points 25th 18th 15th 12 10 8th 6th 4th 2 1

Double points were awarded for the 24-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps. The following award scheme applied:

Point system
placement 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10
Points after 6 hours 12.5 9 7.5 6th 5 4th 3 2 1 0.5
Points after 12 hours 12.5 9 7.5 6th 5 4th 3 2 1 0.5
Points after 24 hours 25th 18th 15th 12 10 8th 6th 4th 2 1

Driver ranking

GT3 Pro

Item driver Points
1. GermanyGermany Christopher Haase 114
GermanyGermany Christopher Mies 114
MonacoMonaco Stéphane Ortelli 114
2. BelgiumBelgium Bas Leinders 111
BelgiumBelgium Maxime Martin 111
FinlandFinland Markus Palttala 111
3. BelgiumBelgium Marc Goosens 72
GermanyGermany Marc Hennerici 72
NetherlandsNetherlands Xavier Maassen 72
4th ItalyItaly Andrea Piccini 62
Item driver Points
5. SwedenSweden Edward Sandström 59
BelgiumBelgium Laurens Vanthoor 59
6th GermanyGermany Frank Stippler 59
7th GermanyGermany Frank Kechele 59
8th. BelgiumBelgium Gregory Franchi 53
9. GermanyGermany René Rast 46
10. ItalyItaly Stefano Gattuso 45
ItalyItaly Davide Rigon 45
ItalyItaly Daniel Zampieri 45
... ... ...

GT3 Pro / Am

Item driver Points
1. NetherlandsNetherlands Niek Hommerson 76
BelgiumBelgium Louis Machiels 76
2. ItalyItaly Andrea Bertolini 67
3. ItalyItaly Eugenio Amos 65
ItalyItaly Alessandro Bonacini 65
ItalyItaly Giacomo Petrobelli 65
4th FranceFrance Jean-Luc Beaubélique 64
FranceFrance Patrice Goueslard 64
5. FranceFrance Grégoire Demoustier 58
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Duncan Tappy 58
Item driver Points
6th FranceFrance Ludovic Badey 54
7th GermanyGermany Hans Guido Riegel 52
GermanyGermany Mike Stursberg 52
8th. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Oliver Morley 50
9. FranceFrance Anthony Beltoise 49
FranceFrance Henry Hassid 49
10. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marc Hayek 46
NetherlandsNetherlands Peter Kox 46
... ... ...

GT3 Gentlemen Trophy

Item driver Points
1. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pierre Hirschi 93
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Robert Hissom 93
2. SwedenSweden Mikael Bender 82
SwedenSweden Jan Brunstedt 82
3. SwedenSweden Jock Mangs 57
4th FranceFrance Daniel Desbrueres 54
BelgiumBelgium Christian Kelders 54
5. FranceFrance Gael Lesoudier 51
FranceFrance Gilles Vannelet 51
6th VenezuelaVenezuela Paolo Andreasi 49
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Beniamino Caccia 49
VenezuelaVenezuela Pablo Paladino 49
Item driver Points
7th BelgiumBelgium Armand Flumal 49
BelgiumBelgium Bert Redant 49
BelgiumBelgium Steve van Bellingen 49
BelgiumBelgium Johan Vanloo 49
8th. FranceFrance Philippe Marie 42
9. SwedenSweden Erik Behrens 39
10. FranceFrance Christophe Decultot 33
FranceFrance Pierre Fontaine 33
... ... ...

Team evaluation

GT3 Pro

Item driver Points
1. BelgiumBelgium Belgian Audi Club Team WRT 127
2. BelgiumBelgium Marc VDS Racing Team 122
3. BelgiumBelgium Prospeed Competition 80
4th GermanyGermany Vita4one Racing Team 68
5. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Kessel Racing 50
6th GermanyGermany Audi Sport Performance cars Team Phoenix 44
7th NetherlandsNetherlands DB Motorsport 30th
8th. FranceFrance Hexis Racing 25th
9. BelgiumBelgium Boutsen Ginion Racing 24
10. BelgiumBelgium KRK Racing 23
... ... ...

GT3 Pro / Am

Item driver Points
1. ItalyItaly AF Corse 94
2. FranceFrance SOFREV ASP 90
3. ItalyItaly Vita4one Team Italy 67
4th FranceFrance ART Grand Prix 60
5. GermanyGermany Black Falcon 59
6th GermanyGermany Haribo Racing Team 56
7th FranceFrance PRO GT by Almeras 54
8th. GermanyGermany Blancpain - rider 50
9. NetherlandsNetherlands DB Motorsport 33
10. BelgiumBelgium Prospeed Competition 30th
... ... ...

GT3 Gentlemen Trophy

Item driver Points
1. FranceFrance Saintéloc Racing 93
2. SwedenSweden JB Motorsport 82
3. BelgiumBelgium Exagon engineering 54
4th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Kessel Racing 49
BelgiumBelgium First motorsport 49
5. FranceFrance Bull Fight Racing 33
6th FranceFrance Ruffier Racing 30th
7th BelgiumBelgium Speedlover 20th
8th. SwedenSweden ALFAB Racing 19th
9. FranceFrance GCR Racing / Guy Clairay 18th
10. unknownunknown Pro GT 7th

swell

  1. 50 inschrijvingen voor Blancpain seizoensopener in Monza . In: Startgrid.be , Startgrid.be, February 17, 2012. Accessed February 18, 2012. 
  2. 2012 Blancpain Endurance Series Calendar . In: Blancpain Endurance Series , Stéphane Ratel Organization , December 9, 2011. Accessed January 1, 2012.