Sumo Power GT

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Sumo Power GT
legal form Limited Company (Ltd.)
founding 2010
Seat Rye , UK
management James Rumsey
Branch Motorsport

Sumo Power GT was an English motorsport team that was active in the field of Gran Turismo and took part in the FIA GT1 World Championship from 2010 to 2011 . The team belonged to JR Motorsports (JRM).

history

The racing team Sumo Power GT was founded in 2010 by JR Motorsports in cooperation with Nismo , the motorsport division of the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan . The name of the team received from the British since 2002 active tuning -Vertrieb Sumo Power , who had previously been in the rally - and drift sport was active and merged in 2009 with JRM.

2010

A Nissan GT-R from Sumo Power GT at Silverstone 2010

In 2010, Sumo Power GT and the Swiss Racing Team fielded two Nissan GT-Rs in the newly announced FIA GT1 World Championship . One driver pairing consisted of former FIA GT champion Jamie Campbell-Walter , who shared a vehicle with the experienced British GT driver Warren Hughes . The German Nismo works driver Michael Krumm and the former DTM driver Peter Dumbreck formed the other together.

The team's greatest achievement was the victory of Campbell-Walter and Hughes after the disqualification of the Aston Martin DBR9 by Tomáš Enge and Darren Turner at the prestigious RAC Tourist Trophy in Silverstone . Krumm and Dumbreck won the qualifying race in Portugal , but several other podiums for both driver pairs were only enough for sixth place in the team classification. Nissan also came in sixth and last in the manufacturers' championship.

2011

A Sumo Power GT Nissan GT-R at Silverstone 2011

After the Swiss Racing Team switched from Nissan to Lamborghini , JRM fielded four Nissan GT-Rs in the FIA GT1 World Championship : two under their own name, two as Sumo Power GT. Sumo Power GT started the season with the Brazilian duo of the two former Formula 1 drivers Enrique Bernoldi and Ricardo Zonta as well as Jamie Campbell-Walter and the Le Mans winner David Brabham . Michael Krumm and Peter Dumbreck officially switched to the JR Motorsports team .

After Ricardo Zonta left the team after the first third of the season, Warren Hughes took over for two events before Nicky Catsburg rode with Enrique Bernoldi for the rest of the year. Only Campbell-Walter and Brabham came on the podium, so Sumo Power only finished fifth in the team standings, while JR Motorsports narrowly missed the team world championship title and achieved the drivers' title with Krumm and Lucas Luhr .

After the FIA ​​GT1 World Championship changed to the GT3 group regulations in 2012, neither JRM nor Sumo Power GT competed again.

Results

FIA GT1 World Championship

year Team name Make No.
1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th Total Item
2010 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sumo Power GT Nissan 22nd 13 12 5 1 21st 17th 3 8th 19th 11 16 8th 9 Ret 5 3 14th Ret 13 16 130 6th
23 11 16 8th Ret 3 3 9 2 8th Ret Ret 15th 1 4th 16 Ret 2 6th 6th Ret
2011 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sumo Power GT Nissan 20th 4th Ret 12 Ret 8th 7th 4th 4th 4th 7th Ret 12 10 7th 5 Ret 10 6th 4th 4th 154 5
21st 8th 9 11 Ret 3 3 8th 5 Ret Ret 4th 3 9 4th 3 7th 11 8th 7th Ret
Legend
colour abbreviation meaning
gold - victory
silver - 2nd place
bronze - 3rd place
green - Placement in the points
blue - Classified outside the point ranks
violet DNF Race not finished (did not finish)
NC not classified
red DNQ did not qualify
DNPQ failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black DSQ disqualified
White DNS not at the start (did not start)
WD withdrawn
Light Blue PO only participated in the training (practiced only)
TD Friday test driver
without DNP did not participate in the training (did not practice)
INJ injured or sick
EX excluded
DNA did not arrive
C. Race canceled
  no participation in the World Cup
other P / bold Pole position
SR / italic Fastest race lap
* not at the finish,
but counted due to the distance covered
() Streak results
underlined Leader in the overall standings


Picture gallery

Web links

Commons : Sumo Power GT  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact ( EN ) Archived from the original on May 26, 2010. Retrieved on February 13, 2013.
  2. ↑ Sumo Power GT . In: media.gt1world.com . SRO Motorsports Group . Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  3. ^ A b Roman Wittemeier: Two teams, each with two Nissan (DE) . In: motorsport-total.com , Motorsport-Total.com GmbH, January 14, 2010. Accessed on February 13, 2013.