With three rounds remaining, the fight is still very much alive in the FIA GT Championship.  In the GT1 category, Vitaphone Racing Team continues to lead both Teams and Drivers classifications, with Bartels and Bertolini on track to repeat their 2006 title-winning feat.  However, Phoenix Carsport Racing’s duo of Hezemans and Gollin are just 11 points adrift, while Hezemans won the Nogaro round last year, in the Carsport Corvette he then shared with Jean-Denis Deletraz.  The eight Vitaphone and Phoenix drivers occupy the top four positions in the Drivers classifications, and the two teams also head the Teams classification.   They will face plenty of opposition in France, first and foremost from local hero Christophe Bouchut, who is determined to see the SRT Corvette return to the top of the podium for his home round.  And the Brno winners, Wendlinger and Sharp, are on a high after a fine weekend in the Czech Republic. This round will also see a newcomer in the form of  DKR Engineering, a race-winner in the FFSA French GT Championship, which will join the grid with its Corvette C6R, while  Larbre Competition will make its long-awaited return with the nr 7 Saleen S7, damaged after a warm-up crash in Spa.


Fonte: Media FIA GT - 16.FIA_GT_Nogaro_preview_2008.pdf