Bryan Heitkotter to Drive for Doran Racing in 2012
Following the GT Academy drivers’ successes in the Dubai 24 Hours in January, we brought you news of the three European drivers’ schedules for 2012. As promised, we now have news on Bryan Heitkotter’s plans for the coming season.
Bryan has joined Doran Racing of Ohio, who will be running a Nissan 370Z Nismo RC in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series in the top GS (Grand Sport) class. He’ll be participating on a limited schedule, joining Nissan Z-car veteran BJ Zacharias for their first round of the series (having missed the opener at Daytona in January) at the Barber 200 at Barber Motorsports Park, Alabama, on March 31. The series runs over eight more races through to the end of September:
- March 29-31; Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama
- April 27-28; Kia 200 at Homestead Miami Speedway, Homestead, Florida
- May 11-13; New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, New Jersey
- June 8-9; Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course, Lexington, Ohio
- June 22-23; Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
- June 29 – July 1; Continental Tire 150 at Watkins Glen International – Long Course, Watkins Glen, New York
- July 27; Super Weekend at the Brickyard, Indianapolis, Indiana
- September 7-9; Continental Tire Sportscar Festival Powered By Mazda at Laguna Seca, Salinas, California
- September 28-30; Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, Connecticut
Bryan has also hinted at some other “exciting things” from Nissan in 2012, so stay tuned! Thanks to R1600Turbo for the tip.
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March 15th, 2012 at 8:27 am - #slick1ru2
I prefer the Continental series over the Grand Am races because it has the Camaro, Mustang, BMW battle.
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March 15th, 2012 at 5:48 am - #e30 freek
I spelt Brain lol :p
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March 15th, 2012 at 1:40 am - #Shidapu
Lol at the Forza pic at the GTplanet news section
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March 15th, 2012 at 1:04 am - #stealth646
Not to sound like a nerd but 4 days away from the day of the last DLC for the u.s today jan 18 and todays date is march 14 but if I’m correct pd said every 2 months and they haven’t even mentioned DLC come on pd get the ball rolling people want new cars!!!!!!!!!!!
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March 15th, 2012 at 12:08 am - #SZRT Ice
I feel a DLC announcement coming… I can feel it, it’s like a sense, as if I can smell it, like I can almost taste it… Argh! I need some tracks!
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March 14th, 2012 at 8:51 pm - #BlindArchangel
I hope in the future they scan Watkins Glen International, I live 10 min from the track and it would be cool to race around it in cars that I can’t afford in real life. Maybe I’ll go watch Bryan race in June.
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March 15th, 2012 at 3:32 pm - #Amac500
The Glen is great, very historic course, and one of the very few high speed road courses in North America. I would love to have it for sure, both the long and short course. The short course is a simpler road course, but one of my favorite Grand-Am races, the sprint is very exciting. The long course is just a terrific track, running through the boot and all. It’s one of the top tracks I want for sure.
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March 14th, 2012 at 8:23 pm - #e30 freek
Good luck brain
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March 14th, 2012 at 6:37 pm - #BayneHamlin1121
Good luck to Bryan, hopefully he brings some Ws to Doran Racing. ^^
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March 14th, 2012 at 1:56 pm - #stealth646
Gt5 is getting boring because there any new cars or tracks to play with come on pd get some new dlc
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March 14th, 2012 at 10:58 am - #Mac K
So a fellow GTP member is going to race for real, and all you guys are worried about DLC? Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
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March 14th, 2012 at 3:11 am - #joetruckv8
Since there going to all these tracks, we should get them in future DLC’s? I know highly unlikely, but that would be nice.
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March 13th, 2012 at 7:16 pm - #BobbyBRAKEaNek
Good luck.
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March 13th, 2012 at 6:20 pm - #sandboxgod
Good luck Bryan!
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March 13th, 2012 at 3:58 pm - #Amac500
If his exciting news is adding another Nissian GT-R to the game I will throw my PS3 in a woodchipper
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March 13th, 2012 at 4:00 pm - #Amac500
No, if it is exciting Nissian news relating to GT5 it better be an Oreca Signitech LMP2 car. Any other Nissian and I’m going to my nearest bridge.
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March 13th, 2012 at 4:23 pm - #R1600Turbo
Nissan and Sony/PD have a partnership. Get used to it.
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March 14th, 2012 at 2:39 am - #otaconmutasim
Please,do jump off the bridge. One less idiot complaining on this website.
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March 14th, 2012 at 2:49 am - #MyFavoriteGame
My friends and I jump off bridges all the time, its a really great way to relieve stress….but I digress, get on with the Tweeting Kaz, we need news
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March 15th, 2012 at 12:04 am - #uneaq27
You guys are right about that NISSAN thing. We have 1 too many unless they plan on adding some Amuse GTR35!
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March 15th, 2012 at 3:37 pm - #Amac500
Exactly uneaq27, although all the incredible tilt of Japanesse to American / European cars are annoying, but come on, there are more cars in the world, and even in Nissian, then the GT-R. I mean, if you ask anybody what cars they would add if they were to add about 5 cars or something, nobody will say “I hope for a 73rd Nissian GT-R in PD’s terrific Gran Turismo GT-R game…… Oh wait it’s Gran Turismo 5, not Gran Turismo GT-R?”
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March 13th, 2012 at 3:23 pm - #Ballbagboy
Whens the DLC????? Been waiting ages this time around
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:16 pm - #Toyota2jz
Literally gagging for some DLC news here…
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March 14th, 2012 at 1:20 am - #trk29
LoL
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:14 pm - #Blood*Specter
Would be nice to have the RWD Sumo GTR.
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March 13th, 2012 at 12:17 pm - #Toyota2jz
Who else saw the image of the car and thought it was DLC :L
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:19 pm - #MyFavoriteGame
I def got really exited for a second….I think admin might be trolling
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:36 pm - #R1600Turbo
Your fault for thinking incorrectly.
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March 13th, 2012 at 3:55 pm - #Amac500
Not me because I read the title of the article that accompanied the picture
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March 13th, 2012 at 4:02 pm - #LMSCorvetteGT2
Gee maybe if you read the title to the article you wouldn’t think that.
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March 14th, 2012 at 2:50 am - #MyFavoriteGame
So you guys just assumed that we knows how to read?
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March 14th, 2012 at 12:27 pm - #Toyota2jz
Guys, the page didn’t fit on my screen. It viewed the picture first, and then I saw the title -,-
@MyFavoriteGame I know how to read, I wouldn’t have commented otherwise duh! Haha
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March 13th, 2012 at 11:08 am - #Zuel
The ZED RC, very nice can’t wait to see how ye does. We may see a factory backed team running the GT-R RC later this year. Even though any team running a factory built RC car gets some support.
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You think we might see Bryan in this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DlLZ3d-X8aY#!