2012 GT Academy Racing Updates & News - CLOSED

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All I've heard about is how Jann might get a seat in F3 this year.
 
Yeah he'll be racing a Toyota single seater over the summer. (Posted above) Just not 100% sure what everyone else is doing.
 
Louie_Schumii
Jann will be racing in the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand this summer.
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Yeah he'll be racing a Toyota single seater over the summer.
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Note that summer in NZ is winter here. The TRS only runs until February.
 
Guy's a natural, so glad to have gotten to meet Jann. Looking forward to race results.
 
So qualifying starts in a few minutes for TRS series. Live timing link: http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/calendar-results/live-timing

Lucas got pole for first race, Félix got it for third race. It was raining on second session.

Jann got 10th place in first one and 7th in third one.

Second qualification looked promising, was on pole position at one point. A good starting point to build upon. Good chance to be Rookie champion this season.

Race result was 11th for 1st race so that is starting position for Jann in race 2.
 
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So qualifying starts in a few minutes for TRS series. Live timing link: http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/calendar-results/live-timing

Lucas got pole for first race, Félix got it for second race. It was raining on second session.

Jann got 10th place in first one and 7th in second one.

Second qualification looked promising, was on pole position at one point. A good starting point to build upon. Good chance to be Rookie champion this season.
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Nissan train their drivers up real good. Might make the trek to the Hampton Downs round and say hi to Jann and enjoy the racing since it's only about an hour and a half drive away.
 
Louie_Schumii
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Nissan train their drivers up real good. Might make the trek to the Hampton Downs round and say hi to Jann and enjoy the racing since it's only about an hour and a half drive away.
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might? haha do it man you wont regret it!
 
A good day for GT Academy participants with 2nd place class finish in Dubai with the 127 car and second car at least making the finish. Jann also being top rookie in the TRS so far 👍.
 
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Good progress by Jann so far. 11th First Race, 9th Second Race and 7th Third Race.

Pace should improve with time with better setups due to more data and understanding in team, as well as building of confidence and experience. Impressive so far 👍.

Some videos of the 2013 series here.
 
This is video interview with Jann when starting the series:
Jann Interview

Anyway Jann topped Test session 2 of today at Timaru and showed some serious pace as well as being fast consistently too in session. Two times good enough enough for 1st position one after another, fastest lap being faster than lap record. Looking so far to be building up for a very strong weekend, hope he can continue form for rest of weekend. Impressive stuff 👍.
 
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That's amazing, super congrat's to him, wow, can't imagine.
 
What's he doing in something other than a Nissan? :p
 
It's part of the development program, they drove a LOT of different cars. Nissan doesn't really care what their drivers use to get better, what matters is the cars they drive for championships, which will always be Nissans or Nissan powered.
 
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Jann still getting plenty of press over here in New Zealand. Great to have him representing GT Academy well in open wheel.

http://www.toyotaracing.co.nz/gamer-turned-racer#more-7078

http://www.bam-promo.com/news/etec-hopeful-turn-practice-performance-podiums

I'll be going to Hampton Downs tomorrow. Will be nice to see a GT Academy winner racing in person for a change.
 
Enjoy watching race. Jann looks to be most competitive he has been so far. He nearly stuck it on pole for first race, was only 0.052 off, good enough for 2nd place though:tup:. If only Mitch never showed up, but I guess it helps quite a lot for Jann's career with more people watching. The race will be very tricky given the levels of experience and speed others have. If he can get any place on podium, that will be a massive result. Amazing to think just over a year and a bit a go, Jann was doing some races to get his international race licence to compete in Dubai 24 Hours race.

About second qualifying session, very similar time which was enough for 8th but still quite impressive considering running a lot less laps than everybody else.

Edit: A bit of a disaster at start of race one for Jann, lost front and rear wing. I wonder how that happened, will find out soon.

Edit 2: Still don't know what happened, saw that Jann was in 15th place at restart of race and managed to come back to 6th place. Quite a crazy race, Jann showed very good pace at end of race, for sure on pace of leaders so a shame about what happened at start. Will help him get noticed still. What a comeback given how short the races are.
 
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Enjoy watching race. Jann looks to be most competitive he has been so far. He nearly stuck it on pole for first race, was only 0.052 off, good enough for 2nd place though:tup:. If only Mitch never showed up, but I guess it helps quite a lot for Jann's career with more people watching. The race will be very tricky given the levels of experience and speed others have. If he can get any place on podium, that will be a massive result. Amazing to think just over a year and a bit a go, Jann was doing some races to get his international race licence to compete in Dubai 24 Hours race.

About second qualifying session, very similar time which was enough for 8th but still quite impressive considering running a lot less laps than everybody else.

Edit: A bit of a disaster at start of race one for Jann, lost front and rear wing. I wonder how that happened, will find out soon.

Edit 2: Still don't know what happened, saw that Jann was in 15th place at restart of race and managed to come back to 6th place. Quite a crazy race, Jann showed very good pace at end of race, for sure on pace of leaders so a shame about what happened at start. Will help him get noticed still. What a comeback given how short the races are.
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This is what happened in race 1. Jann had to start from the pit-lane after this but drove a hell of a race after that to finish 6th.

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This is what happened in race 1. Jann had to start from the pit-lane after this but drove a hell of a race after that to finish 6th.

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Just saw on twitter from Nick Cassidy he did start from pit-lane and with a damaged car. So he must have overtaken 4 people on first lap of restart. Could have had podium if it weren't for Bruno going over back of his car but this will get him noticed probably even more.

Anyway here is a picture showing how bad it got:

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Thankfully he got away without being hurt which is main thing and did an awesome comeback drive

I wonder how they got car fixed within a very short period of time the restart happened. That is still confusing as I have not seen any detailed info regarding that yet. If car was indeed damaged, then it is mighty impressive his fastest lap was only 0.073 slower than fastest.
 
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I wonder how they got car fixed within a very short period of time the restart happened. That is still confusing as I have not seen any detailed info regarding that yet. If car was indeed damaged, then it is mighty impressive his fastest lap was only 0.073 slower than fastest.
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The cars all had to line up the grid for the restart. I was surprised Jann didn't go straight into the pits after the incident but it might've worked to his favour since the ETEC team spent at least 5 minutes on the grid trying to get his car fixed and then another 5 doing more of the same in the pit lane while the rest of the field did there warm-up lap.

Everything considered the race could've gone better but at the same time could've been a lot worse. A podium or even a race win isn't too far away now for sure.
 
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