10.12.2007 ITALIAN MANUFACTURERS SWEEP THE BOARD AT FIA GT PRIZE GIVING

THOMAS BIAGI

2007 FIA GT1 Champion Thomas Biagi completed a marathon performance, including three award ceremonies and approximately 2,000 kilometres within 24 hours.

MASERATI MC12

The FIA GT1 Championship winning Vitaphone Racing Maserati MC 12 was displayed in front of the FIA Gala Prize Giving event in Paris.

VILANDER MULLER

Toni Vilander and Dirk Müller won the FIA GT2 title after racing to six wins in 10 races in the AF Corse Motorola Ferrari F430GT.

MAURIZIO LESCHIUTTA

Maserati Corse Technical Director Maurizio Leschiutta with the GT1 Manufacturers Cup. Maserati comfortably won the title after finishing 67 points clear of its closest rival, Aston Martin.

Gilles Vannelet and Henri Moser raced to the 2007 GT3 Championship title at the wheel of a Kessel Racing Ferrari F430 GT3, winning three rounds and leading the points standing all season long.

AMATO FERRARI

Mr and Mrs Amato Ferrari with the FIA GT2 Team's trophy. Amato Ferrari's AF Corse outfit dominated the GT2 season, winning 9 out of 10 races and recording four 1-2 finishes to end the season 75 points clear of their nearest rival.

In front of guests of honour Mr Max Mosley, president of the FIA, and Mr Marco Piccinini, vice-president of the FIA, the SRO Motorsport Group held its 2007 prize-giving in Monaco on Saturday December 7th.

Pit-lane reporter Anne-Laure Bonnet presented the evening,  awarding trophies to the winners from the GT4 European Cup, the FIA GT3 European Championship and the FIA GT Championship.

Among the special prizes, GT3 Champion Henri Moser was presented with a cheque representing a prize-fund of 150,000 euros from SRO and Cessna Citation, plus a year’s worth of tyres from Michelin, to allow him to move up to the FIA GT Championship in 2008. The FIA GT Driver Performance of the Year, voted for by journalists and SRO, was awarded to Jetalliance’s Karl Wendlinger, for his three poles and three wins in the nr 33 Aston Martin DBR9.

2007 FIA GT1 Champion Thomas Biagi completed a marathon performance, including three award ceremonies and approximately 2000 kilometres within 24 hours, going from the FIA prize-giving gala to the Bologna Motor Show and back to Monaco to receive his trophy from Mr Piccinini. Mr Matthias Quinger of Vitaphone and Mr Maurizio Leschiutta of Maserati collected the trophies for the GT1 Winning Team and GT1 Manufacturers Cup respectively.

In GT2, Dirk Müller and Toni Vilander collected trophies for Winning Drivers, Mr Amato Ferrari collected the Teams trophy for AF Corse Motorola, and Mr Antonello Coletta received the GT2 Manufacturers Cup. In GT3, Henri Moser and Gilles Vannelet were celebrated as the winning drivers.


 

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