The FIA GT1 World Championship was launched to the world at the Automobile Club de France in the Place de la Concorde, Paris today. Jean Todt, President of the Fédération Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA), presided over the unveiling of the cars, teams and drivers that will compete in the 2010 Championship. Mr Todt, along with Stephane Ratel, CEO of the world championship promoters SRO Motorsport Group, spoke at length to a room full of international media, teams and VIP guests before travelling to the Place Vendôme to unveil 12 of the GT1 supercars.

During the development of our ambitious project we made contact with the Phoenix Racing Team, which is situated near the Nürburgring. They are supervising many R8's in European FIA GT3, Belgian GT, German ADAC GT Masters and the VLN Endurance Championship. Exceptionally we want to thank the team a lot for their support with graphical logos, information and friendly personal assistance. Person in support is Jens Nothelle, project manager marketing customer sports Audi R8 LMS.

In the beginning we thought about the idea of a conversion of Bulldogs R8 LMS from GTR2 to rF and rF2, but after a few steps in cooperation with NLC's Rafael1976 we decided to build a scratch made new version of the R8 for rF and rF2. At the moment the status is that the 3D model is nearly done, the cockpit is completely new, scratch build, with a high detail level. Mapping, Wheels, Lods and Textures will probably take a while. So stay stuned!

At this years 24h race in Spa the Phoenix Racing team made a big surprise: Marc Basseng, Marcel Fässler, Alexandros Margaritis and Henri Moser finished in a sensational 3rd place overall and a superior victory in the G2 class. They finished ahead of all GT2 and GT1 cars, built for 2010 rules.