The 2014 Blancpain Endurance Series season was the fourth season of the Blancpain Endurance Series . The season started on 12 April at Monza and ended on 21 September at the Nürburgring . The season featured five rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of three hours besides the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and the 1000 km Nürburgring events.
The main trophy of the series, the Pro Cup for drivers, was won by Laurens Vanthoor of the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT squad; Vanthoor won each of the last two races to be held during the season, winning at Spa with René Rast and Markus Winkelhock at the Nürburgring with César Ramos and Christopher Mies . Vanthoor finished 36 points clear of his nearest rivals, Steven Kane , Andy Meyrick and Guy Smith , driving a Bentley for M-Sport . The trio also won two races during the season, at Le Castellet and Silverstone . The season opening round was won by ART Grand Prix , with drivers Grégoire Demoustier , Álvaro Parente and Alexandre Prémat . Belgian Audi Club Team WRT were the winners of the teams' championship, finishing 32 points clear of M-Sport and HTP Motorsport .
Despite not winning a race over the course of the season, Scuderia Villorba Corse drivers Stefano Gai and Andrea Rizzoli were the winners of the Pro-Am Cup. Francesco Castellacci finished in third position; having been a part of the Villorba Corse line-up with Gai and Rizzoli earlier in the season, Castellacci contested the final round with AF Corse . The highest-placed race winners were Henry Hassid and Nick Catsburg , who finished fourth in the championship, as the only crew to win more than one event in the Pro-Am Cup. Scuderia Villorba Corse won the teams' championship, three points ahead of TDS Racing. AF Corse's Peter Mann and Francisco Guedes won the Gentlemen Drivers' Trophy, finishing eight points clear of GT Corse by Rinaldi pairing Alexander Mattschull and Frank Schmickler, who won three races to the single victory of Mann and Guedes. AF Corse also denied GT Corse by Rinaldi the teams' title, by just a single point.
Calendar [ edit ] In November 2013, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the 2014 calendar.[1] The calendar was the same as the previous season . The race at Circuit Paul Ricard was held on Saturday evening, finishing in night-time conditions.
Entry list [ edit ] 2014 Entry List Team Car Drivers Rounds Pro Cup Belgian Audi Club Team WRT [2] Audi R8 LMS ultra 1 Laurens Vanthoor All César Ramos 1–3, 5 Marc Basseng 1–3 René Rast 4 Markus Winkelhock 4 Christopher Mies 5 2 André Lotterer 4 Marcel Fässler 4 Benoît Tréluyer 4 3 Christopher Mies 1–4 Frank Stippler All James Nash All Marc Basseng 5 M-Sport Bentley Bentley Continental GT3 7 Steven Kane All Guy Smith All Andy Meyrick All 8 Jérôme d'Ambrosio All Duncan Tappy All Antoine Leclerc All Emil Frey Racing Jaguar XK Emil Frey G3 14 Fredy Barth 5 Gabriele Gardel 5 Jonathan Hirschi 5 Black Falcon Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 19 Abdulaziz Al Faisal All Hubert Haupt All Andreas Simonsen All 63 Mike Parisy 4 Adam Christodoulou 4 Yelmer Buurman 4 Saintéloc Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra 26 Stéphane Ortelli All Grégory Guilvert All Edward Sandström All Leonard Motorsport AMR Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 32 Stuart Leonard 2 Paul Wilson 2 Jonathan Adam 2 Oman Racing Team Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 44 Michael Caine All Ahmad Al Harthy All Stephen Jelley 1–4 Joe Osborne [3] 5 Brothers Racing Team Audi R8 LMS ultra 55 Cheng Congfu 1–3 Sun Zheng 1–3 André Couto 1–3 BMW Sports Trophy Team Marc VDS BMW Z4 GT3 66 Maxime Martin 4 Jörg Müller 4 Augusto Farfus 4 77 Lucas Luhr 4 Markus Palttala 4 Dirk Werner 4 ISR Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra 75 Filip Salaquarda 4 Fabian Hamprecht 4 Marc Basseng 4 HTP Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 84 Harold Primat All Nico Verdonck All Maximilian Buhk 1, 3 Bernd Schneider 2, 4–5 85 Sergey Afanasyev All Stef Dusseldorp All Lucas Wolf 1–3 Xavier Maassen 4 Maximilian Buhk 5 86 Maximilian Buhk 4 Maximilian Götz 4 Jazeman Jaafar 4 Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo FL2 [4] 88 Peter Kox 1 Albert von Thurn und Taxis 1 Tomáš Enge 1 ART Grand Prix McLaren MP4-12C GT3 98 Grégoire Demoustier All Álvaro Parente All Alexandre Prémat 1–2, 5 Nicolas Lapierre 3–4 99 Andy Soucek All Kevin Korjus All Kévin Estre All Von Ryan Racing McLaren MP4-12C GT3 101 Shane van Gisbergen 4 Rob Bell 4 Tim Mullen 4 Triple 888 Racing BMW Z4 GT3 888 Jody Firth 5 Warren Hughes 5 Alexander Sims 5 Audi Race Experience Audi R8 LMS ultra 1000 Didier Cuche 5 Rahel Frey 5 Nico Müller 5 Pro-Am Cup Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra 4 Jean-Luc Blanchemain 4–5 Christian Kelders 4–5 Fred Bouvy 4 Vincent Radermecker 4 Stéphane Richelmi 5 TDS Racing BMW Z4 GT3 10 Eric Clément All Benjamin Lariche All Nicolas Armindo All Olivier Pla 4 12 Henry Hassid All Nick Catsburg All Pierre Thiriet 4 Jens Klingmann 4 Kessel Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 11 Michał Broniszewski All Alessandro Bonacini All Giacomo Petrobelli 1–2 Marco Frezza 3–5 Giacomo Piccini 4 Emil Frey Racing [5] Jaguar XK Emil Frey G3 14 Fredy Barth 1–4 Lorenz Frey 1–4 Gabriele Gardel 1–4 Jonathan Hirschi 4 Boutsen Ginion [5] McLaren MP4-12C GT3 15 Karim Ojjeh 1–4 Olivier Grotz 1–4 Frédéric Vervisch 1–4 Giorgio Pantano 4 16 Shahan Sarkissian All Alex Demirdjian 1–4 Phil Quaife 1–2 Chris van der Drift 3–5 Michael Schmetz 4 Jordan Grogor 5 Insightracing with Flex-Box[5] Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 17 Dennis Andersen All Martin Jensen All Jason Yeomans 4 Black Falcon Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 18 Vladimir Lunkin All Yury Loboda 1–3 Mikhail Loboda 1–3 Richard Muscat 4 Saud Turki Al Faisal 4 Christian Bracke 4 Anders Fjordbach 5 Devon Modell 5 Lago Racing Lamborghini Gallardo LP600 23 Roger Lago 4 David Russell 4 Steven Richards 4 Steve Owen 4 Leonard Motorsport AMR Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 32 Stuart Leonard 4–5 Paul Wilson 4–5 Michael Meadows 4–5 Pedro Lamy 4 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 35 Miguel Faísca All Katsumasa Chiyo All Mark Shulzhitskiy 1, 4 Stanislav Aksenov 2–3 Masataka Yanagida 4 Wolfgang Reip 5 80 Florian Strauss All Nick McMillen All Alex Buncombe All Wolfgang Reip 4 MP Motorsport AMR [6] Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 38 Richard Abra All Mark Poole All Joe Osborne All Darren Turner 4 Sport Garage Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 42 Gilles Vannelet 1–3 Michael Albert 1–3 Stéphane Lemeret 1–3 ROAL Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3 43 Stefano Comandini All Eugenio Amos All Stefano Colombo 1, 3–4 Michela Cerruti 2, 4–5 AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 50 Andrew Danyliw All Simon Knap All Andrea Sonvico All Alessandro Pier Guidi 4 52 Steve Wyatt 4 Michele Rugolo 4 Craig Lowndes 4 Andrea Piccini 4 Johnny Laursen 5 Marco Seefried 5 Francesco Castellacci 5 53 Niek Hommerson 4 Louis Machiels 4 Andrea Bertolini 4 Marco Cioci 4 54 Duncan Cameron 4 Matt Griffin 4 Alex Mortimer 4 Graff Racing Porsche 997 GT3 R 70 Eric Trouillet 1–3 Nicolas Marroc 1–2 Roland Bervillé 3 Lonni Martins 3 Ecurie Ecosse [7] BMW Z4 GT3 79 Oliver Bryant All Andrew Smith All Alasdair McCaig All Alexander Sims 4 GT Russian Team McLaren MP4-12C GT3 82 Alexey Vasilyev 4 Marko Asmer 4 Kazim Vasiliauskas 4 Florian Spengler 4 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Alexey Vasilyev 5 Marko Asmer 5 Karim Al Azhari 5 Scuderia Villorba Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 90 Andrea Rizzoli All Francesco Castellacci 1–4 Stefano Gai All Andrea Montermini 4 Thomas Kemenater 5 Pro GT by Alméras Porsche 997 GT3 R 93 Eric Dermont 1–4 Franck Perera 1–4 Marco Bonanomi 4 Lucas Lasserre 4 PGF-Kinfaun AMR Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 96 John Gaw 4 Phil Dryburgh 4 Paul White 4 Tom Onslow-Cole 4 SMP Racing Russian Bears Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 100 Viacheslav Maleev 4 Roman Mavlanov 4 José Manuel Pérez-Aicart 4 Daniel Zampieri 4 Beechdean AMR Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 107 Andrew Howard 2, 4 Daniel Lloyd 2, 4 Alex MacDowall 2 Jonathan Adam 4 Stefan Mücke 4 SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 116 Fabien Barthez 4 Eric Debard 4 Ludovic Badey 4 Tristan Vautier 4 120 Christophe Bourret 4 Pascal Gibon 4 Jean-Philippe Belloc 4 Julien Canal 4 Wochenspiegel Team Manthey Porsche 997 GT3 R 150 Georg Weiss 4 Oliver Kainz 4 Jochen Krumbach 4 Christian Menzel 4 Fach Auto Tech Porsche 997 GT3 R 188 Otto Klohs 4 Swen Dolenc 4 Martin Ragginger 4 Philipp Frommenwiler 4 Generation Bentley Racing Bentley Continental GT3 200 James Appleby 2 Steve Tandy 2 Jody Fannin 2 GT Corse by Rinaldi Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 333 Marco Seefried 1–4 Vadim Kogay 1–4 Rinat Salikhov 1–4 Norbert Siedler 4 Triple 888 Racing BMW Z4 GT3 888 Ryan Ratcliffe 2 Lee Mowle 2 Derek Johnston 2 Am Cup Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra 2 Stéphane Pourquie 3 Harry Teneketzian 3 Grégoire Chaix 3 4 Jean-Luc Blanchemain 1–3 Christian Kelders 1, 3 Yves Weerts 1–2 Pierre Hirschi 2–3 Boutsen Ginion BMW Z4 GT3 15 Karim Ojjeh 5 Olivier Grotz 5 Team Parker Racing [5] Audi R8 LMS ultra 22 Ian Loggie All Julian Westwood All Chris Jones 1–3 Leo Machitski 4 Carl Rosenblad 4 Saintéloc Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra 25 Claude-Yves Gosselin All Jean-Claude Lagniez 1–3 Marc Sourd 1–3 Marc Rostan 4–5 Jean-Paul Buffin 4–5 Philippe Haezebrouck 4 Sport Garage Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 41 Bernard Delhez All George Cabannes 1–4 Romain Brandela 1–2 Sylvain Debs 3 Michael Albert 4–5 Thierry Prignault 4 Bruce Lorgère-Roux 5 42 Gilles Vannelet 4–5 Martin Van Hove 4 Beniamino Caccia 4 Lorenzo Bontempelli 4 Michaël Petit 5 Paul Surand 5 AF Corse [8] Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 49 Howard Blank All Jean-Marc Bachelier All Yannick Mallegol All François Perrodo 4 51 Peter Mann All Francisco Guedes All Filipe Barreiros 1–3, 5 Cédric Mézard 4 Alexander Talkanitsa 4 GDL Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 67 Nigel Fermer 4 Keong Liam Lim 4 Jean-Charles Perrin 4 Gianluca de Lorenzi 4 Scuderia Villorba Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 91 Cédric Mézard 3 François Perrodo 3 Kessel Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 111 Stephen Earle All Freddy Kremer All Daniele Perfetti 1 Marcus Mahy 2, 4 Beniamino Caccia 3 Liam Talbot 4–5 Horse Power Racing Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 128 Paul Bailey 2 Andy Schulz 2 Delahaye Racing Porsche 997 GT3 R 228 Pierre-Etienne Bordet 4 Alexandre Viron 4 Stephane Lemeret 4 Karim Al-Azhari 4 Duqueine Engineering Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 350 Leonardo Gorini 3–4 Gilles Duqueine 3–4 Paul Lanchere 3–4 Philippe Colançon 4 380 Phillipe Richard 4 Phillipe Bourgeois 4 Pierre Hirschi 4 Marlène Broggi 4 GT Corse by Rinaldi Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 458 Alexander Mattschull All Pierre Ehret 1, 3–5 Frank Schmickler 1–3, 5 Tim Müller 4 Roger Grouwels 4
Results and standings [ edit ] Race results [ edit ] Championship Standings [ edit ] Scoring system Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. There were no points awarded for the Pole Position.
Championship Race points Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
1000 km Paul Ricard points Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 33 24 19 15 12 9 6 4 2 1
24 Hours of Spa points Points were awarded after six hours, after twelve hours and at the finish.
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points after 6hrs/12hrs 12 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Points at the finish 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Drivers' Championships [ edit ] Pro Cup [ edit ] Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)
Teams' Championship [ edit ] Pro Cup [ edit ] [9]
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