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FIA GT1 World Championship 2012

The global expansion of the FIA GT1 World Championship continues with theaddition of new venues on the 2012 calendar announced by the FIA.

GT1 World will have rounds in Europe, supported by the FIA GT3 EuropeanChampionship, visiting Nogaro and Zandvoort for the first time. There will furtherrounds outside of Europe, with standalone events in Ordos, Beijing, Argentina andRussia.

The 2012 season will start at Circuit Paul Armagnac near Nogaro on April 8th at thetraditional season opener at the circuit situated in south-west France.

Three weeks later the next joint event will take place at Zolder, with the GT1 WorldChampionship returning to the Belgian circuit after a successful event last season.

Navarra in Northern Spain will once again play host to both series at the end of May.The drivers and team return to the Iberian Peninsula in July, racing at the Algarvecircuit near Portimao in Portugal which has become firmly established on the

calendar.

The first of the non-European rounds will be held in August with GT1 returning toChina for back-to-back weekends, first in Beijing then onto Ordos. The cars willreturn west and head to Moscow where the venue is the 2.5mile/4km MoscowRaceway located 75km from the Russian capital.

Then its back to Europe for GT1 Worlds first visit to Zandvoort and then thechampionship finale in Argentina in November.

A tenth round of the FIA GT1 World Championship will be announced next month.

The FIA GT3 European Championship will support GT1. Nogaro and Moscow are

two new venues and GT3 returns to Zolder for the first time since the 2009 seasonfinale. GT3 will return to Navarra, Algarve and Zandvoort following highly successfulevents in 2011.

The 2012 calendar is very exciting and, with six dates being joint GT1 and GT3events, it will provide everyone teams, drivers, sponsors and race fans with agreat weekend of GT racing, said Stephane Ratel. The mix of European andoverseas events is the right balance and Im very pleased that we will be going toMoscow next year, which, like China, is a very important market. It will mark anotherfirst for SRO and the FIA GT Championships.

In these tough economic times we have to plan each event carefully and all the GT3European races will be held on the same weekend as GT1, Ratel continued. One of

the advantages of this means we will give the race fans even more to see on each ofthese weekends. GT3 will also travel to Moscow, which promises to be one of thehighlights of the season.

The two races in China were very successful in 2011 and the events in Ordos andBeijing in 2012 promise to be even bigger and better. GT1 World will be seen atOlympic Park next year and we are working hard to get permission to stage a streetrace after the success of the demonstration night race held at the venue inSeptember.

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This calendar, and the move to harmonized GT3 technical regulations, offers boththe FIA GT1 World and FIA GT3 European Championships stability in 2012 andbeyond.

2012 FIA GT1 World Championship Calendar

8th April FRA Nogaro

22nd April BEL Zolder***

27th May ESP Navarra

8th July PRT Algarve

26th August CHN Beijing **

2nd September CHN Ordos **

16th September RUS Moscow *

7th October NLD Zandvoort

25th November ARG San Luis *

TBA TBA TBA

2012 FIA GT3 European Championship Calendar

8th April FRA Nogaro

22nd April BEL Zolder***

27th May ESP Navarra

8th July PRT Algarve

16th September RUS Moscow *

7th October NLD Zandvoort

TBA TBA TBA

* Subject to the ASN's confirmation and the FIA homologation of the circuit** Subject to the confirmation from the ASN and to the contract with the promoter*** Subject to the homologation of the circuit.