The 2013 FIA GT Series grid guide
The new-look sportscar series gets underway this weekend. Gary Watkins works his way through the entry to assess the runners and riders
The FIA GT Series bursts into life at Nogaro this weekend after the same kind of winter of uncertainty that dogged its predecessor, the FIA GT1 World Championship.
Series boss Stephane Ratel has, however, weaved his spell one more time and put together a grid that surpasses last year's GT1 World line-up in both quantity and, arguably, quality.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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