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Wet and dry work out for DBR9

Gigawave MotorSport’s build up to its debut season got some valuable wet weather testing at Nogaro. Heavy rain on the first day caused numerous cars to go off on the tight circuit but the Aston Martin DBR9 emerged with some quick times with the start of the Championship less than 3 weeks away.

Day two was a dryer affair, allowing the car to get back on slicks and give drivers, Allan Simonsen and Philipp Peter valuable experience of the Nogaro track which they will race later in the year.

The team and the car head to the season opener at Silverstone full of confidence following a successful pre-season, clocking highly competitive times at each test.

Team Manager Steve Hagger wasn’t too disappointed with the weather, “it was good to do some testing in the rain, it’s the first we’ve done as a team and I felt the drivers and the car handled it well.”

2008 testing in full swing

Gigawave MotorSport continued its impressive pre-season form at the official FIA GT test in Monza. The Aston Martin DBR9 was the second fastest of the two-day test clocking a best time of 1’45’’585.

Driver Philipp Peter was joined by Darren Turner, who will be the third driver at the Total 24 at Spa in round 5 of the Championship, meaning all three drivers for the season have now had valuable test time in the car.

Last week’s Aston Martin Racing Test saw Gigawave MotorSport again showing its pace with the fastest time on day 1 of the Aston Martin Racing test at Paul Ricard.

Team Manager Steve Hagger was very positive about the team’s chances. “Bringing the car up from 2005 spec to 2007 spec has improved the performance dramatically, we are lapping 2 seconds quicker than before which is putting us right up there with the main challengers. This bodes very well for the forthcoming season.”

The FIA GT Championship is moving to High Definition coverage for the 2008 season with the help of Gigawave. The announcement will see Gigawave providing the Championship with the latest fully HD On-board Camera Systems that it has been developing over the past season. Its HD D-Cam Wireless Camera Systems will provide high definition Pit Lane coverage.

This marks the natural progression in Gigawave’s continual striving to further develop its already market leading Digital On-board Systems which are used in the major international motorsport championships. The HD D-Cam is already in daily use in sports and ENG applications and has been used at such events as the FA Cup Final, Red Bull Air Race and RBS 6 Nations rugby.

SRO, the promoter of the FIA GT Championship has decided to move into HD in preparation for the competition becoming a world series in 2010, and has become one of the first major race series to go HD.

Together with Gigawave and Greenlight TV, SRO feel they have the relevant expertise to take the jump into HD and give fans the chance to witness premier sportscar racing in all its glory.

The stunning HD On-board camera footage can be seen live on the Internet at www.gt1live.tv throughout the 2008 FIA GT Championship.

Gigawave MotorSport warms up for '08 Campaign

After much hard work during the off-season, Gigawave MotorSport’s Aston Martin DBR9 was put through its paces for the first time this year at Paul Ricard in France.

The many updates and changes made to the car throughout the winter have been hugely beneficial as the DBR9 was the fastest GT1 car of the opening day of the 2 day Aston Martin Racing test, clocking an impressive 1min 53 for the 5.8km test track.

It was the first chance for the driver line-up of Philipp Peter and Allan Simonsen to work together and add their considerable experience to the set-up of the car.

Team Principal Fenton Yeulett was pleased to see the winter updates proving effective already. “Its been important for the Team to understand the aero balance and geometry changes that have been added during the off-season, we now know we are heading in the right direction and are confident of progressing on the track in our remaining tests.”