2013 FIA GT Nogaro round

The 2013 FIA GT Nogaro, also known as 2013 Easter Cup (French: Coupes de Pâques 2013) was the first of six rounds in the 2013 FIA GT Series season. It took place at the Circuit Paul Armagnac in France between 30 March – 1 April 2013. The race was the first race under the newly renamed FIA GT Series after the FIA GT1 World Championship name was discontinued due to no GT1-spec cars competing.

The most notable entrants are nine-times World Rally Championship champion Sébastien Loeb racing with his own team and former professional football goalkeeper Fabien Barthez competing racing in the Gentleman Trophy with SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion. Also competing in the race is reigning FIA GT3 European Championship Teams champions HTP Gravity Charouz as well as one of the reigning Drivers' champions from 2012 Maximilian Bühk who will enter in the Pro Cup. His team mate last season Dominik Baumann also competes in the series for Grasser Racing in the Pro-Am Cup.

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Qualifying took place on Saturday 30 March and determined the grid for the Qualifying Race the next day. Rather than the usual knockout qualifying sessions seen in the past series, there were two qualifying sessions for all twenty-four cars. The fastest ten times from the two combined sessions would go through to the Superpole session where they would compete for pole position. Seeing as the first session was partly wet, everybody set their fastest time in session two. As a result, the fastest ten drivers from session two went through to the Superpole session.

René Rast set the fastest time in the Superpole session for Belgian Audi Club Team WRT and would start in pole position for the Qualifying Race.

Pos.	No.	Driver 1	Team	Qualifying 1	Qualifying 2	Superpole	Grid
		Driver 2
1	12	Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	1:35.718	1:27.107	1:26.091	1
		René Rast
2	9	Sébastien Loeb	Sébastien Loeb Racing	1:29.359	1:26.840	1:26.210	2
		Álvaro Parente
3	13	Edward Sandström	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	1:30.780	1:27.000	1:26.528	3
		Frank Stippler
4	11	Stéphane Ortelli	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	1:30.530	1:26.670	1:26.779	4
		Laurens Vanthoor
5	14	César Campaniço	Team Novadriver	1:30.795	1:27.174	1:26.862	15
		Carlos Vieira
6	0	Cacá Bueno	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	1:30.247	1:27.601	1:27.110	5
		Allam Khodair
7	35	Alex Buncombe	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	1:31.272	1:27.145	1:27.436	6
		Lucas Ordóñez
8	5	Anthony Kumpen	Phoenix Racing	1:31.138	1:27.774	1:27.474	7
		Enzo Ide
9	10	Mike Parisy	Sébastien Loeb Racing	1:30.290	1:26.804	no time	8
		Andreas Zuber
10	1	Maximilian Buhk	HTP Gravity Charouz	1:29.166	1:27.797	no time	9
		Alon Day
11	21	Sérgio Jimenez	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	1:30.344	1:27.860		10
		Ricardo Zonta
12	28	Karun Chandhok	Seyffarth Motorsport	1:31.815	1:27.920		11
		Jan Seyffarth
13	25	Dominik Baumann	Grasser Racing	1:32.278	1:28.147		12
		Harald Proczyk
14	7	Cláudio Ricci	Rodrive Competições	1:29.976	1:28.334		13
		Matheus Stumpf
15	2	Sergey Afanasyev	HTP Gravity Charouz	1:29.359	1:28.397		14
		Andreas Simonsen
16	32	Wolfgang Reip	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	1:31.794	1:29:050		16
		Mark Shulzhitskiy
17	6	Julien Jousse	BMW Sports Trophy Team India	1:31.391	1:29.145		17
		Armaan Ebrahim
18	31	Fabien Barthez	SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion	1:39.046	1:29.426		18
		Gérard Tonelli
19	16	Daniel Keilwitz	Dörr Motorsport	1:29.990	1:29.463		19
		Niclas Kentenich
20	30	Soheil Ayari	SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion	1:34.513	1:29.656		20
		Jean-Luc Beaubélique
21	8	Raijan Mascarello	Rodrive Competições	1:38.768	1:31.522		21
		Felipe Tozzo
22	3	Petr Charouz	HTP Gravity Charouz	1:41.527	1:39.063		22
		Jan Stoviček
DNS	51	Fabio Onidi	AF Corse	no time	no time		23
		Filip Salaquarda

Race results

Class winners in bold.

Qualifying Race

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired
1	Pro	9	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Sébastien Loeb Álvaro Parente	McLaren	39
2	Pro-Am	12	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof René Rast	Audi	39	+5.323
3	Pro	1	HTP Gravity Charouz	Maximilian Buhk Alon Day	Mercedes-Benz	39	+5.511
4	Pro	5	Phoenix Racing	Anthony Kumpen Enzo Ide	Audi	39	+25.257
5	Pro-Am	14	Team Novadriver	César Campaniço Carlos Vieira	Audi	39	+25.928
6	Pro	28	Seyffarth Motorsport	Karun Chandhok Jan Seyffarth	Mercedes-Benz	39	+41.088
7	Pro	0	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	Cacá Bueno Allam Khodair	BMW	39	+47.646
8	Pro	21	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	Sérgio Jimenez Ricardo Zonta	BMW	39	+49.278
9	Pro	7	Rodrive Competições	Cláudio Ricci Matheus Stumpf	Ford	39	+58.852
10	Pro	10	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Mike Parisy Andreas Zuber	McLaren	39	+59.938
11	Pro-Am	6	BMW Sport Trophy Team India	Julien Jousse Armaan Ebrahim	BMW	39	+1:04.496
12	Pro-Am	25	Grasser Racing	Dominik Baumann Harald Proczyk	Lamborghini	39	+1:07.981
13	Pro-Am	2	HTP Gravity Charouz	Sergey Afanasyev Andreas Simonsen	Mercedes-Benz	39	+1:09.067
14	Pro-Am	32	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	Wolfgang Reip Mark Shulzhitskiy	Nissan	39	+1:19.144
15	Gent.	31	SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion	Fabien Barthez Gérard Tonelli	Ferrari	38	+1 Lap
16	Pro	11	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Stéphane Ortelli Laurens Vanthoor	Audi	38	+1 Lap
17	Gent.	8	Rodrive Competições	Raijan Mascarello Felipe Tozzo	Ford	37	+2 Laps
18	Gent.	3	HTP Gravity Charouz	Petr Charouz Jan Stoviček	Mercedes-Benz	37	+2 Laps
19	Pro-Am	35	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	Alex Buncombe Lucas Ordóñez	Nissan	36	Mechanical
DNF	Pro	16	Dörr Motorsport	Daniel Keilwitz Niclas Kentenich	McLaren	18	Mechanical
DNF	Pro	13	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Edward Sandström Frank Stippler	Audi	17	Electrical
DNF	Pro-Am	30	SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion	Soheil Ayari Jean-Luc Beaubélique	Ferrari	1	Mechanical
DNS	Pro-Am	51	AF Corse	Fabio Onidi Filip Salaquarda	Ferrari	–	Collision Damage

Championship Race

Pos	Class	No.	Team	Drivers	Manufacturer	Laps	Time/Retired
1	Pro	13	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Edward Sandström Frank Stippler	Audi	35
2	Pro	11	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Stéphane Ortelli Laurens Vanthoor	Audi	35	+8.041
3	Pro	1	HTP Gravity Charouz	Maximilian Buhk Alon Day	Mercedes-Benz	35	+8.950
4	Pro	5	Phoenix Racing	Anthony Kumpen Enzo Ide	Audi	35	+10.085
5	Pro-Am	14	Team Novadriver	César Campaniço Carlos Vieira	Audi	35	+15.248
6	Pro-Am	12	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof René Rast	Audi	35	+18.050
7	Pro-Am	35	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	Alex Buncombe Lucas Ordóñez	Nissan	35	+18.637
8	Pro-Am	25	Grasser Racing	Dominik Baumann Harald Proczyk	Lamborghini	35	+31.438
9	Pro	0	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	Cacá Bueno Allam Khodair	BMW	35	+34.599
10	Pro	28	Seyffarth Motorsport	Karun Chandhok Jan Seyffarth	Mercedes-Benz	35	+35.056
11	Pro	10	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Mike Parisy Andreas Zuber	McLaren	35	+36.407
12	Pro	9	Sébastien Loeb Racing	Sébastien Loeb Álvaro Parente	McLaren	35	+41.035
13	Pro	21	BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil	Sérgio Jimenez Ricardo Zonta	BMW	35	+53.581
14	Pro-Am	32	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	Wolfgang Reip Mark Shulzhitskiy	Nissan	35	+1:08.461
15	Pro-Am	7	Rodrive Competições	Cláudio Ricci Matheus Stumpf	Ford	35	+1:15.160
16	Pro-Am	2	HTP Gravity Charouz	Sergey Afanasyev Andreas Simonsen	Mercedes-Benz	35	+1:23.670
17	Pro	16	Dörr Motorsport	Daniel Keilwitz Niclas Kentenich	McLaren	35	+1:24.393
18	Pro-Am	6	BMW Sports Trophy Team India	Julien Jousse Armaan Ebrahim	BMW	34	+1 Lap
19	Pro-Am	30	SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion	Soheil Ayari Jean-Luc Beaubélique	Ferrari	34	+1 Lap
20	Gent.	31	SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion	Fabien Barthez Gérard Tonelli	Ferrari	34	+1 Lap
21	Gent.	3	HTP Gravity Charouz	Petr Charouz Jan Stoviček	Mercedes-Benz	33	+2 Laps
22	Gent.	8	Rodrive Competições	Raijan Mascarello Felipe Tozzo	Ford	33	+2 Laps
DNS	Pro-Am	51	AF Corse	Fabio Onidi Filip Salaquarda	Ferrari	–	Collision Damage

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