After a long winter of testing and changes, the 2008 season can finally get

underway this weekend!

The weekend of the 19th and 20th of April will kick off the first round of the twelfth season of the FIA GT Championship.

Silverstone provides familiar surroundings for the first event of the season, and with its long straights and combination of fast and slow corners, the track is popular with most of the teams and drivers.

The prestige and long history of the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy gives an added incentive to this first race of the season, with the prospect of adding names to the long list of past recipients, including many great names from the past 100 years. The Trophy will be escorted to Silverstone by the London to Silverstone Tour, with over thirty modern supercars (including Corvette) heading for the track and their laps of honour on Friday lunchtime.

There is plenty of curiosity about this first race. There are few constants between 2007 and 2008, with new cars and new line-ups. Pre-season testing gave a first taste of what is to come, with very close times, but no-one can predict what will happen on Sunday when the 2008 field is let loose for the first time.

The FIA GT Championship race will be shown live on ESPN Star in Asia, on TV Sport 5 in the Czech and Slovak Republics, on Sport+ in France, on DSF in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, on SuperSport in Greece, Sky Italia in Italy, on GO TV in Malta, on Showtime in the Middle East, on Sport 1 in the Netherlands and on Sport TV in Portugal.




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