{"id":1528,"date":"2015-11-24T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2015-11-24T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T16:16:44","slug":"zele-racing-stays-in-formula-and-sports-car-racing-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Zele Racing stays in Formula and sports car racing in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/00silva_64_1643.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1461 alignleft\" alt=\"00silva_64_1643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/00silva_64_1643-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/00silva_64_1643-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/00silva_64_1643-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Austrian racing team plans to continue running in the Renault Sport Trophy as well as in the AutoGP Series next year<!--more--><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Although the parking lot in front of Zele Racing\u2019s workshop is covered in snow, preparations for the 2016 racing season are in full gear at the Austrian outfit. The Alpine nation\u2019s second highest ranking racing team wants to keep on running two programmes next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur debut in sports car racing was a lot of fun, even though we had our teething problems. But we want to be part of the Renault Sport Trophy in 2016 again\u201d, team boss Michael Zele confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Zele Racing also wants to defend its AutoGP titles, as they ranked top in both the driver and team standings at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2016, the AutoGP Series will only run on Italian circuits to make it cheaper for teams and drivers to participate. However, that doesn\u2019t mean a step back, because Italy disposes of all sorts of fast and difficult tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9439971_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1523 alignleft\" alt=\"9439971_web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9439971_web-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9439971_web-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9439971_web.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Who will be behind the wheel of Zele\u2019s cars is yet to be determined. The team is in talks with former F1 aces Christian Klien and Antonio Pizzonia, but also with a couple of talented youngsters like Colombian Andres Mendez, Swiss Christoph von Gr\u00fcnigen, Angolan Luis Sa Silva or South African Roman de Beer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have two Gentleman Driver slots for the Renault Sport Trophy. It is certainly an absolute highlight for any amateur to share a cockpit with an ex-F1 star for a season\u201c, Zele added.<\/p>\n<p>The racing calendars for both series have just been announced and Zele Racing\u2019s season climax \u201cis definitely our home event in Spielberg in the Renault Sport Trophy next July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>AutoGP Calendar 2016<\/b><\/p>\n<p>8-10 April, Misano<\/p>\n<p>22-24 April, Monza<\/p>\n<p>27-29 May, Imola<\/p>\n<p>1-3 July, Magione<\/p>\n<p>9-11 September, Vallelunga<\/p>\n<p>14-16 October, Mugello<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Renault Sport Trophy 2016<\/b><\/p>\n<p>15-17 April, Alcaniz<\/p>\n<p>13-15 May, Imola<\/p>\n<p>15-17 July, Spielberg<\/p>\n<p>26-28 August, Paul Ricard<\/p>\n<p>23-25 September, Spa<\/p>\n<p>21-23 October, Estoril<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian racing team plans to continue running in the Renault Sport Trophy as well as in the AutoGP Series next year<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1528\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}