{"id":480,"date":"2012-01-22T09:24:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2012-01-22T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T09:24:17","slug":"zele-racing-to-race-in-autogp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Zele-Racing to race in AutoGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07Venturini_30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-481\" title=\"07Venturini_30\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07Venturini_30-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07Venturini_30-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07Venturini_30.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zele-Racing\u00a0will take on the challenge to race in AutoGP for the 2012 season and beyond. The decision to join the championship directed by Enzo Coloni was taken recently. AutoGP is utilising the ex A1GP Lola B05\/52 chassis which underwent some significant changes in terms of downforce \/ drag and performance. The 3.4 litre Zytek V8 engine, producing 550 BHP is amongst the best race engine available on the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Afanasiev_Zaugg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-483\" title=\"01Afanasiev_Zaugg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Afanasiev_Zaugg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Afanasiev_Zaugg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/01Afanasiev_Zaugg.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another significant change for the 2012 season is the switch from Michelin to Kumho tires, which means a new challenge for all the teams as data collected over the past years will become obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>AutoGP is supporting the WTCC championship and will be broadcastet live on EuroSport and EuroSport2 all over Europe. Further it will be the first time for AutoGP to jump overseas for the races in Curitiba (Brasil) and Sonoma (USA). Another highlight, round 3 will be held at Marrakech (Marocco) on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Ceccon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-485\" title=\"AutoGP Brno, Czech Republic 18-19 June 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Ceccon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Ceccon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/02Ceccon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Enzo Coloni:<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see the amount of interest that we are receiving for next <\/span>season, and Mr. Zele\u2019s commitment is a further proof of that. We had already spoken about a possible commitment in the previous seasons, and his decision to finally step in now means that he has perceived the steady growth of our championship. I\u2019m happy to welcome him in the Series, with such a wide-range experience on high-powered cars I\u2019m sure that it won\u2019t take long for them to be able to challenge for wins and podiums\u201d.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Michael Zele:<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">\u201cWe had been tempted to enter AutoGP already 2 years ago. Nowadays it <\/span>looks like AutoGP is the only logical stepping stone for ambitious young drivers to gain experience in big single-seaters without spending the horrendous budgets required in other categories. Furthermore, running with the WTCC and having Eurosport coverage is a fantastic media-tool, and the updates introduced to the Lola chassis and Zytek engine made the AutoGP car the best value for money. We are happy to finally have the possibility to work with Enzo Coloni. We know each other for many years and obviousely we have big respect for what he has achieved in the past 30 years in racing. Our aim is to create a winning package with a strong driver line-up. From a technical point of view the Lola chassis is not new to us at all. Our engineering staff with GP2, AutoGP and WSbR experience is top class, so I am confident that we can provide a winning package\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zele-Racing\u00a0will take on the challenge to race in AutoGP for the 2012 season and beyond. The decision to join the championship directed by Enzo Coloni was taken recently. AutoGP is utilising the ex A1GP Lola B05\/52 chassis which underwent some significant changes in terms of downforce \/ drag and performance. The 3.4 litre Zytek V8 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=480\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":481,"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\/480"}],"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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}