2013 FIA GT Nogaro round

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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.

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!rowspan=2| {{Tooltip|Pos.|Position}}

!rowspan=2| {{Tooltip|No.|Car number}}

! Driver 1

!rowspan=2| Team

!rowspan=2| Qualifying 1

!rowspan=2| Qualifying 2

!rowspan=2| Superpole

!rowspan=2| {{Tooltip|Grid|Final grid position}}

Driver 2
rowspan=2| 1

|rowspan=2| 12

| {{flagicon|AUT}} Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:35.718

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.107

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.091

!rowspan=2| 1

{{flagicon|DEU}} René Rast
rowspan=2| 2

|rowspan=2| 9

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb Racing

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.359

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.840

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.210

!rowspan=2| 2

{{flagicon|PRT}} Álvaro Parente
rowspan=2| 3

|rowspan=2| 13

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Edward Sandström

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:30.780

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.000

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.528

!rowspan=2| 3

{{flagicon|DEU}} Frank Stippler
rowspan=2| 4

|rowspan=2| 11

| {{flagicon|MCO}} Stéphane Ortelli

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:30.530

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.670

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.779

!rowspan=2| 4

{{flagicon|BEL}} Laurens Vanthoor
rowspan=2| 5

|rowspan=2| 14

| {{flagicon|PRT}} César Campaniço

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|PRT}} Team Novadriver

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:30.795

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.174

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.862

!rowspan=2| 15

{{flagicon|PRT}} Carlos Vieira
rowspan=2| 6

|rowspan=2| 0

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Cacá Bueno

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|BRA}} BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:30.247

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.601

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.110

!rowspan=2| 5

{{flagicon|BRA}} Allam Khodair
rowspan=2| 7

|rowspan=2| 35

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Buncombe

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|GBR}} Nissan GT Academy Team RJN

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:31.272

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.145

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.436

!rowspan=2| 6

{{flagicon|ESP}} Lucas Ordóñez
rowspan=2| 8

|rowspan=2| 5

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Anthony Kumpen

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} Phoenix Racing

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:31.138

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.774

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.474

!rowspan=2| 7

{{flagicon|BEL}} Enzo Ide
rowspan=2| 9

|rowspan=2| 10

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Mike Parisy

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb Racing

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:30.290

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:26.804

| rowspan=2 align="center" | no time

!rowspan=2| 8

{{flagicon|AUT}} Andreas Zuber
rowspan=2| 10

|rowspan=2| 1

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Maximilian Buhk

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.166

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.797

| rowspan=2 align="center" | no time

!rowspan=2| 9

{{flagicon|ISR}} Alon Day
rowspan=2| 11

|rowspan=2| 21

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Sérgio Jimenez

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|BRA}} BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:30.344

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.860

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 10

{{flagicon|BRA}} Ricardo Zonta
rowspan=2| 12

|rowspan=2| 28

| {{flagicon|IND}} Karun Chandhok

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} Seyffarth Motorsport

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:31.815

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:27.920

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 11

{{flagicon|DEU}} Jan Seyffarth
rowspan=2| 13

|rowspan=2| 25

| {{flagicon|AUT}} Dominik Baumann

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} Grasser Racing

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:32.278

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:28.147

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 12

{{flagicon|AUT}} Harald Proczyk
rowspan=2| 14

|rowspan=2| 7

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Cláudio Ricci

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|PRT}} Rodrive Competições

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.976

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:28.334

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 13

{{flagicon|BRA}} Matheus Stumpf
rowspan=2| 15

|rowspan=2| 2

| {{flagicon|RUS}} Sergey Afanasyev

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.359

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:28.397

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 14

{{flagicon|SWE}} Andreas Simonsen
rowspan=2| 16

|rowspan=2| 32

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Wolfgang Reip

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|GBR}} Nissan GT Academy Team RJN

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:31.794

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29:050

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 16

{{flagicon|RUS}} Mark Shulzhitskiy
rowspan=2| 17

|rowspan=2| 6

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Julien Jousse

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|ESP}} BMW Sports Trophy Team India

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:31.391

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.145

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 17

{{flagicon|IND}} Armaan Ebrahim
rowspan=2| 18

|rowspan=2| 31

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Fabien Barthez

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|FRA}} SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:39.046

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.426

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 18

{{flagicon|FRA}} Gérard Tonelli
rowspan=2| 19

|rowspan=2| 16

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Daniel Keilwitz

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} Dörr Motorsport

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.990

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.463

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 19

{{flagicon|DEU}} Niclas Kentenich
rowspan=2| 20

|rowspan=2| 30

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Soheil Ayari

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|FRA}} SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:34.513

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:29.656

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 20

{{flagicon|FRA}} Jean-Luc Beaubélique
rowspan=2| 21

|rowspan=2| 8

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Raijan Mascarello

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|PRT}} Rodrive Competições

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:38.768

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:31.522

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 21

{{flagicon|BRA}} Felipe Tozzo
rowspan=2| 22

|rowspan=2| 3

| {{flagicon|CZE}} Petr Charouz

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:41.527

| rowspan=2 align="center" | 1:39.063

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 22

{{flagicon|CZE}} Jan Stoviček
rowspan=2| DNS

|rowspan=2| 51

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Fabio Onidi

|rowspan=2| {{flagicon|ITA}} AF Corse

| rowspan=2 align="center" | no time

| rowspan=2 align="center" | no time

| rowspan=2 align="center" |

!rowspan=2| 23

{{flagicon|CZE}} Filip Salaquarda

Race results

Class winners in bold.

=Qualifying Race=

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! Pos

! Class

! No.

! Team

! Drivers

! Manufacturer

! Laps

! Time/Retired

style="font-weight:bold"

! 1

| Pro

| 9

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb Racing

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb
{{flagicon|PRT}} Álvaro Parente

| McLaren

| 39

|

style="font-weight:bold"

! 2

| Pro-Am

| 12

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| {{flagicon|AUT}} Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof
{{flagicon|DEU}} René Rast

| Audi

| 39

| +5.323

3

| Pro

| 1

| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Maximilian Buhk
{{flagicon|ISR}} Alon Day

| Mercedes-Benz

| 39

| +5.511

4

| Pro

| 5

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Phoenix Racing

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Anthony Kumpen
{{flagicon|BEL}} Enzo Ide

| Audi

| 39

| +25.257

5

| Pro-Am

| 14

| {{flagicon|PRT}} Team Novadriver

| {{flagicon|PRT}} César Campaniço
{{flagicon|PRT}} Carlos Vieira

| Audi

| 39

| +25.928

6

| Pro

| 28

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Seyffarth Motorsport

| {{flagicon|IND}} Karun Chandhok
{{flagicon|DEU}} Jan Seyffarth

| Mercedes-Benz

| 39

| +41.088

7

| Pro

| 0

| {{flagicon|BRA}} BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Cacá Bueno
{{flagicon|BRA}} Allam Khodair

| BMW

| 39

| +47.646

8

| Pro

| 21

| {{flagicon|BRA}} BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Sérgio Jimenez
{{flagicon|BRA}} Ricardo Zonta

| BMW

| 39

| +49.278

9

| Pro

| 7

| {{flagicon|PRT}} Rodrive Competições

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Cláudio Ricci
{{flagicon|BRA}} Matheus Stumpf

| Ford

| 39

| +58.852

10

| Pro

| 10

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb Racing

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Mike Parisy
{{flagicon|AUT}} Andreas Zuber

| McLaren

| 39

| +59.938

11

| Pro-Am

| 6

| {{flagicon|ESP}} BMW Sport Trophy Team India

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Julien Jousse
{{flagicon|IND}} Armaan Ebrahim

| BMW

| 39

| +1:04.496

12

| Pro-Am

| 25

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Grasser Racing

| {{flagicon|AUT}} Dominik Baumann
{{flagicon|AUT}} Harald Proczyk

| Lamborghini

| 39

| +1:07.981

13

| Pro-Am

| 2

| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| {{flagicon|RUS}} Sergey Afanasyev
{{flagicon|SWE}} Andreas Simonsen

| Mercedes-Benz

| 39

| +1:09.067

14

| Pro-Am

| 32

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Nissan GT Academy Team RJN

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Wolfgang Reip
{{flagicon|RUS}} Mark Shulzhitskiy

| Nissan

| 39

| +1:19.144

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! 15

| Gent.

| 31

| {{flagicon|FRA}} SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Fabien Barthez
{{flagicon|FRA}} Gérard Tonelli

| Ferrari

| 38

| +1 Lap

16

| Pro

| 11

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| {{flagicon|MCO}} Stéphane Ortelli
{{flagicon|BEL}} Laurens Vanthoor

| Audi

| 38

| +1 Lap

17

| Gent.

| 8

| {{flagicon|PRT}} Rodrive Competições

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Raijan Mascarello
{{flagicon|BRA}} Felipe Tozzo

| Ford

| 37

| +2 Laps

18

| Gent.

| 3

| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| {{flagicon|CZE}} Petr Charouz
{{flagicon|CZE}} Jan Stoviček

| Mercedes-Benz

| 37

| +2 Laps

19

| Pro-Am

| 35

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Nissan GT Academy Team RJN

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Buncombe
{{flagicon|ESP}} Lucas Ordóñez

| Nissan

| 36

| Mechanical

DNF

| Pro

| 16

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Dörr Motorsport

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Daniel Keilwitz
{{flagicon|DEU}} Niclas Kentenich

| McLaren

| 18

| Mechanical

DNF

| Pro

| 13

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Edward Sandström
{{flagicon|DEU}} Frank Stippler

| Audi

| 17

| Electrical

DNF

| Pro-Am

| 30

| {{flagicon|FRA}} SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Soheil Ayari
{{flagicon|FRA}} Jean-Luc Beaubélique

| Ferrari

| 1

| Mechanical

DNS

| Pro-Am

| 51

| {{flagicon|ITA}} AF Corse

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Fabio Onidi
{{flagicon|CZE}} Filip Salaquarda

| Ferrari

| –

| Collision Damage

=Championship Race=

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! Pos

! Class

! No.

! Team

! Drivers

! Manufacturer

! Laps

! Time/Retired

style="font-weight:bold"

! 1

| Pro

| 13

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Edward Sandström
{{flagicon|DEU}} Frank Stippler

| Audi

| 35

|

2

| Pro

| 11

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| {{flagicon|MCO}} Stéphane Ortelli
{{flagicon|BEL}} Laurens Vanthoor

| Audi

| 35

| +8.041

3

| Pro

| 1

| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Maximilian Buhk
{{flagicon|ISR}} Alon Day

| Mercedes-Benz

| 35

| +8.950

4

| Pro

| 5

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Phoenix Racing

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Anthony Kumpen
{{flagicon|BEL}} Enzo Ide

| Audi

| 35

| +10.085

style="font-weight:bold"

! 5

| Pro-Am

| 14

| {{flagicon|PRT}} Team Novadriver

| {{flagicon|PRT}} César Campaniço
{{flagicon|PRT}} Carlos Vieira

| Audi

| 35

| +15.248

6

| Pro-Am

| 12

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

| {{flagicon|AUT}} Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof
{{flagicon|DEU}} René Rast

| Audi

| 35

| +18.050

7

| Pro-Am

| 35

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Nissan GT Academy Team RJN

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Buncombe
{{flagicon|ESP}} Lucas Ordóñez

| Nissan

| 35

| +18.637

8

| Pro-Am

| 25

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Grasser Racing

| {{flagicon|AUT}} Dominik Baumann
{{flagicon|AUT}} Harald Proczyk

| Lamborghini

| 35

| +31.438

9

| Pro

| 0

| {{flagicon|BRA}} BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Cacá Bueno
{{flagicon|BRA}} Allam Khodair

| BMW

| 35

| +34.599

10

| Pro

| 28

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Seyffarth Motorsport

| {{flagicon|IND}} Karun Chandhok
{{flagicon|DEU}} Jan Seyffarth

| Mercedes-Benz

| 35

| +35.056

11

| Pro

| 10

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb Racing

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Mike Parisy
{{flagicon|AUT}} Andreas Zuber

| McLaren

| 35

| +36.407

12

| Pro

| 9

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb Racing

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Sébastien Loeb
{{flagicon|PRT}} Álvaro Parente

| McLaren

| 35

| +41.035

13

| Pro

| 21

| {{flagicon|BRA}} BMW Sport Trophy Team Brasil

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Sérgio Jimenez
{{flagicon|BRA}} Ricardo Zonta

| BMW

| 35

| +53.581

14

| Pro-Am

| 32

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Nissan GT Academy Team RJN

| {{flagicon|BEL}} Wolfgang Reip
{{flagicon|RUS}} Mark Shulzhitskiy

| Nissan

| 35

| +1:08.461

15

| Pro-Am

| 7

| {{flagicon|PRT}} Rodrive Competições

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Cláudio Ricci
{{flagicon|BRA}} Matheus Stumpf

| Ford

| 35

| +1:15.160

16

| Pro-Am

| 2

| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| {{flagicon|RUS}} Sergey Afanasyev
{{flagicon|SWE}} Andreas Simonsen

| Mercedes-Benz

| 35

| +1:23.670

17

| Pro

| 16

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Dörr Motorsport

| {{flagicon|DEU}} Daniel Keilwitz
{{flagicon|DEU}} Niclas Kentenich

| McLaren

| 35

| +1:24.393

18

| Pro-Am

| 6

| {{flagicon|ESP}} BMW Sports Trophy Team India

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Julien Jousse
{{flagicon|IND}} Armaan Ebrahim

| BMW

| 34

| +1 Lap

19

| Pro-Am

| 30

| {{flagicon|FRA}} SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Soheil Ayari
{{flagicon|FRA}} Jean-Luc Beaubélique

| Ferrari

| 34

| +1 Lap

style="font-weight:bold"

! 20

| Gent.

| 31

| {{flagicon|FRA}} SOFREV Auto Sport Promotion

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Fabien Barthez
{{flagicon|FRA}} Gérard Tonelli

| Ferrari

| 34

| +1 Lap

21

| Gent.

| 3

| {{flagicon|DEU}} HTP Gravity Charouz

| {{flagicon|CZE}} Petr Charouz
{{flagicon|CZE}} Jan Stoviček

| Mercedes-Benz

| 33

| +2 Laps

22

| Gent.

| 8

| {{flagicon|PRT}} Rodrive Competições

| {{flagicon|BRA}} Raijan Mascarello
{{flagicon|BRA}} Felipe Tozzo

| Ford

| 33

| +2 Laps

DNS

| Pro-Am

| 51

| {{flagicon|ITA}} AF Corse

| {{flagicon|ITA}} Fabio Onidi
{{flagicon|CZE}} Filip Salaquarda

| Ferrari

| –

| Collision Damage

{{Sportscar Race Report

| Year_of_race = 2013

| Sportscar_Series = FIA GT Series

| Previous_race_in_season = None

| Next_race_in_season = Zolder

}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:2013 FIA GT Nogaro Round}}

Nogaro

Nogaro