The 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship is coming to an end this weekend with its final round rescheduled in the United Kingdom. Its the beautiful circuit of Donington Park, in the East Midlands, that will host this ninth round. For the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT, the objective, after a season with some ups and downs, is to finish in the final top 3 in both the Teams and Drivers standings. At the moment, this is the case in the Teams rankings while the squads best-placed duo is lying fourth in the Drivers hierarchy. This is the #32 pair composed of Laurens Vanthoor and Stphane Ortelli. But, with no hopes for the title left and a clashing round of the French GT Tour, where WRT defends the colours of Audi France, the Monegasque has been diverted to France. His seat will be taken by experienced Northern Irish driver Adam Carroll. Donington will be, of course, the home race for Oliver Jarvis, who shares the #33 car with Frank Stippler, and the duo is determined to finish the season on a high.

Its the last race of the season for the FIA GT1 and also for the championship in its current form, reflects Team Principal Vincent Vosse. It has been a tough season, which started very well with the double win at Nogaro. In-between, there have been a number of ups and downs, and we are coming to the last event with no chances to fight for the titles. Still, the objective is to do as well as we can and finish on a high note. Most of all, we really would like to be on the championships podium in both categories and thats what well go for.

As said, Adam Carroll will join the team at this occasion. Vosse explains: The rescheduling of this last round has brought quite an unusual situation; there is the clash of dates with the French GT Tour and we decided to have Stphane there, as he is cut off from the title battle in the FIA GT1. Unfortunately, there are many GT races this weekend around the world, and there were no Audi drivers available to sub for Ortelli. After having a look around, we have decided to give an opportunity to Adam. Its always interesting to try new drivers, and he impressed me in a Blancpain race earlier this year. Hes also a very experienced driver and knows Donington well, so we decided to invite him to join the team for this final round.. The 29-year old Northern Irish has indeed a rich career under his belt, despite his young age. A British F3 vice-champion and a winner of the A1 GP series, hes also raced successfully in GP2, WSR, Indycar and AutoGP.

His team mate next weekend, Laurens Vanthoor, looks forward to meeting him: I dont know him personally, but I have heard highly of him and talked to him over the phone yesterday. I am sure hell do well. He can teach me Donington, where I have never raced, and I will teach him the R8!.

Donington Park, the fast and technical 4.023-km track that has hosted in the past F.1 and MotoGP Grand-Prix, is new to the WRT Team, who will rely on the knowledge of the track of its British drivers. Oliver Jarvis, clearly, knows the place well and he is eager to be there. Its nice to have an unexpected home race to finish the FIA GT1 season!, he reckons. Donington is one of the great British tracks and Im sure everybody will enjoy it. The Brit and his German team mate, Frank Stippler, who has raced in Donington with classic cars, will be willing to clinch the win that has eluded them a number of times during the season.

The two one-hour races will follow the usual FIA GT1 format, with the first one kicking off at 14:45 (UK time) on Saturday and the second one at 12:45 on Sunday.

GT1 World - Round 9Donington Park, UK29-30 September 2012

Timetable (Local time = CET - 1)

Thursday, 27th September 201212:25-14:45 Free Practice 115:30-16:50 Practice 2

Saturday 29th September 201209:00-09:30 Qualifying14:45-15:45 Race 1 (Qualifying Race)

Sunday, 30th September 201209:55-10:25 Warm-up12:45-13:45 Race 2 (Championship Race)

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi R8 LMS ultra#32 Adam Carroll (GB) Laurens Vanthoor (BE) #33 Frank Stippler (DE)Oliver Jarvis (GB)

Drivers Championship Standings after Race 16 of 18

1. Winkelhock-Basseng       143 points2. Buurman-Bartels        1423. Dsseldorp-Makowiecki       1104. Ortelli-Vanthoor                   1025. Pastorelli-Jaeger                     876. Salaquarda-Vilander         806. Jarvis-Stippler          75

Teams Championship Standings after Race 16 of 18

1. All-Inkl Mnnich Motorsport       230 points2. Vita4One Racing Team         198 3.   Belgian Audi Club Team WRT      1774.   Hexis Racing        156 5.   AF Corse                    107