GT World Challenge Europe

GT World Challenge Europe

Category	Grand tourer Endurance racing
Country	International
Inaugural season	2014
Tyre suppliers	Pirelli (2014–present)
Drivers' champion	Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello
Teams' champion	AKKodis ASP Team
Official website	www.gt-world-challenge-europe.com
Current season

GT World Challenge Europe (known as the Blancpain GT Series between 2014 and 2019) is a sports car racing series organised by SRO Motorsports Group. It features grand tourer racing cars modified from production road cars complying with the FIA's GT3 regulations.

The series is divided into two separate championships, the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup and the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, with five weekends each for 2022. Each race meeting focuses on Sprint Cup OR Endurance Cup exclusively.

History

Although the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup (then the Blancpain Endurance Series) has been organised since 2011, the inaugural season of the Blancpain GT Series was 2014, because in that year the FIA GT Series became the Blancpain Sprint Series, which is now the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup. The series was primarily sponsored by Swiss watchmaker Blancpain.

After developing their partnership, Blancpain and the SRO have decided that 2016 will see both the Sprint and Endurance Series further integrated into the Blancpain GT Series, putting the emphasis on the prestigious overall drivers' and manufacturers' titles, and causing the Sprint Series name to change from Blancpain Sprint Series to Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup and the Endurance Series name to change from Blancpain Endurance Series to Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup.^[1]

In 2019, SRO Group announced that their sponsorship agreement with Blancpain had come to an end, this resulted in the Blancpain GT Series being renamed the GT World Challenge Europe with the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe being renamed the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and Sprint Cup respectively.

Circuits

• Bold denotes a circuit will be used in the 2023 season.
• Italic denotes a future circuit will be used in the 2024 season.

Number	Circuits	Rounds	Endurance Rounds and Years	Sprint Rounds and Years
1	Circuit Paul Ricard	10	10 (2014–present)	0
	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	10	10 (2014–present)	0
	Nürburgring	10[a]	7 (2014–2016, 2019–2021, 2023–present)	3 (2016–2018)
4	Brands Hatch	9	0	9 (2014–2019, 2021–present)
	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli	9	0	9 (2015–present)
6	Monza Circuit	8	8 (2014–2019, 2021, 2023–present)	0
	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	8	6 (2017–2019, 2021–2023)	2 (2016, 2020, 2024)
8	Circuit Zandvoort	7	0	7 (2014–2015, 2019–2023)
9	Silverstone Circuit	6	6 (2014–2019)	0
10	Circuit Zolder	4	0	4 (2014–2015, 2017–2018)
	Hungaroring	4	0	4 (2016–2019)
12	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	3	0	3 (2020–2022, 2024)
	Circuit Ricardo Tormo	3	0	3 (2021–2023)
14	Circuit Paul Armagnac	2	0	2 (2014–2015)
	Algarve International Circuit	2	0	2 (2014–2015)
	Imola Circuit	2	2 (2020, 2022)	0
	Hockenheimring	2	1 (2022)	1 (2023–present)
18	Automotodróm Slovakia Ring	1	0	1 (2014)
	Baku World Challenge	1	0	1 (2014)
	Moscow Raceway	1	0	1 (2015)
21	Jeddah Corniche Circuit	0	0 (2024)	0

Champions

Drivers

Year	Overall	Silver Cup	Pro-Am Cup	Am Cup	Gold Cup	Bronze Cup
2014	Laurens Vanthoor	—	—	—	—	—
2015	Robin Frijns
2016	Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk		Michał Broniszewski	Claudio Sdanewitsch
2017	Mirko Bortolotti Christian Engelhart		Alexander Mattschull	David Perel
2018	Raffaele Marciello	Nico Bastian Jack Manchester	Nyls Stievenart Markus Winkelhock	Adrian Amstutz Leo Machitski
2019	Andrea Caldarelli Marco Mapelli	Nico Bastian	Andrea Bertolini Louis Machiels	—
2020	Timur Boguslavskiy	Ezequiel Pérez Companc	Chris Froggatt Edward Cheever
2021	Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts	Alex Fontana	Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos
2022	Raffaele Marciello	Benjamin Goethe Thomas Neubauer	Miguel Ramos
2023	Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello	Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese	Alex Fontana Ivan Jacoma Nicolas Leutwiler		Niklas Krütten Calan Williams	Alex Malykhin

Teams

Year	Overall	Silver Cup	Pro-Am Cup	Am Cup	Gold Cup	Bronze Cup
2014	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	—	—	—	—	—
2015	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT
2016	(AMG - Team) HTP Motorsport		Kessel Racing	AF Corse/Kaspersky Motorsport
2017	GRT Grasser Racing Team		Rinaldi Racing	Kessel Racing
2018	(Mercedes-AMG Team) AKKA ASP / SMP Racing by AKKA ASP		Saintéloc Racing	Barwell Motorsport
2019	Orange1 FFF Racing Team	AKKA ASP Team	AF Corse	—
2020	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Madpanda Motorsport	Sky - Tempesta Racing
2021	Team WRT	Emil Frey Racing	Barwell Motorsport
2022	AKKodis ASP Team	Team WRT	AF Corse
2023	AKKodis ASP Team	Tresor Attempto Racing	Car Collection Motorsport		Boutsen VDS	Pure Rxcing

See also

• GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
• GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup

Notes

1. Nürburgring hosted both endurance and sprint rounds in 2016.

References

1. "About Blancpain GT Series". Blancpain GT Series. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

External links

• Official website