GT World Challenge Europe

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GT World Challenge Europe
CategoryGrand tourer
Endurance racing
CountryInternational
Inaugural season2014
Tyre suppliersPirelli (2014–)
Drivers' championBelgium Dries Vanthoor
Belgium Charles Weerts
Teams' championBelgium Team WRT
Official websitewww.gt-world-challenge-europe.com
Motorsport current event.svg 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.

History[]

The series is divided into two separate championships, the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup and the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. 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.

Champions[]

Drivers[]

Year Overall Silver Cup Pro-Am Cup Am Cup
2014 Belgium Laurens Vanthoor Not held Not awarded
2015 Netherlands Robin Frijns
2016 Austria Dominik Baumann
Germany Maximilian Buhk 		Poland Michał Broniszewski Germany Claudio Sdanewitsch
2017 Italy Mirko Bortolotti
Germany Christian Engelhart 		Germany Alexander Mattschull South Africa David Perel
2018 Italy Raffaele Marciello Germany Nico Bastian
United Kingdom Jack Manchester 		France Nyls Stievenart
Germany Markus Winkelhock 		Switzerland Adrian Amstutz
Russia Leo Machitski
2019 Italy Andrea Caldarelli
Italy Marco Mapelli 		Germany Nico Bastian Italy Andrea Bertolini
Belgium Louis Machiels 		Not awarded
2020 Russia Timur Boguslavskiy Argentina Ezequiel Pérez Companc United Kingdom Chris Froggatt
Italy Edward Cheever
2021 Belgium Dries Vanthoor
Belgium Charles Weerts 		Switzerland Alex Fontana Portugal Henrique Chaves
Portugal Miguel Ramos

Teams[]

Year Overall Silver Cup Pro-Am Cup Am Cup
2014 Belgium Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Not held Not awarded
2015 Belgium Belgian Audi Club Team WRT
2016 Germany (AMG - Team) HTP Motorsport Switzerland Kessel Racing Italy AF Corse/Kaspersky Motorsport
2017 Austria GRT Grasser Racing Team Germany Rinaldi Racing Switzerland Kessel Racing
2018 France (Mercedes-AMG Team) AKKA ASP / Russia SMP Racing by AKKA ASP Not awarded France Saintéloc Racing United Kingdom Barwell Motorsport
2019 China Orange1 FFF Racing Team France AKKA ASP Team Italy AF Corse Not awarded
2020 Belgium Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Argentina Madpanda Motorsport United Kingdom Sky - Tempesta Racing
2021 Belgium Team WRT Switzerland Emil Frey Racing United Kingdom Barwell Motorsport

See also[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ "About Blancpain GT Series". Blancpain GT Series. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

External links[]

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