GT World Challenge Europe

Sports car racing series, begun in 2014

GT World Challenge Europe

Category| Grand tourer
Endurance racing
Country| International
Inaugural season| 2014
Tyre suppliers| Pirelli (2014–present)
Drivers' champion|  Lucas Auer
Maro Engel
Teams' champion|  Team WRT
Official website| 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

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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

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* Bold denotes a circuit will be used in the 2025 season.

Number  | Circuits  | Rounds  | Endurance Rounds and Years  | Sprint Rounds and Years

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1  |  Circuit Paul Ricard | 11  | 11 (2014–present)  | 0
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 11  | 11 (2014–present)  | 0
Nürburgring | 11[a] | 8 (2014–2016, 2019–2021, 2023–present)  | 3 (2016–2018)
4  |  Brands Hatch | 10  | 0  | 10 (2014–2019, 2021–present)
Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli | 10  | 0  | 10 (2015–present)
6  |  Monza Circuit | 9  | 9 (2014–2019, 2021, 2023–present)  | 0
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya | 9  | 6 (2017–2019, 2021–2023, 2025)  | 3 (2016, 2020, 2024)
8  |  Circuit Zandvoort | 7  | 0  | 7 (2014–2015, 2019–2023, 2025)
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–present)
Circuit Ricardo Tormo | 3  | 0  | 3 (2021–2023, 2025)
Hockenheimring | 3  | 1 (2022)  | 2 (2023–2024)
15  |  Circuit Paul Armagnac | 2  | 0  | 2 (2014–2015)
Algarve International Circuit | 2  | 0  | 2 (2014–2015)
Imola Circuit | 2  | 2 (2020, 2022)  | 0
18  |  Automotodróm Slovakia Ring | 1  | 0  | 1 (2014)
Baku World Challenge | 1  | 0  | 1 (2014)
Moscow Raceway | 1  | 0  | 1 (2015)
Jeddah Corniche Circuit | 1  | 1 (2024)  | 0

## Champions

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### Drivers

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Year  | Overall  | Silver Cup  | Pro-Am Cup  | Am Cup  | Gold Cup  | Bronze Cup

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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
2024 |  Lucas Auer
Maro Engel |  César Gazeau
Aurélien Panis | —  |  Paul Evrard
Gilles Magnus |  Eddie Cheever III
Jonathan Hui

### Teams

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Year  | Overall  | Silver Cup  | Pro-Am Cup  | Am Cup  | Gold Cup  | Bronze Cup

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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
2024 |  Team WRT |  Boutsen VDS | —  | —  |  Saintéloc Racing |  Rutronik Racing

## See also

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* GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
* GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup

## Notes

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

## References

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

## External links

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* Official website

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