The 2024 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup was the twelfth season of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup following on from the demise of the SRO Motorsports Group's FIA GT1 World Championship (an auto racing series for grand tourer cars), the fourth with the sponsorship of Fanatec.
The season began on 4 May at Brands Hatch, and ended on 13 October at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
The calendar was released on 1 July 2023 at the SRO's annual 24 Hours of Spa press conference, featuring five rounds. [1] Several adjustments were announced, including Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya joining the sprint schedule after being shuffled out of the endurance schedule, and the addition of Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours after a year away. Circuit Ricardo Tormo and Circuit Zandvoort will not return to the sprint schedule, after three and five years in the series respectively.
Round | Circuit | Date | Map |
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1 | Brands Hatch, Kent | 4–5 May | |
2 | Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico | 18 May | |
3 | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | 20–21 July | |
4 | Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours | 24–25 August | |
5 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló | 12–13 October |
Notes:
Round | Circuit | Pole Position | Overall Winners | Gold Winners | Silver Winners | Bronze Winners | Report | |
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1 | R1 | Brands Hatch | No. 14 Emil Frey Racing | No. 32 Team WRT | No. 6 Liqui Moly Team Engstler by OneGroup | No. 10 Boutsen VDS | Did not participate | Report |
Ben Green Konsta Lappalainen | Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts | Luca Engstler Max Hofer | César Gazeau Aurélien Panis | |||||
R2 | No. 48 Winward Racing Team Mann-Filter | No. 48 Winward Racing Team Mann-Filter | No. 25 Saintéloc Racing | No. 71 AF Corse | Report | |||
Lucas Auer Maro Engel | Lucas Auer Maro Engel | Paul Evrard Gilles Magnus | Eliseo Donno Tom Fleming | |||||
2 | R1 | Misano | No. 46 Team WRT | No. 46 Team WRT | No. 25 Saintéloc Racing | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 54 Dinamic GT | Report |
Maxime Martin Valentino Rossi | Maxime Martin Valentino Rossi | Paul Evrard Gilles Magnus | Sam De Haan Calan Williams | Marvin Dienst Philipp Sager | ||||
R2 | No. 32 Team WRT | No. 32 Team WRT | No. 111 CSA Racing | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 93 Sky – Tempesta Racing | Report | ||
Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts | Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts | Simon Gachet Lucas Légeret | Sam De Haan Calan Williams | Eddie Cheever III Jonathan Hui | ||||
3 | R1 | Hockenheim | No. 71 AF Corse | No. 48 Winward Racing Team Mann-Filter | No. 6 Liqui Moly Team Engstler by OneGroup | No. 71 AF Corse | No. 991 Century Motorsport | Report |
Eliseo Donno Tom Fleming | Lucas Auer Maro Engel | Luca Engstler Max Hofer | Eliseo Donno Tom Fleming | Dan Harper Darren Leung | ||||
R2 | No. 6 Liqui Moly Team Engstler by OneGroup | No. 14 Emil Frey Racing | No. 88 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 991 Century Motorsport | Report | ||
Luca Engstler Max Hofer | Ben Green Konsta Lappalainen | Lorenzo Patrese Lorenzo Ferrari | Sam De Haan Calan Williams | Dan Harper Darren Leung | ||||
4 | R1 | Magny-Cours | No. 14 Emil Frey Racing | No. 32 Team WRT | No. 88 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 90 Madpanda Motorsport | No. 78 Barwell Motorsport | Report |
Ben Green Konsta Lappalainen | Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts | Lorenzo Patrese Lorenzo Ferrari | Ezequiel Pérez Companc Tom Kalender | Sandy Mitchell Rob Collard | ||||
R2 | No. 9 Boutsen VDS | No. 48 Winward Racing Team Mann-Filter | No. 88 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 71 AF Corse | No. 97 Rutronik Racing | Report | ||
Jules Gounon Maximilian Götz | Lucas Auer Maro Engel | Lorenzo Patrese Lorenzo Ferrari | Eliseo Donno Tom Fleming | Dennis Marschall Dustin Blattner | ||||
5 | R1 | Barcelona-Catalunya | No. 72 Barwell Motorsport | No. 9 Boutsen VDS | No. 111 CSA Racing | No. 10 Boutsen VDS | No. 188 Garage 59 | Report |
Patrick Kujala Gabriel Rindone | Jules Gounon Maximilian Götz | Simon Gachet Lucas Légeret | César Gazeau Aurélien Panis | Louis Prette Miguel Ramos | ||||
R2 | No. 96 Rutronik Racing | No. 96 Rutronik Racing | No. 88 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 10 Boutsen VDS | No. 97 Rutronik Racing | Report | ||
Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser | Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser | Lorenzo Patrese Lorenzo Ferrari | César Gazeau Aurélien Panis | Dennis Marschall Dustin Blattner |
Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. The pole-sitter also receives one point.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole |
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Points | 16.5 | 12 | 9.5 | 7.5 | 6 | 4.5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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P – Pole |
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | MAG | CAT | Points | |||||
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1 | Luca Engstler Max Hofer | Liqui Moly Team Engstler by OneGroup | 7 | 10 | 21 | 15 | 6P | 13P | 13PF | 19P | 7F | 10 | 119.5 |
2 | Simon Gachet Lucas Légeret | CSA Racing | 9P | 13 | 32PF | 11P | 13 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 28PF | 114 |
3 | Paul Evrard Gilles Magnus | Saintéloc Racing | 13F | 9P | 13 | 13F | 10 | 16F | 14 | 11F | 17 | 13 | 109 |
4 | Lorenzo Ferrari Lorenzo Patrese | Tresor Attempto Racing | 11F | 7 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 9 | 81.5 | ||||
5 | Matisse Lismont | Comtoyou Racing | 23† | 24 | 28 | 31 | 21 | 30 | 27 | DNS | 11P | 20 | 61.5 |
6 | James Jakes | Comtoyou Racing | 23† | 24 | 28 | 31 | 28 | Ret | 32 | 15 | 42 | ||
7 | David Pittard | Comtoyou Racing | 21 | 30 | 27 | DNS | 11P | 20 | 36 | ||||
8 | Charlie Eastwood Salih Yoluç | Racing Team Turkey | 21 | 20F | 22 | 16 | 32 | ||||||
9 | Sebastian Øgaard | Comtoyou Racing | 32 | 15 | 12 | ||||||||
10 | Răzvan Umbrărescu | Comtoyou Racing | 28 | Ret | WD | WD | 4.5 | ||||||
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | MAG | CAT | Points |
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | MAG | CAT | Points | |||||
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1 | Calan Williams | Team WRT | 8P | 15 | 6PF | 10F | 5 | 5F | 22 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 118.5 |
2 | César Gazeau Aurélien Panis | Boutsen VDS | 6 | 12 | 30 | 32 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 12F | 5PF | 11 | 113.5 |
3 | Sam De Haan | Team WRT | 8P | 15 | 6PF | 10F | 5 | 5F | 22 | 14 | 100.5 | ||
4 | Eliseo Donno Tom Fleming | AF Corse | 10 | 11PF | WD | WD | 4PF | 21P | 17F | 8 | 14 | 19 | 89 |
5 | Sean Hudspeth Jef Machiels | AF Corse | 12 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 28 | 20 | 20F | 52 |
6 | Ivan Klymenko | Saintéloc Racing | 16 | 22 | 31 | 14P | 14 | 28 | 16 | RetP | 12 | 17 | 69 |
7 | Ezequiel Pérez Companc | Madpanda Motorsport | 8P | 18 | 44.5 | ||||||||
Saintéloc Racing | 12 | 17 | |||||||||||
8 | Reece Barr | Winward Racing | 18 | 19 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 26 | Ret | WD | 36.5 | ||
8 | Magnus Gustavsen | Winward Racing | 18 | 19 | 24 | 22 | 22 | 26 | 36.5 | ||||
9 | Dante Rappange | Comtoyou Racing | 20F | 21 | 27 | 19 | 29 | 29 | 25 | DNS | Ret | 18 | 36 |
10 | Marcus Påverud | Eurodent GSM Team | 22 | 23 | 28.5 | ||||||||
Saintéloc Racing | 14 | 28 | 16 | RetP | |||||||||
11 | Lorens Lecertua | Comtoyou Racing | 27 | 19 | 29 | 29 | 25 | DNS | Ret | 18 | 28.5 | ||
12 | Tom Kalender | Madpanda Motorsport | 8P | 18 | 25 | ||||||||
13 | Karol Basz Simon Reicher | Eastalent Racing | 13 | 15 | 20 | ||||||||
14 | Sean Gelael | Team WRT | 15 | 14 | 18 | ||||||||
15 | Gilles Stadsbader | Saintéloc Racing | 31 | 14P | 16 | ||||||||
Winward Racing | Ret | WD | |||||||||||
16 | Marco Butti Pietro Delli Guanti | Eurodent GSM Team | 25 | 29 | 12 | ||||||||
17 | Hugo Cook | Saintéloc Racing | 16 | 22 | 9 | ||||||||
18 | Charles Clark | Comtoyou Racing | 20F | 21 | 7.5 | ||||||||
– | James Kell | Eurodent GSM Team | WD | WD | 0 | ||||||||
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | MAG | CAT | Points |
Pos. | Drivers | Team | MIS | HOC | MAG | CAT | Points | ||||
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1 | Dan Harper Darren Leung | Century Motorsport | 17 | 20 | 15 | 11F | 21P | 26F | 21 | 22 | 87.5 |
2 | Rob Collard Sandy Mitchell | Barwell Motorsport | 19 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 18 | 25 | 22F | 21 | 77 |
3 | Dustin Blattner Dennis Marschall | Rutronik Racing | DNS | 23 | 27F | 19 | 20F | 17 | 23 | 16PF | 69 |
4 | Eddie Cheever III Jonathan Hui | Sky – Tempesta Racing | 20 | 17P | 20 | 17 | 28 | 22 | 26 | 23 | 62.5 |
5 | Andrey Mukovoz Dylan Pereira | Tresor Attempto Racing | 16 | 27 | 24 | 18 | 26 | 23 | Ret | 25 | 44 |
6 | Dmitry Gvazava Ugo de Wilde | Imperiale Racing | 15 | 21 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 27 | Ret | 27 | 42.5 |
7 | Louis Prette | Garage 59 | 23 | 25 | RetP | 27P | 30† | 20P | 18 | Ret | 42 |
8 | Miguel Ramos | Garage 59 | RetP | 27P | 30† | 20P | 18 | Ret | 34.5 | ||
9 | Patrick Kujala Gabriel Rindone | Barwell Motorsport | 26 | 28 | 25 | 23 | 29 | 24 | 22P | Ret | 27.5 |
10 | Stéphane Denoual Steven Palette | Schumacher CLRT | 29 | Ret | 26 | 24 | 31† | 21 | 25 | 26 | 26.5 |
11 | Marvin Dienst Philipp Sager | Dinamic GT | 14PF | 30F | 18.5 | ||||||
12 | James Cottingham | Garage 59 | 23 | 25 | 7.5 | ||||||
Pos. | Drivers | Team | MIS | HOC | MAG | CAT | Points |
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