International GT Open

The International GT Open is a grand tourer-style sports car racing series founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It was a spin-off of the now-defunct Spanish GT Championship, but is now a distinct series featuring FIA GT3-spec cars modified from production road cars.

International GT Open
CategoryGrand tourer sportscars
CountryInternational
Inaugural season2006
Drivers60 (2020)
Teams17 (2020)
Tyre suppliersMichelin[1]
Drivers' champion Henrique Chaves
Miguel Ramos
Teams' champion Teo Martín Motorsport
Official websitewww.gtopen.net/
Current season

Format

The series consists of events in various European countries which feature two races over a weekend. In its first year, the races had an identical format to the Spanish GT Championship, with two 200 km races, the first held on Saturday and the second the following Sunday. Three of the six rounds were joint events for the Open and the Spanish GT Championship.

In 2007, the first race, known as Pro-Am, covers approximately 200 km distance, while the second race is 150 km and known as GT Open. The only exception is the Open GT Barcelona, which is a single 300 km race. In early seasons, a few races have been a part of the World Touring Car Championship support package.

Now the first race of a weekend is 70 minutes long and the second is 60 minutes. The current support series are the Euroformula Open Championship (formerly Spanish F3 Open) and the GT Cup Open Europe with some race weekends also featuring TCR Europe and the Alpine Elf Europa Cup.

Past support series have included the SEAT León Supercopa (2014-2016), and Formula V8 3.5 Series (2016).

Regulations

Each race consists of a field of grand touring-style cars broken into different classes based on power and weight. For 2006, two classes were used, known as GTA and GTB. GTA was equivalent to the GT2 class used in the FIA GT Championship, but it also allowed non-homologated cars provide they obey the FIA GT2 technical regulations. Most of the field was made up of Ferrari F430 GTs and Porsche 911 GT3-RSRs. Non-homologated cars like the Mosler MT900R and the SEAT Cupra GT were also competitive.

The GTB class consisted of cars usually from a manufacturer's one-make cup series, like the Ferrari F430 Challenge, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, and the Marcos Mantis. A GTS class was created to house the FIA GT3 class, consisting mainly of Dodge Viper Competition Coupes and Lamborghini Gallardo GT3s.

Starting in 2015, the International GT Open began using only FIA GT3-spec cars with 2 sub-categories. The Am category is only for drivers given the "Bronze" designation by GT Sport. Pro-Am requires one Bronze driver with no restrictions on the co-driver. All other entries are scored overall with the only driver restriction being a ban on having two Platinum drivers.

Champions

Overall

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2006 Michele Bartyan Playteam SaraFree D 3 3 5 86 Race 11 of 11 4
2007 Joël Camathias
Richard Lietz
Autorlando D 3 3 6 158 Race 15 of 15 4
2008 Michele Maceratesi
Andrea Montermini
Scuderia Playteam SaraFree D 7 5 8 177 Race 16 of 16 8
2009 Joël Camathias
Marcel Fässler
Trottet Racing D 3 6 9 233 Race 16 of 16 13
2010 Álvaro Barba
Pierre Kaffer
AF Corse D 9 4 9 198 Race 16 of 16 5
2011 Soheil Ayari JMB Racing D 0 4 8 199 Race 16 of 16 22
2012 Gianmaria Bruni
Federico Leo
AF Corse D 3 3 7 233 Race 16 of 16 3
2013 Andrea Montermini Scuderia Villorba Corse D 5 6 14 231 Race 14 of 16 54
2014 Roman Mavlanov
Daniel Zampieri
SMP Racing Russian Bears D 4 3 10 212 Race 16 of 16 10
2015 Álvaro Parente
Miguel Ramos
Teo Martín Motorsport M 6 3 11 212 Race 13 of 14 33
2016 Thomas Biagi
Fabrizio Crestani
Orange 1 Team Lazarus M 0 2 9 183 Race 12 of 14 51
2017 Giovanni Venturini Imperiale Racing M 3 3 6 114 Race 14 of 14 8
2018 Mikkel Mac Luzich Racing M 1 4 6 122 Race 14 of 14 11
2019 Giacomo Altoè
Albert Costa
Emil Frey Racing M 4 4 6 128 Race 14 of 14 12
2020 Henrique Chaves
Miguel Ramos
Teo Martín Motorsport M 1 2 6 114 Race 14 of 14 2

GT3 PRO-AM

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2015 Álvaro Parente
Miguel Ramos
Teo Martín Motorsport M 6 3 11 94 Race 12 of 14 20
2016 Thomas Biagi
Fabrizio Crestani
Orange 1 Team Lazarus M 3 1 8 78 Race 12 of 14 26
2017 Shaun Balfe
Rob Bell
Balfe Motorsport M 3 1 8 82 Race 12 of 14 17
2018 Tom Onslow-Cole
Valentin Pierburg
SPS Automotive Performance M 6 6 8 78 Race 14 of 14 0†
2019 Frederik Scandorff Vincenzo Sospiri Racing M 4 8 79 Race 14 of 14 7
2020 Marcelo Hahn Teo Martín Motorsport M 4 2 7 63 Race 14 of 14 1

Title won on number of wins count back.

GT3 AM

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2015 Claudio Sdanewitsch AF Corse M 2 5 12 55 Race 10 of 14 7
2016 António Coimbra
Luís Silva
Sports & You M 3 8 12 55 Race 12 of 14 19
2017 António Coimbra
Luís Silva
Sports & You M 0 4 10 49 Race 12 of 14 9
2018 Giulio Borlenghi
Andrzej Lewandowski
Vincenzo Sospiri Racing M 1 2 5 83 Race 12 of 14 22
2019 Giuseppe Cipriani Antonelli MotorSport M 3 11 45 Race 14 of 14 4
2020 Jens Liebhauser
Florian Sholze
GetSpeed Performance M 5 7 9 67 Race 13 of 14 53

GTA

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2006 Michele Bartyan Playteam SaraFree D 3 3 5 86 Race 11 of 11 4
2007 Michele Maceratesi
Andrea Montermini
Scuderia Playteam SaraFree D 2 3 5 65 Race 15 of 15 3
2008 Michele Maceratesi
Andrea Montermini
Scuderia Playteam SaraFree D 6 5 8 77 Race 16 of 16 9

GTB

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2006 Fabrizio Gini Scuderia Giudici D 0 1 2 no data
2007 Gianni Giudici Scuderia Giudici D 1 1 9 no data

GTS

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2006 Andrea Belicchi
Stefano Zonca
Racing Box D 5 4 8 no data
2007 Riccardo Romagnoli La Torre D 3 3 5 no data
2008 Marco Cioci
Andrea Pellizzato
Twentytwo D 7 6 6 71 Race 14 of 16 20
2009 Michał Broniszewski
Philipp Peter
Kessel Racing D 8 6 12 107 Race 14 of 16 27
2010 Marco Frezza Kessel Racing D 1 5 8 86 Race 16 of 16 2
2011 Lorenzo Bontempelli
Stefano Gattuso
Kessel Racing D 6 7 12 116 Race 15 of 16 13
2012 Michael Dalle Stelle
Daniel Zampieri
Kessel Racing D 5 3 10 88 Race 16 of 16 3
2013 Giorgio Pantano Bhai Tech Racing D 0 3 5 56 Race 16 of 16 0
2014 Giorgio Roda AF Corse D 0 2 7 86 Race 15 of 16 9

Super GT

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2009 Joël Camathias
Marcel Fässler
Trottet Racing D 3 6 9 99 Race 16 of 16 5
2010 Álvaro Barba
Pierre Kaffer
AF Corse D 9 4 9 90 Race 16 of 16 9
2011 Soheil Ayari JMB Racing D 0 4 9 88 Race 16 of 16 9
2012 Gianmaria Bruni
Federico Leo
AF Corse D 3 3 7 85 Race 16 of 16 1
2013 Andrea Montermini Scuderia Villorba Corse D 5 6 14 116 Race 14 of 16 22
2014 Roman Mavlanov
Daniel Zampieri
SMP Racing Russian Bears D 4 3 10 104 Race 16 of 16 5

Gentleman’s Cup

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2013 Alexander Talkanitsa, Sr. AT Racing D 0 6 13 114 Race 14 of 16 22
2014 Claudio Sdanewitsch AF Corse D 0 5 15 128 Race 15 of 16 10

GT Open Cup

Season Drivers Team Tyre Poles Wins Podiums Points Clinched Margin
2015 James Abbott Radical Works M 0 0 0 10 Race 6 of 14 0

Teams

Year Teams' Cup
2007 Scuderia Playteam SaraFree
2008 Scuderia Playteam SaraFree
Super GT GTS
2009 Autorlando Sport Villois Racing
2010 AF Corse Kessel Racing
2011 JMB Racing Kessel Racing
2012 AF Corse Kessel Racing
2013 V8 Racing Bhai Tech Racing
2014 V8 Racing AF Corse
Teams' Championship
2015 AF Corse
2016 BMW Team Teo Martín
2017 Imperiale Racing
2018 Imperiale Racing
2019 Emil Frey Racing
2020 Teo Martín Motorsport

References

  1. "Michelin becomes the new tire supplier of the Euroformula Open". automobilsport.com. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
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