The 2017 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the second season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season featured three rounds, starting with the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 5 February and concluding with the Mazda Raceway California 8 Hours on 15 October, after the SRO Motorsports Group chose to cancel the Sepang 12 Hours scheduled for 10 December, due to a lack of entries. [1] Laurens Vanthoor was the defending drivers' champion and Audi was the defending manufacturers' champion.
In contrast to the inaugural season, manufacturers no longer needed to enter their cars separately. In 2017, as long as they held an international licence, all cars and drivers entered in the overall GT3 class, together with the manufacturers in the overall GT4 class were automatically eligible to score points towards the titles.
| Round | Event | Circuit | Date | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour |  Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia | 5 February | Report |
| 2 | Total 24 Hours of Spa |  Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium | 29–30 July | Report |
| 3 | Mazda Raceway California 8 Hours |  Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, United States | 15 October | Report |
| Source: [2] | ||||
| Manufacturer | Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aston Martin | TRG | Vantage GT4 | 07 | Michael Davis | 3 |
| Derek DeBoer | |||||
| Greg Milzcik | |||||
| 3 | Craig Lyons | 3 | |||
| Thomas Merrill | |||||
| Kris Wilson | |||||
 R-Motorsport | 62 | Andreas Baenziger | 1 | ||
| Peter Leemhuis | |||||
 Jan Struve | |||||
| Automatic Racing | 99 | Charles Espenlaub | 3 | ||
| Eric Lux | |||||
| Charlie Putman | |||||
| Ginetta | Ian Lacy Racing | G55 GT4 | 12 | Frank Gannett | 3 |
| Ian Lacy | |||||
| Drew Staveley | |||||
| RA Motorsports - Ginetta | 55 | Tim Berryman | 1 | ||
| Peter Paddon | |||||
 Mike Simpson | |||||
| 69 |  Zen Low | 1 | |||
| Jake Parsons | |||||
| Aidan Read | |||||
 Shinyo Sano | |||||
| KTM | M Motorsport | X-Bow GT4 | 48 |  Tomáš Enge | 1 |
 Reinhard Kofler | |||||
| Justin McMillan | |||||
| Glen Wood | |||||
| Porsche | HKG Racing / GMG Racing | Cayman GT4 Clubsport | 8 | Andy Lee | 3 |
| Jon Miller | |||||
| Carter Yeung | |||||
| Rearden Racing | Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR | 26 | Jeff Kearl | 3 | |
| Sean McAlister | |||||
| Jeff Westphal | |||||
| 117 | Daren Jorgensen | 3 | |||
 Vesko Kozarov | |||||
| Hutton McKenna | |||||
| Brookspeed | Cayman GT4 Clubsport | 40 | David Drinkwater | 1 | |
| Aaron Mason | |||||
| Adrian Watt | |||||
| 41 | Coleby Cowham | 1 | |||
| Ashley Jarvis | |||||
| Lindsay Kearns | |||||
| PROsport Porsche |  PROsport Performance | Cayman PRO4 GT4 | 18 | Charles Espenlaub | 1 |
| Joe Foster | |||||
| Andy Pilgrim | |||||
| Charles Putman | |||||
| 19 |  Max Braams | 1 | |||
| Harri Jones | |||||
| Nicolaj Møller Madsen | |||||
| Jörg Viebahn | |||||
| Sources: [3] [5] | |||||
| Rnd. | Circuit | Pole Position | GT3 Winners | GT4 Winners | Winning Manufacturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT3 | GT4 | |||||
| 1 | Bathurst | No. 88 Maranello Motorsport | No. 88 Maranello Motorsport | No. 19 PROsport Performance | Ferrari | PROsport Porsche |
Craig Lowndes  Toni Vilander Jamie Whincup | Craig Lowndes Toni Vilander Jamie Whincup | Max Braams Harrison Jones Nicolaj Møller Madsen Jörg Viebahn | ||||
| 2 | Spa-Francorchamps |  No. 55 Kaspersky Motorsport |  No. 25 Audi Sport Team Saintéloc | did not participate | Audi | did not participate |
| James Calado Marco Cioci Giancarlo Fisichella | Jules Gounon Christopher Haase Markus Winkelhock | |||||
| 3 | Laguna Seca | No. 29 Audi Sport Team Land | No. 44 Audi Sport Team Magnus | No. 26 Rearden Racing | Audi | Porsche |
| Christopher Haase Christopher Mies Connor De Phillippi | Pierre Kaffer  Kelvin van der Linde Markus Winkelhock | Jeff Kearl Sean McAlister Jeff Westphal | ||||
Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points, with the exception of Bathurst where a car simply had to cross the finish line to be classified. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. A manufacturer only received points for its two highest placed cars in each round.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
The results indicate the classification relative to other drivers in the series, not the classification in the race. For unknown reasons some drivers were ineligible to score points. It is unknown which drivers that did not finish in a points scoring position were ineligible to score points.
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If more than two cars of a specific manufacturer finished in the top 10, these cars would be considered invisible and their points would be redistributed to the next eligible car.
| Pos. | Manufacturer | Car | BAT | SPA | LGA | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Audi | R8 LMS R8 LMS ultra | 7 | 1 | 1 | 87 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Porsche | 911 GT3 R 997 GT3 R | 2 | 4 | 5 | 48 |
| Ret | 29 | 7 | ||||
| 3 | Bentley | Continental GT3 | 3 | 2 | 37 | |
| 12 | 14 | |||||
| 4 | McLaren | 650S GT3 | 5 | 32 | 3 | 27 |
| 15 | Ret | |||||
| 5 | Ferrari | 488 GT3 | 1 | 17 | 25 | |
| 19 | ||||||
| 6 | Mercedes-Benz | AMG GT3 | Ret | 3 | 23 | |
| Ret | 7 | |||||
| 7 | Acura | NSX GT3 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Ret | ||||||
| 8 | Reiter Engineering | Gallardo R-EX | 6 | 10 | ||
| Ret | ||||||
| 8 | Nissan | GT-R Nismo GT3 | 8 | 13 | 10 | |
| 20 | 30 | |||||
| 9 | BMW | M6 GT3 | 14 | 10 | 6 | |
| Ret | 20 | |||||
| 10 | Lamborghini | Huracán GT3 | 10 | 16 | 4 | |
| 18 | ||||||
| 11 | Aston Martin | Vantage GT3 | Ret | 15 | 1 | |
| 12 | Jaguar | XK Emil Frey G3 | Ret | |||
| Ret | ||||||
| Pos. | Manufacturer | Car | BAT | SPA | LGA | Points |
| Pos. | Manufacturer | Car | BAT | LGA | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porsche | Cayman GT4 Clubsport Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR | 17 | 9 | 61 |
| 181 | 10 | ||||
| 2 | PROsport Porsche | Cayman PRO4 GT4 | 16 | 25 | |
| DNS | |||||
| 3 | Ginetta | G55 GT4 | 19 | Ret | 15 |
| Ret | |||||
| 4 | Aston Martin | Vantage GT4 | WD | 11 | 15 |
| 131 | |||||
| KTM | X-Bow GT4 | Ret | |||
| Pos. | Manufacturer | Car | BAT | LGA | Points |
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