2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge

2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge

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The 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the fifth season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season again features five rounds, starting with the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 2 February and concluding with the Kyalami 9 Hours on 12 December. Dennis Olsen is the defending Drivers' champion and Porsche is the defending Manufacturers' champion.

Calendar

At the annual press conference during the 2019 24 Hours of Spa on 26 July, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2020 calendar. The only change from 2019 was the North American round moving from Laguna Seca Raceway to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, ^[1] primarily because of event permit restrictions at Laguna Seca (which is owned by the local government).^{[ citation needed ]} The Indianapolis event will form a revival of the Speedway's Harvest Auto Racing Classic. The schedule was further changed on 22 May 2020 when the BH Auction SMBC Suzuka 10 Hours on 23 August was canceled because of Japanese entry restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, on 22 June 2020, it was announced as a result of the rescheduled 24 Hours of Spa, the race would be extended to 25 hours. The new date falls on the weekend Europe leaves summertime, so clocks are turned back one hour, so the race will run 25 hours, with the original 24 hours name retained. ^[2] Finally the raced lasted for 24 hours and not for 25 hours.

Round	Race	Circuit	Date	Report
1	Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour	Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia	February 2	Report
2	Indianapolis 8 Hours	Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, United States	October 4	Report
3	24 Hours of Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium	October 24–25	Report
4	Kyalami 9 Hours	Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, Midrand, South Africa	December 12	Report
Cancelled due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic
Race		Circuit		Original Date
Suzuka 10 Hours		Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Japan		23 August

  Also part of the Australian Endurance Championship

  Also part of the GT World Challenge America

  Also part of the GT World Challenge Europe

Entry list

Manufacturer Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Aston Martin R-Motorsport Vantage AMR GT3 62 Olli Caldwell P 1 Luca Ghiotto Marvin Kirchhöfer 76 Jake Dennis P 1 Scott Dixon Rick Kelly Garage 59 159 Roman De Angelis S 1 Olivier Hart Andrew Watson 188 Chris Goodwin PA 1 Côme Ledogar Maxime Martin Alexander West Audi Audi Sport Team Valvoline R8 LMS Evo 2 Christopher Haase P 1 Dries Vanthoor Frédéric Vervisch 22 Mirko Bortolotti P 1 Christopher Mies Garth Tander 222 Mattia Drudi P 1 Kelvin van der Linde Markus Winkelhock Hallmarc 9 Marc Cini PA 1 Dean Fiore Lee Holdsworth Audi Sport Team Saintéloc Racing 25 Dorian Boccolacci P 3 Christopher Haase Markus Winkelhock Audi Sport Team Hardpoint WRT [N 1] Audi Sport Team WRT [N 1] ROFGO Racing with Team WRT [N 1] 30 Ferdinand Habsburg P 3 Dennis Marschall Matthieu Vaxiviere 31 Mirko Bortolotti P 2 Spencer Pumpelly Markus Winkelhock 2, 4 Kelvin van der Linde 3–4 Dries Vanthoor Christopher Mies 3 32 Mirko Bortolotti P 4 Frédéric Vervisch Charles Weerts 33 Rik Breukers S 3 Benjamin Goethe Stuart Hall Audi Sport Team Car Collection [N 2] Car Collection [N 2] 44 Mattia Drudi P 4 Christopher Haase Patric Niederhauser 45 Milan Dontje S 4 Martin Lechman Dennis Marschall Attempto Racing [N 3] Audi Sport Team Attempto Racing [N 3] 55 Alex Aka S 3 Finlay Hutchison Nicolas Schöll Kim-Luis Schramm 66 Mattia Drudi P 3 Patric Niederhauser Frédéric Vervisch Bentley K-PAX Racing Continental GT3 3 Jules Gounon P 3 Jordan Pepper Maxime Soulet 7 Jules Gounon P 2 Jordan Pepper Maxime Soulet 9 Rodrigo Baptista P 3 Andy Soucek Álvaro Parente Bentley Team M-Sport 7 Jules Gounon P 1, 4 Jordan Pepper Maxime Soulet 8 Alex Buncombe P 1, 4 Oliver Jarvis Seb Morris Team Parker Racing 11 Frank Bird S 3 Nicolai Kjærgaard Euan McKay CMR 107 Seb Morris P 3 Pierre-Alexandre Jean Nelson Panciatici 108 Stéphane Lémeret Am 3 Clement Mateu Romano Ricci Stéphane Tribaudini BMW Boutsen Ginion M6 GT3 10 Jens Klingmann PA 3 Benjamin Lessennes Karim Ojjeh Gilles Vannelet Walkenhorst Motorsport 34 Nicky Catsburg P All Augusto Farfus Chaz Mostert 1 Connor De Phillippi 2 Philipp Eng 3 Sheldon van der Linde 4 35 David Pittard P 2–4 Martin Tomczyk Nick Yelloly Ferrari Squadra Corse 488 GT3 1 Alessandro Balzan PA 2 Martin Fuentes Mark Issa Vital Speed 6 Trevor Baek P 2 Ryan Briscoe Jeff Westphal HubAuto Corsa 27 Marcos Gomes P 1, 3 Daniel Serra 1 Tim Slade Tom Blomqvist 3 Kamui Kobayashi AF Corse 51 James Calado P 3 Alessandro Pier Guidi Nicklas Nielsen 52 Andrea Bertolini PA 3 Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels Daniel Serra SMP Racing 72 Miguel Molina P 3 Davide Rigon Sergey Sirotkin Sky - Tempesta Racing 93 Eddie Cheever PA 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Chris Froggatt Jonathan Hui Rinaldi Racing 488 Pierre Ehret PA 3 Daniel Keilwitz Rino Mastronardi David Perel Honda Team Honda Racing NSX GT3 Evo 29 Dane Cameron P 3 Mario Farnbacher Renger van der Zande 30 Mario Farnbacher P 1–2, 4 Renger van der Zande Dane Cameron 1–2 Bertrand Baguette 4 Racers Edge Motorsports 93 Shelby Blackstock P 2 Trent Hindman Robert Megennis Lamborghini Emil Frey Racing Huracán GT3 Evo 14 Ricardo Feller P 3 Mikaël Grenier Norbert Siedler 163 Giacomo Altoè P 3 Albert Costa Franck Perera Orange1 FFF Racing Team 19 Raffaele Giammaria PA 3 Hiroshi Hamaguchi Phil Keen Luigi Moccia 63 Andrea Caldarelli P 1, 3 Dennis Lind Marco Mapelli Barwell Motorsport 77 Ricky Collard PA 3 Rob Collard Leo Machitski Sandy Mitchell 78 Patrick Kujala S 3 Alex MacDowall Frederik Schandorff Mercedes-AMG SunEnergy1 Racing AMG GT3 75 Dominik Baumann PA 1 Kenny Habul Martin Konrad David Reynolds Mercedes-AMG Team HRT [N 4] Haupt Racing Team [N 4] AMG GT3 Evo 4 Vincent Abril P 3 Maro Engel Luca Stolz 5 Sergey Afanasiev PA 3 Michele Beretta Hubert Haupt Gabriele Piana DXDT Racing 04 Colin Braun PA 2 Ben Keating George Kurtz 63 David Askew PA 2 Ryan Dalziel Richard Heistand CrowdStrike Racing with SPS 20 Dominic Baumann PA 3 Colin Braun George Kurtz Valentin Pierburg SunEnergy1 Racing 75 Mikaël Grenier PA 2 Kenny Habul Martin Konrad Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Black Falcon 77 Yelmer Buurman P 1 Maro Engel Luca Stolz HTP Motorsport 84 Indy Dontje S 3 Philip Ellis Russell Ward Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP [N 5] AKKA ASP [N 5] 88 Timur Boguslavskiy P 3 Felipe Fraga Raffaele Marciello 89 Alex Fontana S 3 Benjamin Hites Lucas Légeret Triple Eight Race Engineering 888 Shane van Gisbergen P 1 Maximilian Götz Jamie Whincup Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing 999 Maximilian Buhk P 1 Felipe Fraga Raffaele Marciello Porsche Earl Bamber Motorsport 911 GT3 R 1 Earl Bamber P 1 Craig Lowndes Laurens Vanthoor 12 David Calvert-Jones PA 1 Romain Dumas Jaxon Evans Lechner Racing 9 Andre Bezuidenhout PA 4 Saul Hack Dylan Pereira GPX Racing 12 Matt Campbell P 3–4 Mathieu Jaminet Patrick Pilet Wright Motorsports 20 Jan Heylen PA 2 Fred Poordad Max Root Frikadelli Racing Team 22 Timo Bernhard P 3 Frédéric Makowiecki Dennis Olsen KCMG 47 Michael Christensen P 3 Kévin Estre Richard Lietz Dinamic Motorsport 54 Earl Bamber P 4 Kévin Estre Laurens Vanthoor 56 Adrien de Leener S 3 Mikkel O. Pedersen Andrea Rizzoli Cedric Sbirrazzuoli Rowe Racing 98 Earl Bamber P 3 Nick Tandy Laurens Vanthoor Absolute Racing 911 Matt Campbell P 1 Mathieu Jaminet Patrick Pilet 912 Matteo Cairoli P 1 Thomas Preining Dirk Werner Herberth Motorsport 991 Daniel Allemann PA 3 Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer Sources: [3] [4]

Icon Class P Pro Cup S Silver Cup PA Pro-Am Cup Am Am Cup

Notes

1. Car No. 30 entered as Audi Sport Team WRT, Car No. 31 entered as Audi Sport Team Hardpoint WRT at round 2 and as Audi Sport Team WRT at rounds 3 & 4, Car No. 32 entered as Audi Sport Team WRT Car No. 33 entered as ROFGO Racing with Team WRT.
2. Car No. 44 entered as Audi Sport Team Car Collection and Car No. 45 entered as Car Collection.
3. Car No. 55 entered as Attempto Racing and Car No. 66 entered as Audi Sport Team Attempto Racing.
4. Car No. 4 entered as Mercedes-AMG Team HRT, Car No. 5 entered as Haupt Racing Team.
5. Car No. 88 entered as Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP, and Car No. 89 entered as AKKA ASP

Race results

Rnd.	Circuit	Pole position	IGTC Winners	Winning Manufacturer	Ref.
1	Bathurst	No. 911 Absolute Racing	No. 7 Bentley Team M-Sport	Mercedes-AMG	[5] [6]
		Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet Patrick Pilet	Jules Gounon Jordan Pepper Maxime Soulet
2	Indianapolis	No. 34 Walkenhorst Motorsport	No. 34 Walkenhorst Motorsport	BMW	[7] [8]
		Nicky Catsburg Connor De Phillippi Augusto Farfus	Nicky Catsburg Connor De Phillippi Augusto Farfus
3	Spa-Francorchamps	No. 88 Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP	No. 98 Rowe Racing	Porsche	[9] [10]
		Timur Boguslavskiy Felipe Fraga Raffaele Marciello	Earl Bamber Nick Tandy Laurens Vanthoor
4	Kyalami	No. 30 Team Honda Racing	No. 34 Walkenhorst Motorsport	BMW	[11] [12]
		Bertrand Baguette Mario Farnbacher Renger van der Zande	Nicky Catsburg Augusto Farfus Sheldon van der Linde

Championship standings

Scoring System

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

Driver's championship

The results indicate the classification relative to other drivers in the series, not the classification in the race.

Pos. Driver Manufacturer BAT IND SPA KYA Points 1 Nicky Catsburg Augusto Farfus BMW Ret 1 Ret 1 50 2 Matt Campbell Mathieu Jaminet Patrick Pilet Porsche 3 3 3 45 3 Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 7 1 7 37 4 Frédéric Vervisch Audi Ret 2 2 36 5 Mario Farnbacher Renger van der Zande Honda Ret 3 8 4 31 6 Mirko Bortolotti Audi Ret 4 2 30 7 Jules Gounon Jordan Pepper Maxime Soulet Bentley 1 10 9 Ret 28 8 Mattia Drudi Audi 12 2 5 28 8 Patric Niederhauser Audi 2 5 28 9 David Pittard Martin Tomczyk Nick Yelloly BMW 2 Ret 6 26 9 Markus Winkelhock Audi 12 4 5 8 26 10 Connor De Phillippi BMW 1 25 10 Nick Tandy Porsche 1 25 10 Sheldon van der Linde BMW 1 25 11 Maro Engel Luca Stolz Mercedes-AMG 4 6 20 11 Christopher Haase Audi Ret 5 5 20 12 Dane Cameron Honda Ret 3 8 19 13 Shane van Gisbergen Maximilian Götz Jamie Whincup Mercedes-AMG 2 18 14 Charles Weerts Audi 2 18 15 Yelmer Buurman Mercedes-AMG 4 12 15 Spencer Pumpelly Audi 4 12 15 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi Nicklas Nielsen Ferrari 4 12 15 Bertrand Baguette Honda 4 12 16 Felipe Fraga Raffaele Marciello Mercedes-AMG 5 Ret 10 16 Maximilian Buhk Mercedes-AMG 5 10 16 Colin Braun George Kurtz Mercedes-AMG 5 22 10 16 Ben Keating Mercedes-AMG 5 10 16 Dorian Boccolacci Audi 5 10 17 Matteo Cairoli Thomas Preining Dirk Werner Porsche 6 8 17 Jan Heylen Fred Poordad Max Root Porsche 6 8 17 Vincent Abril Mercedes-AMG 6 8 18 Craig Lowndes Porsche 7 6 18 Shelby Blackstock Trent Hindman Robert Megennis Honda 7 6 18 Jörg Bergmeister Frédéric Makowiecki Dennis Olsen Porsche 7 6 18 Kévin Estre Porsche 11 7 6 19 David Calvert-Jones Romain Dumas Jaxon Evans Porsche 8 4 19 Alessandro Balzan Martin Fuentes Mark Issa Ferrari 8 4 19 Kelvin van der Linde Audi 12 Ret 8 4 19 Dries Vanthoor Audi Ret Ret 8 4 20 Roman De Angelis Olivier Hart Andrew Watson Aston Martin 9 2 20 Kenny Habul Martin Konrad Mercedes-AMG 13 9 2 20 Mikaël Grenier Mercedes-AMG 9 2 Lamborghini 14 20 Seb Morris Bentley Ret 27 9 2 20 Alex Buncombe Oliver Jarvis Bentley Ret 9 2 21 Jake Dennis Scott Dixon Rick Kelly Aston Martin 10 1 21 Rodrigo Baptista Álvaro Parente Andy Soucek Bentley 10 1 21 Andre Bezuidenhout Saul Hack Dylan Pereira Porsche 10 1 Dennis Marschall Audi 12 11 0 Marc Cini Dean Fiore Lee Holdsworth Audi 11 0 Michael Christensen Richard Lietz Porsche 11 0 Milan Dontje Martin Lechman Audi 11 0 Ferdinand Habsburg Mathieu Vaxivierè Audi 12 0 Dominik Baumann Mercedes-AMG 13 22 0 David Reynolds Mercedes-AMG 13 0 Ricky Collard Rob Collard Leo Machitski Sandy Mitchell Lamborghini 13 0 Ricardo Feller Norbert Siedler Lamborghini 14 0 Eddie Cheever Giancarlo Fisichella Chris Froggatt Jonathan Hui Ferrari 15 0 Sergey Afanasyev Michele Beretta Hubert Haupt Gabriele Piana Mercedes-AMG 16 0 Miguel Molina Davide Rigon Sergey Sirotkin Ferrari 17 0 Indy Dontje Philip Ellis Russel Ward Mercedes-AMG 18 0 Pierre Ehret Daniel Keilwitz David Perel Rino Mastronardi Ferrari 19 0 Marcos Gomes Ferrari WD 20 0 Tom Blomqvist Kamui Kobayashi Ferrari 20 0 Jens Klingmann Benjamin Lessennes Karim Ojjeh Gilles Vannelet BMW 21 0 Valentin Pierburg Mercedes-AMG 22 0 Frank Bird Nicolai Kjærgaard Euan McKay Bentley 23 0 Alex Fontana Benjamin Hites Lucas Légeret Mercedes-AMG 24 0 Stéphane Lémeret Clement Mateu Romano Ricci Stéphane Tribaudini Bentley 25 0 Giacomo Altoè Albert Costa Franck Perera Lamborghini 26 0 Pierre-Alexandre Jean Nelson Panciatici Bentley 27 0 Rik Breukers Benjamin Goethe Stuart Hall Audi 28 0 Daniel Serra Ferrari WD 29 0 Andrea Bertolini Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels Ferrari 29 0 Patrick Kujala Alex MacDowall Frederik Schandorff Lamborghini 30 0 Daniel Allemann Ralf Bohn Alfred Renauer Robert Renauer Porsche 31 0 Andrea Caldarelli Dennis Lind Marco Mapelli Lamborghini Ret 32 0 Christopher Mies Audi Ret Ret 0 Chaz Mostert BMW Ret 0 Garth Tander Audi Ret 0 Chris Goodwin Côme Ledogar Maxime Martin Alexander West Aston Martin Ret 0 David Askew Ryan Dalziel Richard Heistand Mercedes-AMG Ret 0 Trevor Baek Ryan Briscoe Jeff Westphal Ferrari Ret 0 Timur Boguslavskiy Mercedes-AMG Ret 0 Adrien de Leener Mikkel O. Pedersen Andrea Rizzoli Cedric Sbirrazuoli Porsche Ret 0 Philipp Eng BMW Ret 0 Raffaele Giammaria Hiroshi Hamaguchi Phil Keen Luigi Moccia Lamborghini Ret 0 Alex Aka Simon Gachet Finlay Hutchison Nicolas Schöll Audi Ret 0 Tim Slade Ferrari WD Olli Caldwell Luca Ghiotto Marvin Kirchhöfer Aston Martin WD Pos. Driver Manufacturer BAT IND SPA KYA Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Manufacturer's championship

Pos.	Manufacturer	Car	BAT	IND	SPA	KYA	Points
1	Porsche	911 GT3 R	3	6	1	3	100
			6		3	7
					7
2	BMW	M6 GT3	Ret	1	21	1	76
				2	Ret	6
					Ret
3	Audi	R8 LMS Evo	11	4	2	2	74
			12		5	5
					12
4	Mercedes-AMG	AMG GT3 AMG GT3 Evo	2	5	6		50
			4	9	16
					18
5	Honda	NSX GT3 Evo	Ret	3	8	4	37
				7
6	Bentley	Continental GT3	1	10	9	9	33
			Ret		10	Ret
					23
7	Ferrari	488 GT3 488 GT3 Evo 2020	WD	8	4		16
				Ret	15
					17
8	Aston Martin	Vantage AMR GT3	9				14
			10
	Lamborghini	Huracán GT3 Evo	Ret		13		0
					14
					26
Pos.	Manufacturer	Car	BAT	IND	SPA	KYA	Points

See also

• 2020 GT World Challenge Europe
• 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
• 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
• 2020 GT World Challenge Asia
• 2020 GT World Challenge America

References

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2. "Once-in-a-lifetime 25-hour edition for the Total 24 Hours of Spa". SRO Motorsports Group. 22 June 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
3. "Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli's biggest-ever Bathurst entry to kick off 2020 Down Under". intercontinentalgtchallenge.com. SRO Motorsports Group. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
4. Goodwin, Graham (28 September 2020). "23 Car Entry For Indianapolis 8 Hour, 13 x GT3 & 10 x GT4". dailysportscar.com. Dailysportscar.com. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
5. Zalavari, Michael (1 January 2020). "Campbell Claims Pole For Absolute Porsche". dailysportscar.com. Dailysportscar. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
6. Dagys, John (2 February 2020). "Bentley Breaks Through for Bathurst 12H Win". sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
7. Dagys, John (3 October 2020). "De Phillippi Puts Walkenhorst BMW on Pole for Indy 8H". sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
8. Goodwin, Graham (5 October 2020). "BMW Score 1-2 At Indy 8 Hours". dailysportscar.com. Dailysportscar. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
9. Lloyd, Dan (23 October 2020). "Marciello Takes 24H Spa Pole in AKKA-ASP Mercedes". sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
10. Watkins, Gary (26 October 2020). "Spa 24 Hours: Porsche wins after late charge from Tandy". motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. Retrieved 26 October 2020.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
11. Goodwin, Graham (11 December 2020). "Farnbacher Grabs Second Consecutive 2020 IGTC Pole for Honda Racing At Kyalami". dailysportscar.com. Daily Sports Car. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
12. Lloyd, Daniel (12 December 2020). "Catsburg, Farfus Champions as Walkenhorst Wins Kyalami 9H". sportscar365.com. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 15 December 2020.

External links

• Official website