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The 2023 Ferrari Challenge Europe was the 31st season of Ferrari Challenge Europe and its predecessor Ferrari Challenge Italy. The season consists of 7 rounds, starting at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo on 24 March 2023 and ending at Mugello Circuit during the Ferrari World Finals on 30 October 2023.
The season consists of 14 races run at seven different circuits in Europe. [1]
| Rnd. | Circuit | Dates | Map |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Cheste, Spain | 24–26 March | |
| 2 |  Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico, Italy | 21–23 April | |
| 3 |  Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria | 12–14 May | |
| 4 |  Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France | 7–10 June | |
| 5 |  Circuito do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal | 14–19 July | |
| 6 |  Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium | 15–17 September | |
| 7 | Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello, Scarperia e San Piero, Italy | 24–30 October |
| Team | No. | Driver | Class | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Pozzi GT Racing | 1 |  Franz Engstler | Pro-Am | All |
| 6 | Thomas Neubauer | Pro | 4 | |
 Rosso Scuderia | 2 | Yudai Uchida | Pro-Am | 7 |
| 501 | 4 | |||
| 14 | Nobuhiro Imada | Pro-Am | 7 | |
| 504 | 4 | |||
| CDP | 3 | Max Mugelli | Pro | All |
| 50 | David Gostner | Pro-Am | All | |
| 69 | Marco Zanasi | Pro-Am | 2, 5, 7 | |
 Formula Racing | 4 | Philippe Prette | Pro-Am | 1–3, 5–7 |
| 10 | Kim Eriksen | Pro-Am | All | |
| 47 | Andreas Bogh-Sorensen | Pro-Am | All | |
| 98 | Claus Zibrandtsen | Pro-Am | 6 | |
| Gohm Motorsport | 5 | Adrian Sutil | Pro | 1–3, 5–7 |
| 15 | Germano Salernitano | Pro-Am | 7 | |
| 21 |  Szymon Ladniak | Pro | All | |
 Ezz Elarab Automotive Company | 7 | Mohamed Hamdy | Pro-Am | 5–7 |
| 37 | 1–4 | |||
 Kessel Racing | 8 | Nicolò Rosi | Pro-Am | All |
| 27 | Dennis De Marco | Pro | 1–2 | |
| Penske Sportswagen Hamburg | 9 | Danilo Del Favero | Pro-Am | All |
| Garage Zenith - Ecurie Francorchamps | 11 | Nicola D'Aniello | Pro-Am | 6–7 |
| Radicci Automobili | 12 | Giammarco Marzialetti | Pro-Am | 1–2, 7 |
| 19 | Eliseo Donno | Pro | All | |
| 23 | Rocco Mazzola | Pro | 2 | |
 Ferrari of Central Florida | 22 | Enzo Potolicchio | Pro-Am | 6 |
 Graypaul Birmingham | 24 | Lucky Khera | Pro-Am | All |
| Meridien Modena - FF Corse | 26 | James Owen | Pro-Am | All |
| MERTEL Motorsport | 42 | Matthias Tomann | Pro-Am | 7 |
| 89 |  Leon Rijnbeek | Pro-Am | 6 | |
 Scuderia Praha | 67 | Josef Král | Pro | 2 |
| 77 |  Ruslan Sadreev | Pro-Am | 5–7 | |
| 92 | Hendrik Viol | Pro-Am | 5–7 | |
| Lueg Sportivo | 71 | Otto Blank | Pro-Am | All |
| HR Owen - FF Corse | 73 | Thomas Fleming | Pro | All |
| HR Owen | ||||
| 416 | Han Sikkens | Pro-Am | 4 | |
| 476 |  Faisal Al-Faisal | Pro-Am | 4 | |
| Rossocorsa | 80 |  Angelo Fontana | Pro-Am | 6 |
| Riller und Schnauck | 81 | Nick Halle | Pro-Am | All |
| 88 | Amin Arefpour | Pro-Am | 1–5, 7 | |
 FML - D2P | 82 | Martin Havas | Pro-Am | 6 |
| Emil Frey | 85 | Hanno Laskowski | Pro-Am | All |
 Rossocorsa - Ferrari Budapest | 86 | Bence Valint | Pro | 2–7 |
| Continental Autosports | 204 | Tony Davis | Pro-Am | 4 |
| Wide World Ferrari | 211 | Jason McCarthy | Pro-Am | 4 |
| Ferrari Beverly Hills | 221 | Mathew Kurzejewski | Pro-Am | 4 |
| The Collection | 288 |  Custodio Toledo | Pro-Am | 4 |
| Charles Hurst | 404 | Andrew Morrow | Pro-Am | 4 |
| Graypaul Nottingham | 451 | Carl Cavers | Pro-Am | 4 |
| Team | No. | Driver | Class | Rounds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kessel Racing | 100 | Stephen Earle | S-Am | 5–7 |
| 124 |  Kirk Baerwaldt | S-Am | All | |
| 133 |  Murat Cuhadaroglu | S | 7 | |
| 140 | Pino Frascaro | S-Am | All | |
| 177 | Fons Scheltema | S | All | |
| Sa.Mo.Car | 101 | Paolo Scudieri | S-Am | All |
| Autohaus Ulrich | 103 | 'Boris Gideon' | S-Am | 1–3, 5–7 |
| Cornes Motors Shiba | 105 | Motohiko Isozaki | S-Am | All |
| Stratstone Manchester | 106 | Paul Hogarth | S-Am | 6 |
| 406 | 4 | |||
| Rossocorsa | 107 | Stefano Marazzi | S-Am | All |
| 118 | James Weiland | S | 7 | |
| 119 |  Luis Perusquia | S-Am | All | |
| Gohm Motorsport | 109 | Ernst Kirchmayr | S | 6–7 |
| 128 |  Christian Kinch | S | All | |
| 136 | Alexander Nussbaumer | S | All | |
| 152 | Thomas Lofflad | S | 5–7 | |
| 159 | Matthias Moser | S-Am | 6 | |
| MERTEL Motorsport | 111 | Martinus Richter | S-Am | All |
| Formula Racing | 113 | Henrik Kamstrup | S-Am | All |
| 121 | Peter Christensen | S | All | |
| 170 | Ken Abe | S | 7 | |
| 198 |  Eric Cheung | S | All | |
| Cornes Osaka | 114 | Masaru Yoneda | S-Am | 7 |
| 116 | Kanji Yagura | S | 7 | |
| 135 | "Baby Kei" | S-Am | 7 | |
| Kroymans - Race Art | 117 | Roger Grouwels | S | All |
| Scuderia FMA | 120 | Guy Fawe | S | 6–7 |
| Graypaul Birmingham | 123 | Paul Simmerson | S-Am | 6 |
| 477 | 4 | |||
| Scuderia Autoropa | 126 | Joakim Olander | S | All |
| 199 | Ingvar Mattsson | S | All | |
| Baron Motorsport | 127 | Tommy Lindroth | S-Am | All |
| 131 | Christian Windischberger | S-Am | 3 | |
| European Version | 129 | Masafumi Hiwatashi | S-Am | 7 |
| Emil Frey | 134 | Mutlu Tasev | S-Am | All |
| 183 | Christian Herdt-Wipper | S | All | |
| Rosso Scuderia | 139 | Yasutaka Shirasaki | S | 7 |
| Moll Sportwagen Hamburg | 150 | Werner Genter | S-Am | 6–7 |
| Graypaul Nottingham | 151 | John Dhillon | S | All |
| CDP | 161 | Thomas Gostner | S | All |
| 173 | Corinna Gostner | S | All | |
| 193 | Manuela Gostner | S | All | |
 CTF Group China | 168 | Yanbin Xing | S | 7 |
| 169 | Yansheng Liang | S-Am | 7 | |
| Rossocorsa - Pellin Racing | 102 | Thor Haugen | S | 6 |
| 130 | Lisa Clark | S-Am | 3, 6 | |
| 172 | Giuseppe Ramelli | S-Am | 1–3, 6–7 | |
| Lueg Sportivo | 178 | Axel Sartingen | S | All |
| Radicci Automobili | 181 | Maurizio Pitorri | S-Am | 1 |
 Scuderia Monte-Carlo | 182 | Willem van der Vorm | S | All |
| Eberlein Automobile | 188 | Josef Schumacher | S-Am | All |
| Charles Pozzi GT Racing | 190 | Roland Hertner | S-Am | All |
| The Collection | 307 | Rey Acosta | S | 4 |
| Foreign Cars Italia | 321 | Roy Carroll | S | 4 |
| Ferrari Beverly Hills | 326 | Eric Marston | S | 4 |
| 327 | Lisa Clark | S-Am | 4 | |
| Ferrari of Seattle | 332 | Yahn Bernier | S | 4 |
| Ferrari Silicon Valley | 358 | Bruce Cleveland | S-Am | 4 |
| Ferrari of Austin | 363 | Dan Cornish | S-Am | 4 |
| Ferrari of San Francisco | 366 | Brad Fauvre | S | 4 |
| Ferrari of Denver | 373 | Sureel Choksi | S | 4 |
| Ferrari of Atlanta | 376 | Lance Cawley | S-Am | 4 |
| HR Owen | 407 | Jonathan Satchell | S-Am | 4 |
| Maranello Sales | 415 | Stuart Marston | S-Am | 4 |
| 466 | Julian Dye | S-Am | 4 |
| Pos. | Driver | VAL | MIS | RBR | LMS | EST | SPA | MUG | Points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||
| Pro | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Eliseo Donno | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 172 |
| 2 | Thomas Fleming | 2 | 4 | 1 | DSQ | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 160 |
| 3 | Bence Valint | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 103 | ||||
| 4 | Max Mugelli | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 103 |
| 5 | Szymon Ladniak | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 92 |
| 6 | Adrian Sutil | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 75 | |||||
| 7 | Thomas Neubauer | 1 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Rocco Mazzola | 5 | 2 | 19 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Josef Král | 3 | 6 | 15 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Dennis De Marco | 5 | 5 | 13 | |||||||||||
| Pro-Am | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Franz Engstler | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Ret | 168 |
| 2 | Hanno Laskowski | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 99 | ||
| 3 | Nicolò Rosi | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 75 | ||||
| 4 | Hendrik Viol | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 55 | |||||||
| 5 | James Owen | 7 | Ret | 4 | 6 | DSQ | 5 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 49 |
| 6 | Danilo Del Favero | 6 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 11 | Ret | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 49 |
| 7 | Yudai Uchida | 5 | 1 | 1 | 42 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Marco Zanasi | 9 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 41 | |||||||
| 9 | David Gostner | 6 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 39 | ||||||||
| 10 | Lucky Khera | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 37 | ||||||
| 11 | Philippe Prette | 2 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 32 | |||||||||
| 12 | Mohamed Hamdy | 8 | 6 | Ret | 12 | 4 | Ret | 16 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 3 | 31 | ||
| 13 | Mathew Kurzejewski | 1 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| 14 | Kim Eriksen | 9 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | Ret | 12 | 21 |
| 15 | Claus Zibrandtsen | 3 | 4 | 19 | |||||||||||
| 16 | Enzo Potolicchio | 4 | 3 | 19 | |||||||||||
| 17 | Nobuhiro Imada | 3 | 7 | 10 | 16 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Andreas Bogh-Sorensen | 10 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 | DSQ | 9 | 12 | |||||
| 19 | Faisal Al-Faisal | 4 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | Andrew Morrow | 8 | 5 | 8 | 11 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Giammarco Marzialetti | 13 | Ret | 5 | 8 | Ret | 11 | 10 | |||||||
| 22 | Otto Blank | 9 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 9 | ||||
| 23 | Amin Arefpour | 12 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 11 | Ret | 13 | 16 | 8 | |
| 24 | Han Sikkens | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 25 | Angelo Fontana | Ret | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 26 | Ruslan Sadreev | 7 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 5 | |||||||
| 27 | Nick Halle | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 18 | DNS | 12 | 19 | 5 | |||||
| 28 | Nicola D'Aniello | 12 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 2 | |||||||||
| 29 | Leon Rijnbeek | 10 | 15 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 30 | Matthias Tomann | 10 | 15 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 31 | Martin Havas | Ret | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 32 | Tony Davis | 13 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 33 | Germano Salernitano | 16 | 18 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 34 | Jason McCarthy | 19 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 35 | Custodio Toledo | Ret | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 36 | Carl Cavers | Ret | 1 | ||||||||||||
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