The 2023 Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup was the eleventh 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 third with the sponsorship of Fanatec.
The season began on 13 May at Brands Hatch in Kent and ended on 15 October at Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands.
The provisional calendar was released on 29 July 2022 at the SRO's annual 24 Hours of Spa press conference, featuring five rounds. [1] Several adjustments were announced following the conflict between the Belgian Grand Prix and 24 Hours of Spa. The opening round was moved back two weeks, as was the round at Misano. The event at Zandvoort was moved to the season finale in October. [2]
Round | Circuit | Date |
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1 | Brands Hatch, Kent | 13–14 May |
2 | Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico | 15–16 July |
3 | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | 2–3 September |
4 | Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Cheste | 16–17 September |
5 | Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort | 14–15 October |
Round | Circuit | Pole Position | Overall Winners | Gold Winners | Silver Winners | Bronze Winners | Report | |
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1 | R1 | Brands Hatch | No. 88 AKKodis ASP Team | No. 88 AKKodis ASP Team | No. 9 Boutsen VDS | No. 99 Tresor Atttempto Racing | Did not participate | Report |
Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello | Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello | Alberto Di Folco Aurélien Panis | Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese | |||||
R2 | No. 27 Saintéloc Junior Team | No. 40 Tresor Orange1 | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 119 VSR | Report | |||
Grégoire Demoustier Christopher Mies | Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller | Niklas Krütten Calan Williams | Baptiste Moulin Marcus Påverud | |||||
2 | R1 | Misano | No. 88 AKKodis ASP Team | No. 88 AKKodis ASP Team | No. 9 Boutsen VDS | No. 77 Haupt Racing Team | No. 188 Garage 59 | Report |
Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello | Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello | Alberto Di Folco Aurélien Panis | Frank Bird Jordan Love | Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos | ||||
R2 | No. 32 Team WRT | No. 46 Team WRT | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 99 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 188 Garage 59 | Report | ||
Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts | Maxime Martin Valentino Rossi | Niklas Krütten Calan Williams | Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese | Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos | ||||
3 | R1 | Hockenheim | No. 60 VSR | No. 40 Tresor Orange1 | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 77 Haupt Racing Team | No. 66 Tresor Attempto Racing | Report |
Jordan Pepper Franck Perera | Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller | Niklas Krütten Calan Williams | Jordan Love Alain Valente | Dennis Marschall Andrey Mukovoz | ||||
R2 | No. 40 Tresor Orange1 | No. 88 AKKodis ASP Team | No. 9 Boutsen VDS | No. 99 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 79 Haupt Racing Team | Report | ||
Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller | Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello | Alberto Di Folco Aurélien Panis | Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese | Sébastien Baud Hubert Haupt | ||||
4 | R1 | Valencia | No. 66 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 88 AKKodis ASP Team | No. 21 Comtoyou Racing | No. 99 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 66 Tresor Attempto Racing | Report |
Dennis Marschall Andrey Mukovoz | Timur Boguslavskiy Raffaele Marciello | Finlay Hutchison Gilles Magnus | Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese | Dennis Marschall Andrey Mukovoz | ||||
R2 | No. 26 Saintéloc Junior Team | No. 32 Team WRT | No. 26 Saintéloc Junior Team | No. 99 Tresor Attempto Racing | No. 911 Pure Rxcing | Report | ||
Paul Evrard Simon Gachet | Dries Vanthoor Charles Weerts | Paul Evrard Simon Gachet | Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese | Alex Malykhin Ayhancan Güven | ||||
5 | R1 | Zandvoort | No. 40 Tresor Orange1 | No. 40 Tresor Orange1 | No. 10 Boutsen VDS | No. 77 Haupt Racing Team | Did not participate | Report |
Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller | Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller | Adam Eteki César Gazeau | Jordan Love Frank Bird | |||||
R2 | No. 46 Team WRT | No. 40 Tresor Orange1 | No. 30 Team WRT | No. 77 Haupt Racing Team | Report | |||
Maxime Martin Valentino Rossi | Mattia Drudi Ricardo Feller | Niklas Krütten Calan Williams | Jordan Love Frank Bird |
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 | VAL | ZAN | Points | |||||
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1 | Niklas Krütten Calan Williams | Team WRT | 15F | 7F | 11 | 11 | 5 | 30F | Ret | 18 | 13 | 3PF | 113.5 |
2 | Alberto Di Folco Aurélien Panis | Boutsen VDS | 9P | 26 | 6F | Ret | 10F | 10P | 29 | 8 | 20 | 17 | 105 |
3 | Finlay Hutchinson Gilles Magnus | Comtoyou Racing | 17 | 9P | RetP | 19F | 26P | 15 | 14P | 14 | 14P | 11 | 98 |
4 | Adam Eteki César Gazeau | Boutsen VDS | 12 | 28† | 14 | 17 | 6 | 19 | 36† | 24 | 11F | 26† | 93 |
5 | Paul Evrard Simon Gachet | Saintéloc Junior Team | 11 | 13 | 19 | 24P | 13 | Ret | 21F | 6PF | 24 | 15 | 90 |
6 | Patryk Krupiński Norbert Siedler | JP Motorsport | 25 | 21 | 10.5 | ||||||||
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | VAL | ZAN | Points |
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | VAL | ZAN | Points | |||||
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1 | Jordan Love | Haupt Racing Team | 20F | 16 | 12P | 16 | 12P | 14 | 11P | 13 | 6F | 6P | 135 |
2 | Alex Aka Lorenzo Patrese | Tresor Attempto Racing | 10P | 21F | 18F | 12F | 33† | 13F | 10F | 4PF | 12P | 25†F | 118 |
3 | Ezequiel Pérez Companc Jesse Salmenautio | Madpanda Motorsport | 25 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 25 | 22 | 15 | 14 | 92 |
4 | Frank Bird | Haupt Racing Team | 20F | 16 | 12P | 16 | 6F | 6P | 80.5 | ||||
5 | Jacopo Guidetti Leonardo Moncini | Nova Race | 18 | 19 | 26 | 27 | Ret | 25 | 26 | 20 | 19 | 23 | 63.5 |
6 | Sean Hudspeth Nicola Marinangeli | AF Corse | 23 | RetP | 28 | 26P | 17 | 24 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 19 | 55 |
7 | Alain Valente | Haupt Racing Team | 12P | 14 | 11P | 13 | 54.5 | ||||||
8 | Yuki Nemoto | VSR | 22 | 22 | Ret | 13 | 16 | 21 | 20 | Ret | 48.5 | ||
9 | Marcus Påverud | VSR | 24 | 15 | 27 | 35† | Ret | 28 | Ret | Ret | 18 | 20 | 44.5 |
10 | Maximilian Paul | Paul Motorsport | 15F | RetP | 35 | ||||||||
VSR | 20 | Ret | 18 | 20 | |||||||||
11 | Baptiste Moulin | VSR | 24 | 15 | 27 | 35† | Ret | 28 | Ret | Ret | 29.5 | ||
12 | Rolf Ineichen | VSR | 22 | 22 | 16 | 21 | 27 | ||||||
13 | Erwin Zanotti | Nova Race | 26 | 24 | 34 | 32 | 24 | 26 | 32 | 33† | 22 | Ret | 25.5 |
14 | Diego Di Fabio | Nova Race | 26 | 24 | 34 | 32 | 24 | 26 | 16.5 | ||||
15 | Mattia Michelotto | VSR | Ret | 13 | 12 | ||||||||
16 | Simon Connor Primm | Paul Motorsport | 15F | RetP | 10.5 | ||||||||
17 | Alex Frassinetti | Nova Race | 32 | 33† | 22 | Ret | 9 | ||||||
18 | James Kell Jarrod Waberski | GSM AB1 GT3 Team | 34 | 30 | 6.5 | ||||||||
19 | Alessio Deledda Pietro Delli Guanti | Tresor Attempto Racing | 31 | 28 | 6 | ||||||||
20 | Nicholas Risitano | GSM AB1 GT3 Team | 27 | 27 | 37 | 34 | 5 | ||||||
21 | Paul Meijer Harley Haughton | GSM AB1 GT3 Team | Ret | 24 | 4.5 | ||||||||
22 | Matteo Desideri Federico Scionti | GSM AB1 GT3 Team | 27 | 33 | 4 | ||||||||
23 | Fernando Croce | GSM AB1 GT3 Team | 27 | 27 | 3 | ||||||||
24 | Fidel Castillo | GSM AB1 GT3 Team | 37 | 34 | 2 | ||||||||
Pos. | Drivers | Team | BRH | MIS | HOC | VAL | ZAN | Points |
Pos. | Drivers | Team | MIS | HOC | VAL | Points | |||
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1 | Alex Malykhin | Pure Rxcing | 21 | 21 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 71.5 |
2 | Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos | Garage 59 | 13PF | 20 | 29 | 23 | 22 | 25 | 60.5 |
3 | Dennis Marschall Andrey Mukovoz | Tresor Attempto Racing | 36 | 22F | 18PF | DSQF | 18PF | 23F | 54 |
4 | Ayhancan Güven | Pure Rxcing | 21 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 52.5 | ||
5 | Ralf Bohn Robert Renauer | Herberth Motorsport | 29 | 23 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 27 | 49.5 |
6 | Sébastien Baud Hubert Haupt | Haupt Racing Team | 25 | 25 | Ret | 18 | 24 | 31P | 38.5 |
7 | Reema Juffali Fabian Schiller | Theeba Motorsport | 24 | Ret | 22 | 32P | 30 | 21 | 30.5 |
8 | Phillip Sager Christopher Zöchling | Dinamic GT Huber Racing | 30 | 29 | 21 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 27 |
9 | Klaus Bachler | Pure Rxcing | 20 | 22 | 19 | ||||
10 | Patryk Krupiński Norbert Siedler | JP Motorsport | 23 | Ret | 25 | Ret | 14 | ||
11 | Louis Machiels | AF Corse | 35 | 30 | Ret | 27 | 35 | 32 | 12 |
12 | Eric Debard Jim Pla | AKKodis ASP Team | 33 | 31 | Ret | 31 | 27 | Ret | 10.5 |
13 | Andrea Bertolini | AF Corse | 35 | 30 | Ret | 27 | 9.5 | ||
14 | Steven Palette | CLRT | 32 | 36† | 28 | Ret | 33 | Ret | 6.5 |
15 | Stéphane Denoual | CLRT | 28 | Ret | 33 | Ret | 4 | ||
16 | Jef Machiels | AF Corse | 35 | 32 | 2.5 | ||||
16 | Marco Cassarà | CLRT | 32 | 36† | 2.5 | ||||
17 | Dmitry Gvazava Loris Spinelli | Imperiale Racing | Ret | 33P | 2 | ||||
Pos. | Drivers | Team | MIS | HOC | VAL | Points |
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