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The 2024 Porsche Sprint Challenge Southern Europe is a multi-event, one-make motor racing championship held across Europe. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers. The 2024 season was the 2nd season, the season began on 27 January 2024 at Portimão and finished on 2 March at Barcelona. [1]
The following teams and drivers are currently signed to run the 2024 season.
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| Round | Circuit | Date |
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| 1 |  Algarve International Circuit, Portimão | 27–28 January |
| 2 | Circuito do Estoril, Estoril | 2–3 February |
| 3 |  Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Cheste | 23–24 February |
| 4 | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló | 1–2 March |
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| Round | Circuit | Pole position | Fastest Lap | Overall Winner | Pro-Am Winner | Am Winner | GT4 Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Algarve |  Ariel Levi | Ariel Levi |  Alexander Tauscher |  Alexander Reimann |  Nicolas Saelens |  Seb Hopkins |
| Ariel Levi |  Mathys Jaubert | Ariel Levi |  Jules Grouwels | Ian Loggie | Seb Hopkins | ||
| 2 | Estoril | Alexander Tauscher | Ariel Levi | Ariel Levi | Jules Grouwels | Philippe Wils | Seb Hopkins |
| Ariel Levi | Ariel Levi | Ariel Levi | Alexander Reimann | Robert Sulma | Seb Hopkins | ||
| 3 | Valencia | Hugo Ellis | Hugo Ellis | Kas Haverkort | |||
| Ariel Levi | Ariel Levi | Alexander Tauscher | |||||
| 4 | Barcelona | ||||||
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Pos | Driver | ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | Pts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||
| 1 | Ariel Levi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 92 | ||
| 2 | Alexander Tauscher | 1 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 56 | ||
| 3 | Sebastian Freymuth | 4 | Ret | 2 | 2 | 9 | Ret | 55 | ||
| 4 | Louis Rousset | 11 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 47 | ||
| 5 |  Horst Felix Felbermayr | 6 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 7 | Ret | 46 | ||
| 6 |  Marco Giltrap | 5 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 44 | ||
| 7 |  Robin Knutsson | 12 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 5 | Ret | 41 | ||
| 8 |  Filip Ugran | 8 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 39 | ||||
| 9 | Sacha Norden | 7 | 7 | 18 | 8 | 29 | 7 | 36 | ||
| 10 | Hugo Ellis | 13 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 34 | ||
| 11 | Mathys Jaubert | 2 | 6 | 33 | ||||||
| 12 | Angus Whiteside | 9 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 20 | 30 | ||
| 13 |  Pietro Armanni | 10 | 5 | Ret | 12 | 21 | 9 | 29 | ||
| 14 | Alberto Cerqui | 21 | 4 | 6 | Ret | 28 | ||||
| 15 | Senna Van Soelen | Ret | 9 | 3 | Ret | 13 | 6 | 27 | ||
| 16 | Huub van Eijndhoven | 8 | 5 | 25 | ||||||
| 17 | Josh Stanton | 14 | Ret | 12 | 15 | 28 | 10 | 17 | ||
| 18 | Fernando Monje | 19 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 15 | ||
| 19 | Sid Smith | 20 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 20 | 12 | 11 | ||
| 20 | Juriaan De Back | 23 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 27 | Ret | 8 | ||
| 21 |  Anthony Imperato | 15 | 19 | 20 | Ret | 23 | Ret | 4 | ||
| 22 | Thomas Kangro | 25 | 15 | NC | Ret | 17 | 11 | 3 | ||
| 23 | Giuseppe Guirreri | 17 | Ret | 21 | Ret | 14 | 14 | 3 | ||
| 24 | Dréke Janssen | 18 | Ret | 24 | Ret | 19 | 21 | 2 | ||
| 25 | Jef Machiels | 17 | Ret | 18 | 13 | 2 | ||||
| Kas Haverkort | 1 | Ret | ||||||||
| Jan Seyffert | 2 | 8 | ||||||||
| Oliver Gray | 15 | 4 | ||||||||
| Flynt Schuring | Ret | Ret | ||||||||
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | Pts |
| ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | |||||||
| Pos | Driver | ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | Pts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||
| 1 | Jules Grouwels | 22 | 18 | 22 | 17 | 90 | ||||
| 2 | Alexander Reimann | 16 | 22 | 23 | 14 | 87 | ||||
| 3 |  Cengiz James Oguzhan | 24 | 20 | 26 | 20 | 67 | ||||
| 4 | Christoph Langer | DNS | DNS | 25 | 19 | 34 | ||||
| 5 |  Thomas Winkler | 26 | DNS | 15 | ||||||
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | Pts |
| ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | |||||||
| Pos | Driver | ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | Pts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||
| 1 | Robert Sulma | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 77 | ||||
| 2 | Philippe Wils | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 77 | ||||
| 3 | Lee Mowle | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 58 | ||||
| 4 |  Javier Ripoll Sanchez | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 55 | ||||
| 5 |  Merabi Mekvabishvili | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 49 | ||||
| 6 | Nicolas Saelens | 1 | 2 | 45 | ||||||
| 7 | Ian Loggie | 2 | 1 | 45 | ||||||
| 8 | Jukka Eerola | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 45 | ||||
| 9 | Mihail Mihaylov | 16 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 39 | ||||
| 10 | Didier Glorieux | 3 | 6 | 30 | ||||||
| 11 |  Oleksander Dobik | 19 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 24 | ||||
| 12 |  Paulius Zadeika | 9 | 7 | 22 | ||||||
| 13 | Corrado Costa | 13 | 12 | Ret | 15 | 22 | ||||
| 14 | Andrea Buratti | Ret | 19 | 11 | 12 | 22 | ||||
| 15 |  Stanislav Minskiy | 13 | 11 | 17 | ||||||
| 16 | Dominique Bastien | 14 | 15 | 13 | ||||||
| 17 | Ernst Inderbitzin | 18 | DNS | 10 | Ret | 13 | ||||
| 18 | Jürgen Vollet | 12 | Ret | 11 | ||||||
| 19 | Niels Lofterød | 17 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| 20 | Camil Alexandru Perian | 11 | DNS | 9 | ||||||
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | Pts |
| ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | |||||||
| Pos | Driver | ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | Pts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||
| 1 | Seb Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 100 | ||||
| 2 | Graham King | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 74 | ||||
| 3 | Henk van Norel | 21 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 72 | ||||
| 4 | Jules Marien | 20 | 18 | 32 | ||||||
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | Pts |
| ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | |||||||
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