Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers are currently signed to run the 2024 season.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Source: [2] | ||
| 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 |  Henri Tuomaala | Robert Sulma | |
| Ariel Levi | Ariel Levi | Alexander Tauscher | Alexander Reimann | John de Wilde | |||
| 4 | Barcelona | Mathys Jaubert | Mathys Jaubert | Mathys Jaubert | Alexander Reimann | Michael Cool | |
| Mathys Jaubert | Kas Haverkort | Alexander Reimann | Michael Cool |
| 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 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 138 |
| 2 | Alexander Tauscher | 1 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 95 |
| 3 | Sebastian Freymuth | 4 | Ret | 2 | 2 | 9 | Ret | 6 | 4 | 86 |
| 4 | Mathys Jaubert | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 66 | ||||
| 5 | Kas Haverkort | 1 | Ret | 4 | 1 | 63 | ||||
| 6 | Sacha Norden | 7 | 7 | 18 | 8 | 29 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 61 |
| 7 | Louis Rousset | 11 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 60 |
| 8 |  Marco Giltrap | 5 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 59 |
| 9 | Senna Van Soelen | Ret | 9 | 3 | Ret | 13 | 1 | 13 | Ret | 55 |
| 10 | Jan Seyffert | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 52 | ||||
| 11 | Hugo Ellis | 13 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 49 | ||
| 12 |  Horst Felix Felbermayr | 6 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 7 | Ret | 12 | 22 | 45 |
| 13 |  Robin Knutsson | 12 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 5 | Ret | DNS | DNS | 42 |
| 14 |  Pietro Armanni | 10 | 5 | Ret | 12 | 21 | 4 | 10 | Ret | 39 |
| 15 | Angus Whiteside | 9 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 36 |
| 16 | Sid Smith | 20 | 14 | 15 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 |
| 17 |  Filip Ugran | 8 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 27 | ||||
| 18 | Alberto Cerqui | 21 | 4 | 6 | Ret | 23 | ||||
| 19 | Huub van Eijndhoven | 8 | 5 | 19 | ||||||
| 20 | Josh Stanton | 14 | Ret | 12 | 15 | 28 | 5 | 23 | Ret | 19 |
| 21 | Fernando Monje | 19 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 16 |
| 22 | Oliver Gray | 15 | 9 | 14 | Ret | 11 | ||||
| 23 | Giuseppe Guirreri | 17 | Ret | 21 | Ret | 14 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 11 |
| 24 | Thomas Kangro | 25 | 16 | NC | Ret | 17 | 7 | 24 | 19 | 9 |
| 25 | Jef Machiels | 17 | Ret | 18 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 9 | ||
| 26 |  Anthony Imperato | 15 | 20 | 20 | Ret | 23 | Ret | 1 | ||
| 27 | Juriaan De Back | 23 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 27 | Ret | Ret | 16 | 1 |
| 28 | Gian Luca Tüccaroglu | 20 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| 29 | Dréke Janssen | 18 | Ret | 24 | Ret | 19 | 21 | Ret | Ret | 0 |
| – | 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 | Alexander Reimann | 16 | 22 | 23 | 12 | 25 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 174 |
| 2 | Jules Grouwels | 22 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 22 | Ret | 22 | 20 | 142 |
| 3 |  Cengiz James Oguzhan | 24 | 21 | 26 | 20 | 26 | 18 | Ret | 21 | 102 |
| 4 | Henri Tuomaala | 12 | 15 | 21 | 18 | 85 | ||||
| 5 | Christoph Langer | DNS | DNS | 25 | 19 | 32 | ||||
| 6 | Gianluca Giorgi | 24 | Ret | 16 | ||||||
| 7 |  Thomas Winkler | 26 | DNS | 13 | ||||||
| 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 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 148 |
| 2 | Philippe Wils | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 106 |
| 3 |  Javier Ripoll Sanchez | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 12 | 71 |
| 4 | Peter Hegglin | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 58 | ||||
| 5 | Mihail Mihaylov | 16 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 51 |
| 6 | Michael Cool | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||||||
| 7 |  Merabi Mekvabishvili | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 11 | Ret | 9 | Ret | 49 |
| 8 | Jukka Eerola | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 49 | ||
| 9 | Lee Mowle | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 49 | ||||
| 10 | Nicolas Saelens | 1 | 2 | 45 | ||||||
| 11 | Ian Loggie | 2 | 1 | 45 | ||||||
| 12 | Didier Glorieux | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 44 | ||||
| 13 | John de Wilde | 3 | 1 | 41 | ||||||
| 14 |  Oleksander Dobik | 19 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 37 |
| 15 | Angelo Fontana | 6 | 2 | 30 | ||||||
| 16 | Thomas Winkler | 3 | 7 | 25 | ||||||
| 17 | Andrea Buratti | Ret | 19 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 16 | 24 |
| 18 | Johannes Zelger | 4 | 6 | 23 | ||||||
| 19 |  Paulius Zadeika | 9 | 7 | 13 | 15 | 22 | ||||
| 20 | Lorenzo von Matterhorn | 7 | 6 | 19 | ||||||
| 21 |  Stanislav Minskiy | 13 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 15 | ||||
| 22 | Corrado Costa | 13 | 12 | Ret | 15 | 18 | Ret | 21 | 19 | 13 |
| 23 |  Marcelo Tomasoni | 19 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| 24 |  Antonius Wossos | 11 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
| 25 | Mark van Eldik | 14 | 9 | 10 | ||||||
| 26 | Ernst Inderbitzin | 18 | DNS | 10 | Ret | 15 | 18 | 10 | ||
| 27 | Niels Lofterød | 17 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 9 | ||
| 28 | Jürgen Vollet | 12 | Ret | Ret | 12 | Ret | DNS | 9 | ||
| 29 | Dominique Bastien | 14 | 15 | Ret | DNS | 7 | ||||
| 30 | Camil Alexandru Perian | 11 | DNS | 6 | ||||||
| 31 | Gianluca Giorgi | 18 | DNS | 1 | ||||||
| 32 | Alfred Lenferink | 20 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| 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 | Graham King | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 15 | Ret | 132 |
| 2 | Henk van Norel | 21 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 19 | 16 | Ret | DNS | 101 |
| 3 | Seb Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 100 | ||||
| 4 |  Robert Cronin | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 100 | ||||
| 5 | Jules Marien | 20 | 18 | 29 | ||||||
| 6 | Dino van der Geest | 16 | Ret | 16 | ||||||
| Pos | Driver | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | Pts |
| ALG | EST | VAL | CAT | |||||||
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