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Latest revision as of 11:38, 16 December 2025
Thirteenth season of the GT World Challenge Europe
The 2026 GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS is a planned motor racing championship for GT3 cars, marking the 13th edition of the GT World Challenge Europe. Organised by the SRO Motorsports Group, it will form the European part of the broader GT World Challenge, which will also include GT World Challenge America, GT World Challenge Australia and GT World Challenge Asia.
The championship will split into the Endurance Cup and the Sprint Cup, each with its respective titles, alongside the overall GT World Challenge Europe championship. The season will take place over ten rounds at various European circuits. The annual season prologue, which acts as the championship’s pre-season testing, is scheduled to take place between 7 and 8 April 2026, with testing for the 24 Hours of Spa occurring between 19 and 20 May 2026. Racing is planned to commence in April and conclude in October.
All Sprint Cup rounds consist of two one-hour races, totalling 15 races throughout the season, alongside the single 3-hour, 6-hour, or 24-hour races in Endurance Cup rounds.[1][2]
2026 is scheduled to feature a largely unchanged calendar. With the only significant alterations being the return of the Algarve International Circuit as the season finale, marking its first appearance since 2015, and Circuit Zandvoort being moved from May to September.[3]
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For the 2026 season, the former Porsche marque and overall winners of the previous season’s Endurance Cup, Rutronik Racing, will make the switch to Lamborghini, aiming to field the new Lamborghini Temerario GT3 in the whole season Pro class with a line-up of factory drivers.[5] In their place, Boutsen VDS will make two full-season Porsche entries after splitting from Mercedes-AMG, one of which is confirmed to have Alessio Picariello at the helm.[4]
