Spanish GT Championship

Spanish GT Championship

Category	Grand tourer sportscars
Country	Spain  Portugal
Inaugural season	1999
Tyre suppliers	Dunlop
Drivers' champion	Mikko Eskelinen
Official website	www.gtsport.es/espana-gt

The Spanish GT Championship (Campeonato de España de GT) is a Spanish auto racing series founded in 1999 and organised by the GT Sport Organización. The series runs multiple classes of grand tourer cars in events around Spain and Portugal. The series later formed the basis for the International GT Open, a European-wide series which follows a similar structure.

Format

For racing events, Spanish GT has changed very little since its inception. Each even consists of two races of equal distance, one run on Saturday and the other on Sunday. Each race has its own qualifying session to determine the grid. The races both count towards the points championship, effectively doubling the series schedule.

Initially, three classes of cars were used for the series, termed GT2, GT3, and GT4. This was soon replaced by the GTA, GTB, and GTC classes. These cars ranged from the FIA's GT2 class equivalent down to cars from one make series. The slowest class, GTC, was eliminated in 2001, only to return in 2004. A new GTS class was introduced in 2005, initially for the custom-built SEAT Toledo GT, but was adapted in 2006 to use cars from the FIA GT3 European Championship, originally without scoring points in the first year.

In the current format, the GTA class is dominated by the Ferrari F430 GT2, Porsche 911 GT3-RSR, Mosler MT900R, and the custom-built Sun Red SR21. GTS uses GT3 versions of the Ferrari F430, Porsche 911, Lamborghini Gallardo and Dodge Viper Competition Coupe. GTB is retained for one-make cup regulation versions of the F430 and 911, as well as the Marcos Mantis.

The Spanish GT Championship shares several race weekends with the European F3 Open Championship, also run by the GT Sport Organización.

Champions

An overall combined drivers championship is awarded each season, adding overall points to class points, which can mean a driver from a lower class of car can be crowned the series champion. Along with this, each individual class also awards their own champion.

Season	Overall	GT2	GT3	GT4
1999	Antonio Puig Javier Camp	Carlos Palau	Antonio Puig Javier Camp	Ángel Romero Manuel Rosado Domínguez
	Overall	GTA	GTB	GTC
2000	Miguel Ángel de Castro Balba Camino	Miguel Ángel de Castro Balba Camino	Fermín Vélez Javier Díaz	Luis C. Maurel
2001	Alberto Castello Carlos Palau	Alberto Castello Carlos Palau	Javier Díaz
2002	Miguel Ramos Pedro Chaves	Miguel Ramos Pedro Chaves	Juan Bastos
2003	Gines Vivancos	Miguel Ángel de Castro Balba Camino	Luis Pérez-Sala Manuel Cerqueda	Enrique de la Cuerda Jorge Enríquez
2004	Shaun Balfe Nigel Taylor	Miguel Ángel de Castro Angel Burgueño	Luis Pérez-Sala Manuel Cerqueda	Francesc Robert
2005	Giambattista Giannoccaro	Giambattista Giannoccaro	Pedro Bastos Miguel Cristóvão	José Luis Bermúdez de Castro
2006	Michele Bartyan	Michele Bartyan	César Rodrigo Daniel Rodrigo
2007	Peter Sundberg Domingo Romero	Peter Sundberg Domingo Romero	Óscar Fernández José Manuel Pérez-Aicart
	Overall	GTA	GTS	GTB
2008	Peter Sundberg	Peter Sundberg	Javier Díaz	Antonio Puig Alfredo Palencia
	Overall	Super GT	GTS	GT Light
2009	Lourenço Beirão da Veiga Ricardo Bravo	Lourenço Beirão da Veiga Ricardo Bravo	Antonio Castro Jesús Diez Villarroel	Ben Clucas Francisco Lorena
2010	Francisco Cruz Martins	Manuel Gião Juan Manuel López	César Campaniço João Figueiredo	Oliver Campos Kosta Kanaroglou
2011	Manuel Gião	Manuel Gião	César Campaniço João Figueiredo	Miguel Toril Pol Rosell
2012	Mikko Eskelinen	Mikko Eskelinen	Rafael Unzurrunzaga	Francesc Gutiérrez Luis Villalba
	Overall	Super GT	GTS	Gentlemen
2013	Isaac Tutumlu Dimitris Deverikos	Isaac Tutumlu Dimitris Deverikos	not attributed	Alexander Talkanitsa Sr.

References

External links

• Official website