International GT Open

International GT Open

Category	Grand tourer sportscars
Country	International
Inaugural season	2006
Drivers	63 (2013)
Teams	20 (2013)
Tyre suppliers	Michelin[1]
Drivers' champion	Thomas Biagi Fabrizio Crestani
Teams' champion	BMW Team Teo Martín
Official website	www.gtopen.net/
Current season

The International GT Open is a grand tourer-style sports car racing series founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It is a spin-off of the Spanish GT Championship, and uses a similar format, except its races are held internationally.

Format

The series consists of events in various European countries which feature two races over a weekend. In its first year, the races had an identical format to the Spanish GT Championship, with two 200 km races, the first held on Saturday and the second the following Sunday. Three of the six rounds were joint events for the Open and the Spanish GT Championship.

In 2007, the first race, known as Pro-Am, covers approximately 200 km distance, while the second race is 150 km and known as GT Open. The only exception is the Open GT Barcelona, which is a single 300 km race. In early seasons, a few races have been a part of the World Touring Car Championship support package.

Regulations

Each race consists of a field of grand touring-style cars broken into different classes based on power and weight. For 2006, two classes were used, known as GTA and GTB. GTA is equivalent to the GT2 class used in the FIA GT Championship, but it also allows non-homologated cars provide they obey the FIA GT2 technical regulations. Most of the field is made up of Ferrari F430 GTs and Porsche 911 GT3-RSRs. Non-homologated cars like the Mosler MT900R and the SEAT Cupra GT are also competitive.

The GTB class consists of cars usually from a manufacturer's one-make cup series, like the Ferrari F430 Challenge, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, and the Marcos Mantis. A GTS class was created to house the FIA GT3 class, consisting mainly of Dodge Viper Competition Coupes and Lamborghini Gallardo GT3s. Ferrari 458 still remain the unbeatable car of the last four years: 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Champions

Current categories

Overall

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2006	Michele Bartyan	Playteam SaraFree	D	3	3	5	86	Race 11 of 11	4
2007	Joël Camathias Richard Lietz	Autorlando	D	3	3	6	158	Race 15 of 15	4
2008	Michele Maceratesi Andrea Montermini	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree	D	7	5	8	177	Race 16 of 16	8
2009	Joël Camathias Marcel Fässler	Trottet Racing	D	3	6	9	233	Race 16 of 16	13
2010	Álvaro Barba Pierre Kaffer	AF Corse	D	9	4	9	198	Race 16 of 16	5
2011	Soheil Ayari	JMB Racing	D	0	4	8	199	Race 16 of 16	22
2012	Gianmaria Bruni Federico Leo	AF Corse	D	3	3	7	233	Race 16 of 16	3
2013	Andrea Montermini	Scuderia Villorba Corse	D	5	6	14	231	Race 14 of 16	54
2014	Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	SMP Racing Russian Bears	D	4	3	10	212	Race 16 of 16	10
2015	Álvaro Parente Miguel Ramos	Teo Martín Motorsport	M	6	3	11	212	Race 13 of 14	33
2016	Thomas Biagi Fabrizio Crestani	Orange 1 Team Lazarus	M	3	3	9	183	Race 12 of 14	51

GT3 PROAM

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2015	Álvaro Parente Miguel Ramos	Teo Martín Motorsport	M	6	3	11	94	Race 12 of 14	20
2016	Thomas Biagi Fabrizio Crestani	Orange 1 Team Lazarus	M	3	1	8	78	Race 12 of 14	26

GT3 AM

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2015	Claudio Sdanewitsch	AF Corse	M	2	5	12	55	Race 10 of 14	7
2016	António Coimbra Luís Silva	Sports & You	M	3	8	12	55	Race 12 of 14	19

Defunct categories

GTA

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2006	Michele Bartyan	Playteam SaraFree	D	3	3	5	86	Race 11 of 11	4
2007	Michele Maceratesi Andrea Montermini	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree	D	2	3	5	65	Race 15 of 15	3
2008	Michele Maceratesi Andrea Montermini	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree	D	6	5	8	77	Race 16 of 16	9

GTB

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2006	Fabrizio Gini	Scuderia Giudici	D	0	1	2	no data
2007	Gianni Giudici	Scuderia Giudici	D	1	1	9	no data

GTS

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2006	Andrea Belicchi Stefano Zonca	Racing Box	D	5	4	8	no data
2007	Riccardo Romagnoli	La Torre	D	3	3	5	no data
2008	Marco Cioci Andrea Pellizzato	Twentytwo	D	7	6	6	71	Race 14 of 16	20
2009	Michał Broniszewski Philipp Peter	Kessel Racing	D	8	6	12	107	Race 14 of 16	27
2010	Marco Frezza	Kessel Racing	D	1	5	8	86	Race 16 of 16	2
2011	Lorenzo Bontempelli Stefano Gattuso	Kessel Racing	D	6	7	12	116	Race 15 of 16	13
2012	Michael Dalle Stelle Daniel Zampieri	Kessel Racing	D	5	3	10	88	Race 16 of 16	3
2013	Giorgio Pantano	Bhai Tech Racing	D	0	3	5	56	Race 16 of 16	0
2014	Giorgio Roda	AF Corse	D	0	2	7	86	Race 15 of 16	9

Super GT

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2009	Joël Camathias Marcel Fässler	Trottet Racing	D	3	6	9	99	Race 16 of 16	5
2010	Álvaro Barba Pierre Kaffer	AF Corse	D	9	4	9	90	Race 16 of 16	9
2011	Soheil Ayari	JMB Racing	D	0	4	9	88	Race 16 of 16	9
2012	Gianmaria Bruni Federico Leo	AF Corse	D	3	3	7	85	Race 16 of 16	1
2013	Andrea Montermini	Scuderia Villorba Corse	D	5	6	14	116	Race 14 of 16	22
2014	Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	SMP Racing Russian Bears	D	4	3	10	104	Race 16 of 16	5

Gentleman’s Cup

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2013	Alexander Talkanitsa, Sr.	AT Racing	D	0	6	13	114	Race 14 of 16	22
2014	Claudio Sdanewitsch	AF Corse	D	0	5	15	128	Race 15 of 16	10

GT Open Cup

Season	Drivers	Team	Tyre	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Clinched	Margin
2015	James Abbott	Radical Works	M	0	0	0	10	Race 6 of 14	0

Teams

Year	Teams' Cup
2007	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree
2008	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree
	Super GT	GTS
2009	Autorlando Sport	Villois Racing
2010	AF Corse	Kessel Racing
2011	JMB Racing	Kessel Racing
2012	AF Corse	Kessel Racing
2013	V8 Racing	Bhai Tech Racing
2014	V8 Racing	AF Corse
	Teams' Championship
2015	AF Corse
2016	BMW Team Teo Martín

References

1. "Michelin becomes the new tire supplier of the Euroformula Open". automobilsport.com. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.

External links

• International GT Open Official website