GTWC Europe is the premier GT3 championship, featuring elite teams and manufacturers across iconic circuits. It delivers intense sprint and endurance racing at the highest level. Pit Debrief covers all the latest GTWC Europe news and action.
Raffaele Marciello set the early benchmark as the GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Endurance Cup field began its competitive part of the Nürburgring weekend with Free Practice 1 (FP1) on Saturday morning. The #98 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 EVO led a closely contested 90-minute session, with Marciello’s 1:54.855 proving enough to keep Arthur Rougier’s…
The GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Endurance Cup field returned to action at the Nürburgring on Friday, with Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed’s Fabian Schiller and series debutant Constantin Dressler setting the benchmark across the day’s two testing sessions. More than 50 cars took part in the two-hour Paid Test, which ran in wet conditions, before the…
The GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe powered by AWS Endurance Cup returns from its summer break this weekend as a 55-car field prepares to tackle the Nürburgring. The German circuit hosts the fourth Endurance Cup round of the 2026 season from 28–30 August, marking the championship’s first long-distance event since the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of…
Dylan Pereira’s Magny-Cours weekend was always going to be measured by more than results. The Luxembourgish driver attempted one of the most demanding schedules of his season, splitting his weekend between the NLS Nürburgring Langstreckenserie and the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup (GTWC). He travelled between the Nürburgring and Magny-Cours by road, with only…
The 2026 GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe powered by AWS season continued at Magny-Cours with the third Sprint Cup event of the campaign and the sixth round of the combined championship. Victories for Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella in Race 1 and Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus in Race 2 reshaped several Overall and Sprint…
GTWC Europe powered by AWS will conclude its 2026 Endurance Cup season on the evening of Saturday 17 October after SRO Motorsports Group revised the Portimão event timetable, to avoid a clash with the World Endurance Championship (WEC) 6 Hours of Barcelona. Organisers originally planned to hold the three-hour race on Sunday 18 October. However,…
Bastian Buus and Ricardo Feller claimed victory in Race 2 at the GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Sprint Cup weekend at Magny-Cours after an exceptionally quick pit stop propelled the #80 Lionspeed GP Porsche from fourth place into the lead. Buus crossed the line 2.120 seconds ahead of Matisse Lismont, who secured the Silver Cup…
Nicki Thiim secured pole position for the second GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Sprint Cup race at Magny-Cours after the stewards cancelled Kelvin van der Linde’s times he set during Qualifying 2. The Southafrican had comfortably led the session in the #32 Team WRT BMW, but a technical infringement promoted the #7 Comtoyou Racing Aston…
Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella delivered Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing its first overall GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe victory in Race 1 at Magny-Cours. The No. 3 Mercedes-AMG controlled the race from pole position before Juncadella resisted late pressure from Arthur Leclerc to win by 2.597 seconds. Thomas Neubauer and Leclerc charged from ninth on…
Jules Gounon secured pole position for the opening GT World Challenge (GTWC) Europe Sprint Cup race at Magny-Cours after setting the benchmark during Qualifying 1. The Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing driver recorded a 1:36.023 in the first half of the split qualifying session. Kiern Jewiss came closest to beating him during Q1B but finished 0.166…
