The GT Cup Championship is a
sports car racing series based in the
United Kingdom
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. It was founded by Marc Haynes in 2007.
The championship supported the short-lived
British LMP3 Cup
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in 2017, following the series to
Spa-Francorchamps
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where it participated alongside the field of prototypes. It will support the
2021 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
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at Brands Hatch on 1–2 May. GT Cup Championship events consist of 1 free practice session, 1 qualifying session and 2 races per day; the first being a 25-minute sprint and the second being a 50-minute endurance race with driver changes.
Classes
As of the
2021 season, GT Cup has six different classes:
GTO:
GT2,
GTE
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, modified cars;
silhouettes
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, replicas.
GT3: Homologated cars running to
Group GT3 specifications.
GTA: Lower specification, cup challenge and one-make series cars.
GTB: Early year challenge and cup cars.
GTC: Later year challenge and cup cars.
GTH: Homologated cars running to
Group GT4 specifications.
Champions
References
External links
*{{Official Website, https://www.gtcup.co.uk/
GT Cup Championship
Group GT3
GT4 (sports car class)
2007 establishments in the United Kingdom
National championships in the United Kingdom