GT World Challenge Europe (known as the Blancpain GT Series between 2014 and 2019) is a

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series organised by SRO Motorsports Group. It features

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racing cars modified from production road cars complying with the FIA's GT3 regulations. The series is divided into two separate championships, the

GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup The GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup, officially known as Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS for sponsorship reasons, formerly the FIA GT Series, is a sports car racing series organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) w ...

and the

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup The GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, formerly for sponsorship reasons the Blancpain Endurance Series from 2011 to 2015 and Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup from 2016 to 2019, is a sports car racing series developed by Stéphane Ratel Org ...

, with five weekends each for 2022. Each race meeting focuses on Sprint Cup OR Endurance Cup exclusively.

History

Although the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup (then the Blancpain Endurance Series) has been organised since 2011, the inaugural season of the Blancpain GT Series was

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, because in that year the

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became the Blancpain Sprint Series, which is now the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup. The series was primarily sponsored by Swiss watchmaker

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. After developing their partnership,

and the SRO have decided that 2016 will see both the Sprint and Endurance Series further integrated into the Blancpain GT Series, putting the emphasis on the prestigious overall drivers' and manufacturers' titles, and causing the Sprint Series name to change from ''Blancpain Sprint Series'' to ''Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup'' and the Endurance Series name to change from ''Blancpain Endurance Series'' to ''Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup''. In 2019, SRO Group announced that their sponsorship agreement with Blancpain had come to an end, this resulted in the ''Blancpain GT Series'' being renamed the ''GT World Challenge Europe'' with the ''Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup'' and ''Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe'' being renamed the ''GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup'' and ''Sprint Cup'' respectively.

Champions

Drivers

Teams

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