The 2015 GT Sports Club is the first season of the SRO Group's GT Sports Club, an auto racing series for grand tourer cars. The GT Sports Club is a championship for Bronze and Iron drivers only. Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze indicate how professional a driver is. The SRO introduced the new "Iron" categorisation within the Bronze category, for drivers over the age of 60.[1] All drivers must participate with GT3-spec cars, RACB G3 cars or GTE-spec cars. The series maiden race weekend was from 17 to 19 April during the Espíritu de Montjuïc event at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.[2] Max Bianchi won the first overall championship and Martin Lanting won the Iron Cup after the last race of the championship at Misano.[3]

Calendar

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Event Circuit Date Supporting
1   Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain 19 April Espíritu de Montjuïc
2   Paul Ricard Circuit, Le Castellet, France 20 June Blancpain Endurance Series
3   Algarve International Circuit, Algarve, Portugal 6 September Blancpain Sprint Series
4   Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano, Italy 4 October
Source: [4]

Entry list

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Team Car No. Driver Class Rounds
  SRO Race Centre Aston Martin DBRS9 GT3 6   Stéphane Ratel 1–2
7   Michel Mhitarian 2
  Scuderia Villorba Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 8   Cédric Mezard All
  AKKA ASP Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 9   Gabriel Balthazard Iron 2 (QR)
  Jean-Luc Beaubelique 2 (MR)
10   Maurice Ricci 2
  WRT Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra 12   Jean-Michel Baert All
  TDS Racing BMW Z4 GT3 21   Claude-Yves Gosselin 2
  Kessel Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 23   Max Bianchi All
Ferrari 458 Challenge 38   Wong Chong Yau Runme CC 1
Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 111   Stephen Earle Iron 3
  Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 24   Naomi Schiff 1
  Pro GT by Almeras Porsche 997 GT3-R 34   Roland Berville 2
  Krypton Motorsport Porsche 997 GT3-R 35   Stefano Pezzucchi 1–2
  Saintéloc Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra 36   Marc Sourd Iron 2
37   Michael Blanchemain 2
  Sports & You Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 39   Natalia Freidina 3
  AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 42   Patrick Van Glabeke All
Ferrari 458 Italia GTE 48   Martin Lanting Iron All
51   Christoph Ulrich 4
Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 52   Mario Cordoni All
53   Louis-Philippe Soenen Iron All
54   Michael Luzich Iron All
  Attempto Racing McLaren 650S GT3 55   Natalia Freidina 2
Porsche 997 GT3-R 56   Jürgen Häring 2
  HTP Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 57   Wim de Pundert 2–4
  Kox Racing McLaren 650S GT3 76   Nico Pronk 2
  NSC Motorsports Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 95   Thierry Verstraete 1–3
  United Autosports Audi R8 LMS ultra 99   Phil Burgan Iron 4
Icon Class
Iron Iron Cup
CC Cup Challenge

Race results

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Event Circuit Pole position Qualifying Race Winner Championship Race Winner
1   Catalunya   No. 35 Krypton Motorsport   No. 35 Krypton Motorsport   No. 23 Kessel Racing
  Stefano Pezzucchi   Stefano Pezzucchi   Max Bianchi
2   Paul Ricard   No. 35 Krypton Motorsport   No. 35 Krypton Motorsport   No. 35 Krypton Motorsport
  Stefano Pezzucchi   Stefano Pezzucchi   Stefano Pezzucchi
3   Algarve   No. 52 AF Corse   No. 52 AF Corse   No. 52 AF Corse
  Mario Cordoni   Mario Cordoni   Mario Cordoni
4   Misano   No. 52 AF Corse   No. 52 AF Corse   No. 52 AF Corse
  Mario Cordoni   Mario Cordoni   Mario Cordoni

Championship standings

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Scoring system

Championship points were awarded for the first six positions in each Qualifying Race and for the first ten positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning driver's race distance in order to be classified and earn points.

Qualifying Race points
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th 
Points 8 6 4 3 2 1
Championship Race points
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1

Drivers' Championships

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Overall

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Pos. Driver Team CAT
 
LEC
 
ALG
 
MIS
 
Total
QR CR QR CR QR CR QR CR
1   Max Bianchi   Kessel Racing 3 1 12 4 3 2 2 2 87
2   Cédric Mezard   Scuderia Villorba Corse 6 2 2 2 4 3 4 3 79
3   Mario Cordoni   AF Corse 2 12 Ret 8 1 1 1 1 76
4   Martin Lanting   AF Corse 4 11 4 3 2 4 8 6 47
5   Stefano Pezzucchi   Krypton Motorsport 1 Ret 1 1 41
6   Patrick Van Glabeke   AF Corse 5 3 6 9 8 7 3 8 34
7   Jean-Michel Baert   WRT Racing 12 6 9 Ret 6 6 6 4 30
8   Louis-Philippe Soenen   AF Corse 10 8 13 13 10 8 5 5 20
9   Thierry Verstraete   NSC Motorsports 8 4 14 18 7 9 14
10   Maurice Ricci   AKKA ASP 5 5 12
10   Stephen Earle   Kessel Racing 5 5 12
11   Naomi Schiff   Reiter Engineering 7 5 10
11   Roland Berville   Pro GT by Almeras 3 7 10
12   Jürgen Häring   Attempto Racing 7 6 8
13   Michael Luzich   AF Corse 9 7 18 19 9 11 11 10 7
14   Phil Burgan   United Autosports 9 7 6
15   Wim de Pundert   HTP Motorsport 16 17 Ret 12 10 9 2
15   Stéphane Ratel   SRO Race Centre 11 9 17 20 2
16   Natalia Freidina   Attempto Racing 19 15 1
  Sports & You Ret 10
16   Wong Chong Yau Runme   Kessel Racing 13 10 1
16   Jean-Luc Beaubelique   AKKA ASP 10 1
  Nico Pronk   Kox Racing 21 11 0
  Claude-Yves Gosselin   TDS Racing 8 12 0
  Marc Sourd   Saintéloc Racing 10 14 0
  Michel Mhitarian   SRO Race Centre 15 16 0
  Michael Blanchemain   Saintéloc Racing 20 Ret 0
  Christoph Ulrich   AF Corse 7 Ret 0
  Gabriel Balthazard   AKKA ASP 11 0
Key
Colour Result
Gold Race winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
White Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
Blank Did not participate

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

Iron Cup

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Pos. Driver Team CAT
 
LEC
 
ALG
 
MIS
 
Total
QR CR QR CR QR CR QR CR
1   Martin Lanting   AF Corse 4 11 4 3 2 4 8 6 113
2   Louis-Philippe Soenen   AF Corse 10 8 13 13 10 8 5 5 96
3   Michael Luzich   AF Corse 9 7 18 19 9 11 11 10 74
4   Stephen Earle   Kessel Racing 5 5 24
5   Marc Sourd   Saintéloc Racing 10 14 21
6   Phil Burgan   United Autosports 9 7 19
7   Gabriel Balthazard   AKKA ASP 11 4

Cup Challenge

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Pos. Driver Team CAT
 
LEC
 
ALG
 
MIS
 
Total
QR CR QR CR QR CR QR CR
1   Wong Chong Yau Runme   Kessel Racing 13 10 33

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "SRO Motorsports Group introduces GT Sports Club, a new Series exclusively for Bronze drivers". gtsportsclub.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  2. ^ "Espíritu de Montjuïc". gtsportsclub.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  3. ^ "Max Bianchi and Martin Lanting first GT Sports Club Champions". gtsportsclub.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  4. ^ "GT Sports Club Calendar 2015". gtsportsclub.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
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