2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge

2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge
2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge
Seasons
	← none 2017 →

The 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the first season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season featured three rounds — after the cancellation of the 6 Hours of the Americas - starting with Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 7 February and the season concluded with the Sepang 12 Hours on 10 December.^[1]

Calendar

On 29 January it was announced that the 6 Hours of the Americas would be cancelled with the official reason a lack of entrants.^[2] The test days of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup were only four days after the event, so the European teams would be cutting it close for both events. Instead, the organizers postponed the race for a year, but there were no plans to run the race.

Round	Event	Circuit	Date	Report
1	Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour	Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia	7 February	Report
2	Total 24 Hours of Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium	30–31 July	Report
3	Sepang 12 Hours	Sepang International Circuit, Sepang, Malaysia	10 December	Report
Source:^[3]

Also part of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup

Entry list

Intercontinental GT Challenge entries

Manufacturer

Team

Car

Drivers

Class

Rounds

Audi

Audi Sport Team WRT

R8 LMS

1

Will Stevens^[4]

P

2

Dries Vanthoor^[4]

Frédéric Vervisch^[4]

28

Nico Müller^[4]

P

2

René Rast^[4]

Laurens Vanthoor^[4]

	Phoenix Racing^{[N 1]}
	Audi Sport Team Phoenix^{[N 1]}

2

Alex Davison^[5]

PA

1

Laurens Vanthoor^[5]

Markus Winkelhock

Markus Winkelhock^[5]

6

P

2

Christopher Mies^[4]

Frank Stippler^[4]

15

Robin Frijns^[6]

P

3

Christopher Haase^[6]

Laurens Vanthoor^[6]

16

Pierre Kaffer^[6]

P

3

René Rast^[6]

Markus Winkelhock^[6]

Melbourne Performance Centre

74

Christopher Haase^[5]

PA

1

Marco Mapelli^[5]

Christopher Mies^[5]

75

Steve McLaughlan^[5]

PA

1

René Rast^[5]

Garth Tander^[5]

Bentley

Bentley Team M-Sport

Continental GT3

7

Vincent Abril^[4]

P

2

Steven Kane^[4]

Guy Smith^[4]

8

Wolfgang Reip^[4]

P

2

Andy Soucek^[4]

Maxime Soulet^[4]

10

Matt Bell^[5]

PA

1

Steven Kane^[5]

Guy Smith^[5]

31

David Russell^[5]

PA

1

Andy Soucek^[5]

Maxime Soulet^[5]

McLaren

K-PAX Racing

650S GT3

9

Shane van Gisbergen^[6]

P

3

Côme Ledogar^[6]

Álvaro Parente^[6]

McElrea Racing

11

Matt Campbell^[5]

Am

1

Warren Luff^[5]

Tim Slade^[5]

Tony Walls^[5]

Keltic Racing

37

Craig Baird^[5]

Am

1

Klark Quinn^[5]

Tony Quinn^[5]

Garage 59

58

Rob Bell^[4]

P

2

Shane van Gisbergen^[4]

Côme Ledogar^[4]

59

Alex Fontana^[4]

P

2

Struan Moore^[4]

Andrew Watson^[4]

60

Pipo Derani^[4]

P

2

Bruno Senna^[4]

Duncan Tappy^[4]

Tekno Autosports

59

Shane van Gisbergen^[5]

PA

1

Álvaro Parente^[5]

Jonathon Webb^[5]

60

Rob Bell^[5]

PA

1

Will Davison^[5]

Andrew Watson^[5]

Mercedes-Benz

AMG - Team Black Falcon

AMG GT3

00

Yelmer Buurman^[4]

P

2

Maro Engel^[4]

Bernd Schneider^[4]

Mishumotors

SLS AMG GT3

33

Alex Kapadia^[5]

PA

1

Mirco Schultis^[5]

Patrick Simon^[5]

Renger van der Zande^[5]

Erebus Motorsport

36

Nico Bastian^[5]

PA

1

Thomas Jäger^[5]

David Reynolds^[5]

63

Austin Cindric^[5]

PA

1

Maro Engel^[5]

Bernd Schneider^[5]

AMG - Team HTP Motorsport

AMG GT3

84

Dominik Baumann^[4]

P

2

Maximilian Buhk^[4]

Jazeman Jaafar^[4]

86

Maximilian Götz^[4]

P

2

Thomas Jäger^[4]

Gary Paffett^[4]

AMG - Team AKKA ASP

88

Felix Rosenqvist^[4]

P

2

Tristan Vautier^[4]

Renger van der Zande^[4]

Icon	Class
P	Pro Cup
PA	Pro-Am Cup
Am	Am Cup

Am Drivers entries

It is unknown which drivers competed for the Am Drivers' championship at Round 1 at Bathurst, besides those who scored points. No drivers entered for the Am Drivers' championship at Round 3 at Sepang.

Manufacturer	Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Aston Martin	Oman Racing Team	V12 Vantage GT3	44	Jonathan Adam^[7]	2
				Ahmad Al Harthy^[7]
				Devon Modell^[7]
				Darren Turner^[7]
Audi	Saintéloc Racing	R8 LMS	25	Marco Bonanomi^[7]	2
				Frédéric Bouvy^[7]
				Christian Kelders^[7]
				Marc Rostan^[7]
		R8 LMS ultra	27	Michael Blanchemain^[7]	2
				Jean-Paul Buffin^[7]
				Valentin Hasse-Clot^[7]
				Gilles Lallemant^[7]
	ISR	R8 LMS	74	Philippe Giauque^[7]	2
				Henry Hassid^[7]
				Nicolas Lapierre^[7]
				Franck Perera^[7]
	Melbourne Performance Centre		75	Steve McLaughlan	1
				René Rast
				Garth Tander
	International Motorsport	R8 LMS ultra	82	Rick Armstrong	1
				Andrew Bagnall
				Matt Halliday
Bentley	Team Parker Racing	Continental GT3	24	Ian Loggie^[7]	2
				Callum MacLeod^[7]
				Andy Meyrick^[7]
				Tom Onslow-Cole^[7]
			30	Chris Harris^[7]	2
				David Perel^[7]
				Derek Pierce^[7]
				Carl Rosenblad^[7]
BMW	Boutsen Ginion	M6 GT3	12	Julien Darras^[7]	2
				Olivier Grotz^[7]
				Karim Ojjeh^[7]
				Arno Santamato^[7]
Ferrari	Kessel Racing	488 GT3	11	Alessandro Bonacini^[7]	2
				Michał Broniszewski^[7]
				Giacomo Piccini^[7]
				Andrea Rizzoli^[7]
	Classic & Modern Racing	458 Italia GT3	41	Romain Brandela^[7]	2
				Timothé Buret^[7]
				Bernard Delhez^[7]
				Mickaël Petit^[7]
			42	Sylvain Debs^[7]	2
				David Loger^[7]
				Eric Mouez^[7]
				Thomas Nicolle^[7]
	Kaspersky Motorsport^{[N 2]} AF Corse^{[N 3]} AT Racing^{[N 4]}		49	Rui Águas^[7]	2
				Stéphane Lémeret^[7]
				Alexander Moiseev^[7]
				Davide Rizzo^[7]
		488 GT3	51	Matteo Cressoni^[7]	2
				Francisco Guedes^[7]
				Peter Mann^[7]
				Rino Mastronardi^[7]
			52	Duncan Cameron^[7]	2
				Matt Griffin^[7]
				Riccardo Ragazzi^[7]
				Andrew Scott^[7]
			53	Olivier Beretta^[7]	2
				Lorenzo Bontempelli^[7]
				Giancarlo Fisichella^[7]
				Motoaki Ishikawa^[7]
			55	Francesco Castellacci^[7]	2
				Marco Cioci^[7]
				Thomas Flohr^[7]
				Piergiuseppe Perazzini^[7]
	Rinaldi Racing		333	Pierre Ehret^[7]	2
				Alexander Mattschull^[7]
				Rinat Salikhov^[7]
				Marco Seefried^[7]
Lamborghini	Lago Racing	Gallardo R-EX	32	Steve Owen	1
				Luke Youlden
				Roger Lago^[7]
			132	Roger Lago^[7]	2
				Steve Owen^[7]
				David Russell^[7]
				Jonathon Webb^[7]
	GRT Grasser Racing Team	Huracán GT3	63	Diego Alessi^[7]	2
				Dennis Andersen^[7]
				Anders Fjordbach^[7]
				Nicolas Pohler^[7]
	ARC Bratislava		69	Miro Konôpka^[7]	2
				Andrzej Lewandowski^[7]
				Zdeno Mikuláško^[7]
				Teodor Myszkowski^[7]
	Barwell Motorsport		78	Marco Attard^[7]	2
				Tom Kimber-Smith^[7]
				Leo Machitski^[7]
				Marco Mapelli^[7]
			666	Oliver Gavin^[7]	2
				Phil Keen^[7]
				Jon Minshaw^[7]
				Joe Osborne^[7]
	Attempto Racing		100	Louis Machiels^[7]	2
				Jeroen Mul^[7]
				Max van Splunteren^[7]
				Giovanni Venturini^[7]
Mercedes-Benz	Black Falcon	AMG GT3	56	Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al Faisal^[7]	2
				Daniel Juncadella^[7]
				Oliver Morley^[7]
				Miguel Toril^[7]
	AKKA ASP		89	Laurent Cazenave^[7]	2
				Michael Lyons^[7]
				Morgan Moullin-Traffort^[7]
				Daniele Perfetti^[7]
Porsche	IMSA Performance	911 GT3 R	76	Thierry Cornac^[7]	2
				Raymond Narac^[7]
				Maxime Jousse^[7]
				Patrick Pilet^[7]
	Attempto Racing		77	Nicolas Armindo^[7]	2
				Kévin Estre^[7]
				Jürgen Häring^[7]
				Clément Mateu^[7]