Barcelona 24 hour race

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Barcelona 24 hour race
Vehicle type GT3 and touring cars
Country or region Spain
Current name 24H Barcelona
Official website 24hoursbarcelona.com

The 24-hour race of Barcelona is a motorsport event on the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain for sports cars and as part of the 24h-series . The length of one lap is 4.655 km.

Classification

The vehicle field is divided into four classes, which in turn are subdivided into sub-classes according to their cubic capacity:
Gasoline vehicles:

  • Class A1: up to 1.6 L displacement
  • Class A2: from 1.6 L to 2.0 L displacement or up to 1.6 L with turbo
  • Class A3T: from 1.6 L to 2.0 L with turbo
  • Class A4: from 2.0 L to 3.0 L displacement
  • Class A5: from 3.0 L to 3.5 L displacement

Diesel vehicles :

  • Class D1: up to 2.0 L displacement
  • Class D2: from 2.0 L to 3.0 L displacement

GT vehicles :

  • Class 996: Porsche 996 Cup
  • Class 997: Porsche 997 Cup (2007 to 2013 & Cup S)
  • Class A6: GT3 vehicles

Special vehicles :

  • Class SP2: Cars that don't fit into any other class
  • Class SP3: GT4 vehicles
  • Class SP4: electric and hybrid vehicles

Since there is a balance of performance in this race, each vehicle has a different minimum weight and a different maximum amount of fuel per pit stop.

Live broadcast

The motorsport television channel MotorsTV (only available through certain cable providers) will broadcast parts of the race in German.

Dates of the race

  • 24./25. September 2011
  • 8/9 September 2012
  • 7th / 8th September 2013

Overall winner

year team Overall winner vehicle distance
2011 GermanyGermany Schubert Motorsport SwedenSweden Edward Sandström Michael Outzen Peter Posavac Lars Stugemo
DenmarkDenmark
GermanyGermany
SwedenSweden
BMW Z4 GT3 3114 km
2012 GermanyGermany Lapidus Racing United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tim Mullen Phil Quaife Klaas Hummel Adam Christodoulou
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
NetherlandsNetherlands
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
McLaren MP4-12 GT3 2979 km
2013 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Hofor Racing GermanyGermany Kenneth Heyer Michael Kroll Roland Eggimann Christiaan Frankenhout
SwitzerlandSwitzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerland
NetherlandsNetherlands
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
2014 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Scuderia Praha Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jiri Písarík Jaromir Jirík Matteo Malucelli Peter Kox
Czech RepublicCzech Republic
ItalyItaly
NetherlandsNetherlands
Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 4655 km
2015 GermanyGermany HB Racing GermanyGermany Bernd Schneider Carsten Tilkee Harald Proczyk Sean Johnston
GermanyGermany
AustriaAustria
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
2016 GermanyGermany Precote Herberth Motorsport GermanyGermany Ralf Bohn Robert Renauer Alfred Renauer Daniel Allemann
GermanyGermany
GermanyGermany
GermanyGermany
Porsche 911 GT3 R (type 991)

Individual evidence

  1. Information about the racetrack. Archived from the original on July 6, 2013 ; accessed on June 27, 2013 (English).
  2. Regulations 2013. (PDF; 2.6 MB) Archived from the original on December 23, 2016 ; accessed on June 28, 2013 .
  3. Live broadcast by MotorsTV. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013 ; accessed on June 27, 2013 (English).
  4. Race report 2011. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013 ; Retrieved June 27, 2013 .
  5. Results 2012. (PDF; 130 kB) Archived from the original on November 15, 2012 ; Retrieved June 27, 2013 .