International GT Open

International GT Open
Vehicle type	Gran Turismo
Country or region	Europe
Current name	International GT Open
First season	2006
tires	Dunlop
Official website	www.gtopen.net

MC Motorsport Lamborghini Gallardo, before the race at Brands Hatch 2007

The International GT Open is a European Gran Turismo racing series.

The racing series

This GT racing series was founded in 2006 by the organizers of the Spanish GT Championship, which also served as the basis for the regulations. In the first year, the race weekends were held like in Spain. On Saturday and Sunday there was a race with a distance of 200 km. In 2007 the regulations were revised and the race on Sunday was shortened to 150 km. Some of the races are part of the World Touring Car Championship .

The GTA, GTS and GTB classes were advertised until 2008. The GTA class corresponded to the G2 class of the FIA GT championship , which, compared to the GT2, also allows vehicles that are not homologated . In this class, mainly Ferrari F430 GTC and Porsche 911 GT3 RSR are used. In the GTS class, racing cars were allowed to start that were driven in various brand formulas, such as the Porsche Cups or the Ferrari Challenge. The GTB class was open to cars in the G3 category , which, similar to the G2, also allows non-homologated racing cars compared to the cars from the FIA GT3 European Championship .

Since 2009 there has only been the Super GT and GTS classes. The former two categories GTB and GTS have been merged. The aerodynamically less modified brand formula vehicles are now only taking part in the championship occasionally. The Super GT, on the other hand, is unchanged from the former GTA.

The overall and class winners

Driver ranking

year	Overall victory	GTA class	GTS class	GTB class
2006	Michele Bartyan	Michele Bartyan	Stefano Zonca Andrea Belicchi	Fabrizio Gini
2007	Richard Lietz Joël Camathias	Andrea Montermini Michele Maceratesi	Riccardo Romagnoli	Gianni Giudici
2008	Andrea Montermini Michele Maceratesi	Andrea Montermini Michele Maceratesi	Marco Cioci Andrea Pellizzato	no longer extended
year	Overall victory	Super GT	GTS class
2009	Joël Camathias Marcel Fässler	Joël Camathias Marcel Fässler	Philipp Peter Michal Broniszewski
2010	Pierre Kaffer Álvaro Barba López	Pierre Kaffer Álvaro Barba López	Marco Frezza
2011	Soheil Ayari	Soheil Ayari	Lorenzo Bontempelli Stefano Gattuso
2012	Federico Leo Gianmaria Bruni	Federico Leo Gianmaria Bruni	Daniel Zampieri Michael Dalle Stelle

Team ranking

year	Teams' Cup
2007	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree
2008	Scuderia Playteam SaraFree
	Super GT	GTS
2009	Autorlando Sport	Villois Racing
2010	AF Corse	Kessel Racing
2011	JMB Racing	Kessel Racing
2012	AF Corse	Kessel Racing

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