2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge

2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge
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Shane Van Gisbergen, Álvaro Parente and Jonathon Webb won the Bathurst 12 Hour, the inaugural event of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, in a McLaren 650S GT3 run by Tekno Autosports.

The 2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge is the first season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The SRO Motorsports Group is the organiser of the series. The season features three rounds - after the cancellation of the 6 Hours of the Americas - starting with Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on February 7 and the season concludes with the Sepang 12 Hours on December 11.^[1]

Calendar

On January 29 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 are 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	11 December	Report
Source:[3]

  Also part of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup

Entry list

Manufacturer Team Car No. 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[5] 6 P 2 Christopher Mies[4] Frank Stippler[4] 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 McElrea Racing 650S GT3 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

Race results

Rnd.	Circuit	Pole Position	Pro Winners	Pro-Am Winners	Am Winners	Winning Manufacturer
1	Bathurst	No. 59 Tekno Autosports	No entries	No. 59 Tekno Autosports	No finishers	McLaren
		Shane Van Gisbergen Álvaro Parente Jonathon Webb		Shane Van Gisbergen Álvaro Parente Jonathon Webb
2	Spa-Francorchamps	No. 28 Audi Sport Team WRT	No. 88 AMG - Team AKKA ASP	No entries		Mercedes-Benz
		Nico Müller René Rast Laurens Vanthoor	Felix Rosenqvist Tristan Vautier Renger van der Zande
3	Sepang

Championship standings

Scoring system

A manufacturer only receives points for its two highest placed cars in each round.

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

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver Manufacturer BAT SPA SEP Total 1 Laurens Vanthoor Audi 3^4 2^3 33 2 Shane Van Gisbergen McLaren 1^1 9^31 27 3 Steven Kane Guy Smith Bentley 2^3 6^18 26 3 René Rast Audi 6^8 2^3 26 4 Renger van der Zande Mercedes-Benz Ret 1^2 25 4 Álvaro Parente Jonathon Webb McLaren 1^1 25 4 Felix Rosenqvist Tristan Vautier Mercedes-Benz 1^2 25 4 Andy Soucek Maxime Soulet Bentley 5^7 3^4 25 5 Thomas Jäger Mercedes-Benz 4^5 4^5 24 6 Matt Bell Bentley 2^3 18 6 Nico Müller Audi 2^3 18 7 Markus Winkelhock Audi 3^4 11^50 15 7 Alex Davison Audi 3^4 15 7 Wolfgang Reip Bentley 3^4 15 8 Nico Bastian David Reynolds Mercedes-Benz 4^5 12 8 Maximilian Götz Gary Paffett Mercedes-Benz 4^5 12 9 David Russell Bentley 5^7 10 9 Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk Jazeman Jaafar Mercedes-Benz 5^6 10 10 Steve McLaughlan Garth Tander Audi 6^8 8 10 Vincent Abril Bentley 6^18 8 10 Rob Bell McLaren 7^9 9^31 8 11 Andrew Watson McLaren 7^9 Ret 6 11 Will Davison McLaren 7^9 6 11 Maro Engel Bernd Schneider Mercedes-Benz Ret 7^20 6 11 Yelmer Buurman Mercedes-Benz 7^20 6 12 Will Stevens Dries Vanthoor Frédéric Vervisch Audi 8^29 4 13 Côme Ledogar McLaren 9^31 2 14 Pipo Derani Bruno Senna Duncan Tappy McLaren 10^40 1 Christopher Mies Audi Ret 11^50 0 Frank Stippler Audi 11^50 0 Austin Cindric Mercedes-Benz Ret 0 Craig Baird Klark Quinn Tony Quinn McLaren Ret 0 Alex Kapadia Mirco Schultis Patrick Simon Mercedes-Benz Ret 0 Christopher Haase Marco Mapelli Audi Ret 0 Matt Campbell Warren Luff Tim Slade Tony Walls McLaren Ret 0 Alex Fontana Struan Moore McLaren Ret 0 Pos. Driver Manufacturer BAT SPA SEP Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap ^1 – Classified position in race

Manufacturers' championship

Pos.	Manufacturer	Car	BAT	SPA	SEP	Total
1	Bentley	Continental GT3	2^3	3^4		51
			5^7	6^18
2	Mercedes-Benz	SLS AMG GT3/AMG GT3	4^5	1^2		49
			Ret	4^5
3	Audi	R8 LMS	3^4	2^3		45
			6^8	8^29
4	McLaren	650S GT3	1^1	9^31		34
			7^9	10^40
Pos.	Manufacturer	Car	BAT	SPA	SEP	Points

See also

• Intercontinental GT Challenge

Notes

1. Car No. 2 entered as Phoenix Racing and car No. 6 entered as Audi Sport Team Phoenix.

References

1. "Intercontinental GT Challenge launched by Stephane Ratel". autosport.com. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
2. "Intercontinental GT round at COTA to be cancelled". Motorsport.com. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
3. "SRO Motorsports Group Intercontinental GT Challenge". Stéphane Ratel Organisation. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
4. "2016 Intercontinental GT Challenge - Spa-Francorchamps Entry List" (PDF). vmail.vertouk.net. SRO Motorsports Group. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
5. "Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour to kick off inaugural Intercontinental GT Challenge". Blancpain GT Series. Stéphane Ratel Organisation. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.

External links

• Official website