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2019 Calendars: Blancpain GT Europe

The ‘mothership’ Blancpain GT series is based in Europe.

For 2019 the five Sprint rounds have been renamed Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe to match the Asian and American series.

There are three titles:

Blancpain GT Endurance, five rounds: 24 Hours of Spa, 1000km Paul Ricard, the other three rounds are 3 hours each;
Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe, five rounds: 2 x 60 minute sprint races;
Overall Blancpain GT title combining all 10 rounds into one series;

Teams can compete in the entire series or just decide to do the sprint or endurance cups.

All races are for FIA GT3 cars exclusively. The class structure is based upon driver ratings with a mix of Pro, Pro/Am and Am classes.

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2019 Calendars: Super Formula

Japan’s premier single-seater open wheel series, featuring Dallara chassis at IndyCar or Formula 2 level, mated to Super GT Toyota or Honda engines. Very quick cars.

Kamui Kobayashi, Kazuki Najajima, Artem Markelov, Harrison Newey and Lucas Auer will be competing this year.

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2019 Calendars: Autobacs Super GT

Japan’s top sports car series features two classes.

GT500 is the playground of Honda, Lexus and Nissan and drivers like Jenson Button, Heikki Kovalainen, Kazuki Nakajima, Ryo Hirokawa. In 2020 the class will share regulations with the DTM.

GT300 sees a big grid of GT3 cars and similar, from Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, Nissan, Honda, BMW, Aston Martin, McLaren.

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2019 Calendars: DTM

One of Europe’s premier series.

Audi and BMW resume battle. Mercedes AMG have pulled out, but there will be a presence of sorts from Aston Martin, which is an interesting development.

New “Class 1” rules come into effect as part of a close partnership with Super GT in Japan.

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