2026 Italian GT Championship Endurance Cup
The 2026 Italian GT Championship Endurance Cup will be the thirty-fifth season of the Italian GT Championship. The season will begin on 8 May at Misano World Circuit and finish on 1 November at Mugello Circuit.[1] The races are contested with GT3-spec cars, and GT Cup-spec cars in two different divisions, Division 1 for Ferrari Challenge (296) and Lamborghini Super Trofeo cars and Division 2 for Ferrari Challenge (488) and Porsche Carrera Cup cars.
Calendar
[edit]| Round | Circuit | Date | Map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Misano World Circuit, Misano Adriatico, Emilia-Romagna |
8–10 May | ||
| 2 |  Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Lombardy |
19–21 June | ||
| 3 | Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Emilia-Romagna |
4–6 September | ||
| 4 |  Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello, Mugello, Tuscany |
30 October–1 November | ||
Entry list
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Results
[edit]Bold indicates the overall winners.
GT3
[edit]| Round | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Pro winners | Pro-Am winners | Am winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli |
10 May |  No. 64 AKM Motorsport |
 No. 45 Rinaldi Racing |
 No. 3 Easy Race |
No. 26 Easy Race |
 Guy Albag Lorenzo Ferrari |
Alessandro Balzan Dylan Medler |
Luigi Coluccio Mattia Marchiante Carlo Tamburini |
Leonardo Gorini Daniel Mancinelli Massimo Perrina | |||
| 2 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza |
21 June |  No. 1 CSA Racing |
No. 63 VSR |
No. 85 Imperiale Racing |
 No. 33 Kessel Racing |
 Baptiste Moulin Arthur Rougier Sai Sanjay |
Edoardo Liberati Mattia Michelotto Ignazio Zanon |
 Murat Cuhadaroglu David Fumanelli Marco Pulcini |
Andrea Cola Lautaro De La Iglesia Phillippe Denes | |||
| 3 | Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari |
6 September | ||||
| 4 | Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello |
1 November | ||||
GT Cup
[edit]| Round | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Div. 1 Pro-Am Winners | Div. 1 Am Winners | Div. 2 Pro-Am Winners | Div. 2 Am Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli |
10 May | No. 150 Spirit of Race |
No. 150 Spirit of Race |
No. 231 Krypton by DL Racing |
No. 488 APEX Competition |
No. 545 ZRS Motorsport |
| Federico Al Rifai Edoardo Barbolini Simone Patrinicola |
Federico Al Rifai Edoardo Barbolini Simone Patrinicola |
Luigi Ferrara Francesco Galli |
Roberto Benedetti Massimiliano Lanza Danny Santi |
Francesco Bolzoni Carlo Contessi Davide Scannicchio | |||
| 2 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza |
21 June | No. 184 SF Squadra Corse |
No. 150 Spirit of Race |
No. 231 Krypton by DL Racing |
No. 433 SR&R |
No. 545 ZRS Motorsport |
| Luca Franca Matteo Roccadelli Giacomo Trebbi |
Federico Al Rifai Edoardo Barbolini Simone Patrinicola |
Luigi Ferrara Francesco Galli |
Andrea Bodellini Giacomo Riva Lyle Schofield |
Francesco Bolzoni Carlo Contessi Francesco Guidi | |||
| 3 | Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari |
6 September | |||||
| 4 | Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello |
1 November | |||||
Standings
[edit]Drivers' championships
[edit]Scoring system
[edit]| Duration | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Minutes | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 Hours | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
GT3
[edit]Overall
[edit]| Pos. | Driver | Team | MIS | MNZ | IMO | MUG | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edoardo Liberati Mattia Michelotto Ignazio Zanon |
VSR |
102 | 11 | 43 | ||
| 2 | Alessandro Balzan Dylan Medler |
Rinaldi Racing |
13 | 6 | 33 | ||
| 3 | Eliseo Donno Giacomo Pollini Luca Segù |
DL Racing |
357 | 22 | 29 | ||
| 4 | Guy Albag Lorenzo Ferrari |
AKM Motorsport |
31 | 13 | 24 | ||
| 5 |  Jan Magnussen Mathias Villadsen |
T.S.R. by Gino Motorsport |
25 | 15 | 21 | ||
| 6 |  William Alatalo Alfred Nilsson Filip Ugran |
BMW Italia Ceccato Racing |
Ret | 33 | 20 | ||
| 7 | Baptiste Moulin Arthur Rougier Sai Sanjay |
CSA Racing |
24 | 44 | 17 | ||
| 8 |  Alexander Bowen Jesse Salmenautio |
VSR |
124 | 5 | 14 | ||
| 9 | Luigi Coluccio Mattia Marchiante Carlo Tamburini |
Easy Race |
48 | Ret | 13 | ||
| 10 | Andrea Cola Lautaro De La Iglesia Phillippe Denes |
Imperiale Racing |
59 | 910 | 12 | ||
| 11 | Enzo Geraci Guido Luchetti Artem Petrov |
Oregon Team |
32 | 76 | 9 | ||
| 12 | Murat Cuhadaroglu David Fumanelli Marco Pulcini |
Kessel Racing |
2510 | 87 | 8 | ||
| 13 | Loris Spinelli |
VSR |
5 | 14 | |||
| 13 |  Hugo Cook |
VSR |
124 | 7 | |||
| 14 | Jean-Luc D'Auria Jasin Ferati Francesco Guerra |
Nova Race Events |
18 | 285 | 6 | ||
| 15 |  Axcil Jefferies Xolile Letlaka Stuart White |
Into Africa Racing by Dragon |
6 | 17 | 5 | ||
| 15 |  Rafael Durán David Perel |
Spirit of Race |
146 | 11 | 5 | ||
| 16 | Alex Denning Alessandro Girotti Jacopo Guidetti |
Imperiale Racing |
8 | Ret9 | 5 | ||
| 17 | Francesco Braschi Riccardo Ponzio Andrew Rackstraw |
Spirit of Race |
7 | 12 | 4 | ||
| 18 | Giacomo Altoè Giovanni Altoè Oscar Ryndziewicz |
Kessel Racing |
21 | 148 | 3 | ||
| 19 | Filippo Barberi Jacopo Cimenes Riccardo Leone Cirelli |
BMW Italia Ceccato Racing |
9 | 10 | 3 | ||
| Leonardo Gorini Massimo Perrina |
Easy Race |
11 | 16 | 0 | |||
| Daniel Mancinelli |
Easy Race |
11 | 0 | ||||
| Alessio Deledda Simon Gachet Luciano Morano |
CSA Racing |
13 | Ret | 0 | |||
 Felipinho Bassi Massa Angelo Fontana Niccolò Schirò |
Rossocorsa |
15 | 0 | ||||
| Rosario Messina Piergiacomo Randazzo Stéphane Tribaudini |
DL Racing |
16 | Ret | 0 | |||
| Luca Ghiotto |
Easy Race |
16 | 0 | ||||
| Marco Cassarà Sebastian Øgaard |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
17 | 30 | 0 | |||
| Rocco Mazzola |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
17 | Ret | 0 | |||
 Ibrahim Badawy Leonardo Colavita Gilles Renmans |
Double TT Racing |
33 | 18 | 0 | |||
| Robert Mau Jonathan Miller |
Huber Motorsport |
19 | 21 | 0 | |||
| Sacha Lehmann Florian Scholze |
Stratia Motorsport |
26 | 19 | 0 | |||
| Chandler Hull |
Huber Motorsport |
19 | 0 | ||||
 Colin Caresani |
Stratia Motorsport |
19 | 0 | ||||
Giuseppe Guirreri Liang Jiatong Stefano Pedani |
AKM Motorsport |
20 | 26 | 0 | |||
| Alberto Clementi Pisani Alberto Di Folco Vittorio Viglietti |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
37 | 20 | 0 | |||
 Carlos Rivas |
Huber Motorsport |
21 | 0 | ||||
| Alessandro Baccani Leonardo Caglioni Paolo Venerosi |
Ebimotors |
22 | 22 | 0 | |||
| Massimo Ciglia Jenny Sonzogni |
FAEMS Team |
23 | 24 | 0 | |||
| David McDonald Benny Simonsen Marcos Vivien |
Spirit of Race |
28 | 23 | 0 | |||
| Alessandro Tarabini |
FAEMS Team |
23 | 0 | ||||
| Rodolfo Massaro |
FAEMS Team |
24 | 0 | ||||
| Gino Forgione Michele Rugolo Willem Van der Worm |
Spirit of Race |
27 | 25 | 0 | |||
| Arno Santamato |
Stratia Motorsport |
26 | 0 | ||||
| Luca Magnoni Alessandro Marchetti Paolo Rocca |
Nova Race Events |
30 | 27 | 0 | |||
| Francesco De Luca |
Nova Race Events |
27 | 0 | ||||
| Alessandro Bracalente Jody Lambrughi Nicolò Soffiati |
Audi Sport Italia |
36 | 29 | 0 | |||
Mhedi Bouarfa Miguel Garcia |
DL Racing |
29 | Ret | 0 | |||
 Magnus Gustavsen |
DL Racing |
29 | 0 | ||||
| Paolo Rocca |
Nova Race Events |
30 | 0 | ||||
| Marius Jackson |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
30 | 0 | ||||
| Fabrizio Fontana Stefano Gai |
Spirit of Race |
31 | Ret | 0 | |||
| Samuele Buttarelli Stefano Marazzi |
Rossocorsa |
34 | Ret | 0 | |||
| Diego Locanto |
DL Racing |
Ret | 0 | ||||
Michael Fischbaum Miloš Pavlović Florian Spengler |
Auto Sport Racing |
Ret | 0 | ||||
| Andrea Frassineti Ariel Levi |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
DSQ | Ret | 0 | |||
| Alex Aka |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
DSQ | 0 | ||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | MIS | MNZ | IMO | MUG | Points |
Pro-Am
[edit]| Pos. | Driver | Team | MIS | MNZ | IMO | MUG | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrea Cola Lautaro De La Iglesia Phillippe Denes |
Imperiale Racing |
23 | 13 | 51 | ||
| 2 | Rafael Durán David Perel |
Spirit of Race |
73 | 34 | 35 | ||
| 3 | Filippo Barberi Jacopo Cimenes Riccardo Leone Cirelli |
BMW Italia Ceccato Racing |
66 | 25 | 31 | ||
| 4 | Luigi Coluccio Mattia Marchiante Carlo Tamburini |
Easy Race |
12 | Ret | 30 | ||
| 5 | Axcil Jefferies Xolile Letlaka Stuart White |
Into Africa Racing by Dragon |
34 | 57 | 30 | ||
| 6 | Francesco Braschi Riccardo Ponzio Andrew Rackstraw |
Spirit of Race |
47 | 48 | 27 | ||
| 7 | Alex Denning Alessandro Girotti Jacopo Guidetti |
Imperiale Racing |
58 | Ret2 | 20 | ||
| 8 | Jean-Luc D'Auria Jasin Ferati Francesco Guerra |
Nova Race Events |
9 | 91 | 16 | ||
| 9 | Alberto Clementi Pisani Alberto Di Folco Vittorio Viglietti |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
145 | 76 | 15 | ||
| 10 | Ibrahim Badawy Leonardo Colavita Gilles Renmans |
Double TT Racing |
129 | 69 | 9 | ||
| 11 | Giuseppe Guirreri Liang Jiatong Stefano Pedani |
AKM Motorsport |
10 | 810 | 5 | ||
| 12 | Marco Cassarà Rocco Mazzola Sebastian Øgaard |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
8 | 3 | |||
| 13 | Samuele Buttarelli Stefano Marazzi |
Rossocorsa |
1310 | Ret | 1 | ||
| Mhedi Bouarfa Miguel Garcia Magnus Gustavsen |
DL Racing |
11 | 0 | ||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | MIS | MNZ | IMO | MUG | Points |
Am
[edit]| Pos. | Driver | Team | MIS | MNZ | IMO | MUG | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murat Cuhadaroglu David Fumanelli Marco Pulcini |
Kessel Racing |
81 | 11 | 47 | ||
| 2 | Leonardo Gorini Massimo Perrina |
Easy Race |
14 | 34 | 46 | ||
| 3 | Giacomo Altoè Giovanni Altoè Oscar Ryndziewicz |
Kessel Racing |
55 | 22 | 38 | ||
| 4 | Daniel Mancinelli |
Easy Race |
14 | 27 | |||
| 5 | Robert Mau Jonathan Miller |
Huber Motorsport |
48 | 57 | 24 | ||
| 6 | Rosario Messina Piergiacomo Randazzo Stéphane Tribaudini |
DL Racing |
33 | Ret | 20 | ||
| 7 | Luca Ghiotto |
Easy Race |
34 | 19 | |||
| 8 | Alessandro Baccani Leonardo Caglioni Paolo Venerosi |
Ebimotors |
67 | 75 | 19 | ||
| 9 | Sacha Lehmann Florian Scholze |
Stratia Motorsport |
96 | 410 | 18 | ||
| 10 | Felipinho Bassi Massa Angelo Fontana Niccolò Schirò |
Rossocorsa |
210 | 16 | |||
| 11 | Alessandro Bracalente Jody Lambrughi Nicolò Soffiati |
Audi Sport Italia |
142 | 116 | 15 | ||
| 12 | Chandler Hull |
Huber Motorsport |
48 | 13 | |||
| 13 | Colin Caresani |
Stratia Motorsport |
410 | 11 | |||
| 14 | Carlos Rivas |
Huber Motorsport |
57 | 11 | |||
| 15 | Marco Cassarà Marius Jackson Sebastian Øgaard |
Tresor Attempto Racing |
123 | 8 | |||
| 16 | Arno Santamato |
Stratia Motorsport |
96 | 7 | |||
| 17 | Massimo Ciglia Jenny Sonzogni |
FAEMS Team |
7 | 8 | 7 | ||
| 18 | Gino Forgione Michele Rugolo Willem Van der Worm |
Spirit of Race |
10 | 99 | 1 | ||
| 19 | David McDonald Benny Simonsen Marcos Vivien |
Spirit of Race |
11 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 19 | Alessandro Tarabini |
FAEMS Team |
7 | 4 | |||
| 20 | Rodolfo Massaro |
FAEMS Team |
8 | 3 | |||
| 21 | Luca Magnoni Alessandro Marchetti |
Nova Race Events |
12 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 22 | Francesco De Luca |
Nova Race Events |
10 | 1 | |||
| Paolo Rocca |
Nova Race Events |
12 | 0 | ||||
| Fabrizio Fontana Stefano Gai |
Spirit of Race |
13 | Ret | 0 | |||
| Mhedi Bouarfa Miguel Garcia Diego Locanto |
DL Racing |
Ret | 0 | ||||
| Michael Fischbaum Miloš Pavlović Florian Spengler |
Auto Sport Racing |
Ret | 0 | ||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | MIS | MNZ | IMO | MUG | Points |
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 Car No. 11 and No. 55 entered as Nova Race Events, and car No. 77 entered as FAEMS Team, which is operated by Nova Race Events.
- 1 2 Antonelli Motorsport serves as the technical service provider for both Stratia Motorsport and AKM Motorsport.
- ↑ Petrov is Russian, but competes under a Slovene licence as Russian national emblems were banned by the FIA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- 1 2 Car No. 163 entered as DL Racing, and car No. 231 entered as Krypton by DL Racing.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "GT 2026: tre campionati, una sola grande stagione | ACI Sport". www.acisport.it. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Les brèves du lundi 20 avril". Endurance-Info (in French). 20 April 2026. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Les brèves du mardi 21 avril". Endurance-Info (in French). 21 April 2026. Retrieved 21 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Ceccato Racing presenta quattro piloti per il programma Endurance nel Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 26 March 2026. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- 1 2 "Tresor Competition poursuit avec Audi en 2026". Endurance-Info (in French). 27 December 2025. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
- ↑ "Nova Race sceglie BMW, dal 2026 al via con la nuova M4 GT3 EVO". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 4 April 2025. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 Bosch, Miguel (4 May 2026). "Nova Race brings back Honda NSX GT3 for 2026 Italian GT Endurance campaign". GT Report. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Guerra torna in Nova Race per il programma Endurance con la BMW M4 GT3 Evo". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 27 March 2026. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Nova Race prende forma anche nell'Endurance con l'equipaggio D'Auria-Ferati-Guerra". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 14 April 2026. Retrieved 14 April 2026.
- ↑ "Les brèves du vendredi 27 février". Endurance-Info. 27 February 2026. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- ↑ "Guerra torna in Nova Race per il programma Endurance con la BMW M4 GT3 Evo". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 27 March 2026. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
- 1 2 Bosch, Miguel (20 January 2026). "Jody Lambrughi confirmed for full Italian GT Endurance campaign with Audi Sport Italia". GT Report. Retrieved 20 January 2026.
- ↑ "Alessandro Bracalente torna con Audi Sport Italia per l'Endurance 2026". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 19 February 2026. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ "Audi Sport Italia completa l'equipaggio Endurance con Nicolò Soffiati". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 4 May 2026. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
- ↑ "Stratia Motorsport debutta nel Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo con la Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 5 January 2026. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Antonelli Motorsport lancia la sfida Endurance con due Mercedes-AMG GT3". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 6 May 2026. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 "T.S.R. by Gino Motorsport accelera nel GT Italiano tra GT3, GT4 e grandi firme internazionali". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 7 May 2026. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
- ↑ "Da Dubai al GT italiano: due Ferrari 296 GT3 per Into Africa Racing by Dragon". www.acisport.it (in Italian). February 11, 2026. Retrieved February 11, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Kessel Racing : cap sur 2026 avec 12 Ferrari en piste". Endurance-Info (in French). 25 February 2026. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Ebimotors sceglie l'Endurance e schiera Venerosi–Baccani–Caglioni su Porsche GT3 R Evo". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 26 March 2026. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 "DL Racing al via del Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo con 13 equipaggi". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 12 March 2026. Retrieved 12 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Rossocorsa conferma il proprio impegno nel GT Italiano Endurance con tre Ferrari al via". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 8 May 2026. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
- ↑ "Les brèves du lundi 23 mars". Endurance-Info (in French). 23 March 2026. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ "Apex Competition debutta nel GT italiano con le Porsche 992 GT3 Cup e il supporto di Gimmi Bruni". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 23 March 2026. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "BiRace raddoppia l'impegno nel GT Italiano e debutta nella serie Endurance". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 7 May 2026. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Tsunami RT riparte dai campioni Nicolosi–Di Benedetto–Carboni, all'attacco dell'Endurance 2026". www.acisport.it (in Italian). 20 April 2026. Retrieved 20 April 2026.
- ↑ "Misano Entry List" (PDF) (in Italian). ACI Sport. 5 May 2026. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
- ↑ "Monza Entry List" (PDF) (in Italian). ACI Sport. 20 June 2026. Retrieved 20 June 2026.
