Spanish GT Championship

The Spanish GT Championship / Iber GT (Campeonato de España de GT / Iber GT) was a Spanish auto racing series founded in 1999 and organised by the GT Sport Organización. The series runs multiple classes of grand tourer cars in events around Spain and Portugal. The series later formed the basis for the International GT Open, a European-wide series which follows a similar structure.

Format

For racing events, Spanish GT has changed very little since its inception. Each event consists of two races of equal distance, one run on Saturday and the other on Sunday. Each race has its own qualifying session to determine the grid. The races both count towards the points championship, effectively doubling the series schedule.

Initially, three classes of cars were used for the series, termed GT2, GT3, and GT4. This was soon replaced by the GTA, GTB, and GTC classes. These cars ranged from the FIA's GT2 class equivalent down to cars from one make series. The slowest class, GTC, was eliminated in 2001, only to return in 2004. A new GTS class was introduced in 2005, initially for the custom-built SEAT Toledo GT, but was adapted in 2006 to use cars from the FIA GT3 European Championship, originally without scoring points in the first year.

In the current format, the GTA class is dominated by the Ferrari F430 GT2, Porsche 911 GT3-RSR, Mosler MT900R, and the custom-built Sun Red SR21. GTS uses GT3 versions of the Ferrari F430, Porsche 911, Lamborghini Gallardo and Dodge Viper Competition Coupe. GTB is retained for one-make cup regulation versions of the F430 and 911, as well as the Marcos Mantis.

The Spanish GT Championship shares several race weekends with the European F3 Open Championship, also run by the GT Sport Organización.

Champions

An overall combined drivers championship is awarded each season, adding overall points to class points, which can mean a driver from a lower class of car can be crowned the series champion. Along with this, each individual class also awards their own champion.

Season	Overall	GT2	GT3	GT4
1999	Template:Flagicon Antonio Puig Template:Flagicon Javier Camp	Template:Flagicon Carlos Palau	Template:Flagicon Antonio Puig Template:Flagicon Javier Camp	Template:Flagicon Ángel Romero Template:Flagicon Manuel Rosado Domínguez
	Overall	GTA	GTB	GTC
2000	Template:Flagicon Miguel Ángel de Castro Template:Flagicon Balba Camino	Template:Flagicon Miguel Ángel de Castro Template:Flagicon Balba Camino	Template:Flagicon Fermín Vélez Template:Flagicon Javier Díaz	Template:Flagicon Luis C. Maurel
2001	Template:Flagicon Alberto Castello Template:Flagicon Carlos Palau	Template:Flagicon Alberto Castello Template:Flagicon Carlos Palau	Template:Flagicon Javier Díaz
2002	Template:Flagicon Miguel Ramos Template:Flagicon Pedro Chaves	Template:Flagicon Miguel Ramos Template:Flagicon Pedro Chaves	Template:Flagicon Juan Bastos
2003	Template:Flagicon Gines Vivancos	Template:Flagicon Miguel Ángel de Castro Template:Flagicon Balba Camino	Template:Flagicon Luis Pérez-Sala Template:Flagicon Manuel Cerqueda	Template:Flagicon Enrique de la Cuerda Template:Flagicon Jorge Enríquez
2004	Template:Flagicon Shaun Balfe Template:Flagicon Nigel Taylor	Template:Flagicon Miguel Ángel de Castro Template:Flagicon Angel Burgueño	Template:Flagicon Luis Pérez-Sala Template:Flagicon Manuel Cerqueda	Template:Flagicon Francesc Robert
2005	Template:Flagicon Giambattista Giannoccaro	Template:Flagicon Giambattista Giannoccaro	Template:Flagicon Pedro Bastos Template:Flagicon Miguel Cristóvão	Template:Flagicon José Luis Bermúdez de Castro
2006	Template:Flagicon Michele Bartyan	Template:Flagicon Michele Bartyan	Template:Flagicon César Rodrigo Template:Flagicon Daniel Rodrigo
2007	Template:Flagicon Peter Sundberg Template:Flagicon Domingo Romero	Template:Flagicon Peter Sundberg Template:Flagicon Domingo Romero	Template:Flagicon Óscar Fernández Template:Flagicon José Manuel Pérez-Aicart
	Overall	GTA	GTS	GTB
2008	Template:Flagicon Peter Sundberg	Template:Flagicon Peter Sundberg	Template:Flagicon Javier Díaz	Template:Flagicon Antonio Puig Template:Flagicon Alfredo Palencia
	Overall	Super GT	GTS	GT Light
2009	Template:Flagicon Lourenço Beirão da Veiga Template:Flagicon Ricardo Bravo	Template:Flagicon Lourenço Beirão da Veiga Template:Flagicon Ricardo Bravo	Template:Flagicon Antonio Castro Template:Flagicon Jesús Diez Villarroel	Template:Flagicon Ben Clucas Template:Flagicon Francisco Lorena
2010	Template:Flagicon Francisco Cruz Martins	Template:Flagicon Manuel Gião Template:Flagicon Juan Manuel López	Template:Flagicon César Campaniço Template:Flagicon João Figueiredo	Template:Flagicon Oliver Campos-Hull Template:Flagicon Kosta Kanaroglou
2011	Template:Flagicon Manuel Gião	Template:Flagicon Manuel Gião	Template:Flagicon César Campaniço Template:Flagicon João Figueiredo	Template:Flagicon Miguel Toril Template:Flagicon Pol Rosell
2012	Template:Flagicon Mikko Eskelinen	Template:Flagicon Mikko Eskelinen	Template:Flagicon Rafael Unzurrunzaga	Template:Flagicon Francesc Gutiérrez Template:Flagicon Luis Villalba
	Overall	Super GT	GTS	Gentlemen
2013	Template:Flagicon Isaac Tutumlu Template:Flagicon Dimitris Deverikos	Template:Flagicon Isaac Tutumlu Template:Flagicon Dimitris Deverikos	Template:Flagicon not attributed	Template:Flagicon Alexander Talkanitsa Sr.

External links

• Official website