2014 International GT Open explained

The 2014 International GT Open season was the ninth season of the International GT Open, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It began on 3 May at the Nürburgring and finished on 2 November, at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after eight double-header meetings, and a total of sixteen races.

The overall GT Open title – determined by race results within two specific classes as well as overall results – was claimed by SMP Racing Russian Bears duo Roman Mavlanov and Daniel Zampieri, taking three class and overall race wins over the course of the season. Mavlanov and Zampieri won the championship by 10 points ahead of V8 Racing's Nicky Pastorelli and Miguel Ramos. Pastorelli and Ramos won five races overall, and took two further victories in the Super GT class, taking the most wins over the course of the season. A point further behind in third place was 2013 champion Andrea Montermini, with team-mate Niccolò Schirò, at Scuderia Villorba Corse. Although Montermini and Schirò outscored Pastorelli and Ramos on gross scores, a dropped score per the series' sporting regulations cost the Villorba Corse duo the runner-up position. Montermini and Schirò took two race victories, at Jerez and Barcelona. Other overall wins were taken by Maxime Soulet, who won races at the Nürburgring with Nick Catsburg and Portimão with Isaac Tutumlu, while Tutumlu also shared a victory with Archie Hamilton at Spa-Francorchamps. The only overall win for a GTS car came in the final race of the season, as Viacheslav Maleev and José Manuel Pérez-Aicart – team-mates to Mavlanov and Zampieri – headed the field.

In the respective class championships, Mavlanov and Zampieri won the Super GT drivers' championship by five points over Pastorelli and Ramos. Again, just like the overall championship, Montermini and Schirò outscored Pastorelli and Ramos on gross scores, but a dropped score per the series' sporting regulations cost the Villorba Corse duo the runner-up position. In GTS, AF Corse driver Giorgio Roda was crowned champion, having shared his car with Andrea Piccini, Paolo Ruberti and Marco Cioci over the course of the year. Roda won races at the Nürburgring and Monza, to win the title by nine points ahead of Pérez-Aicart, who won five races in class. Maleev finished third in class, after he missed the Silverstone round, where he was replaced by Joan Vinyes. In the teams' championships, V8 Racing won in Super GT by 51 points ahead of SMP Racing Russian Bears, while AF Corse comfortably won in GTS, finishing 123 points clear of their nearest rivals.

Entry list

2014 Entry List
Team		Drivers	Car	Rounds
Super GT
Scuderia Villorba Corse^[1]	1	Andrea Montermini	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	All
		Niccolò Schirò		All
V8 Racing^[2]	2	Nicky Pastorelli	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	1–5
		Miguel Ramos		1–5
		Nicky Pastorelli	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	6–8
		Miguel Ramos		6–8
	4	Diederik Sijthoff	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	1–4, 6, 8
		Archie Hamilton		1–4
		Maxime Soulet^[3]		5–8
		Francesco Pastorelli		5
		Kelvin Snoeks		7
Drivex School^[4]	5	Fernando Monje	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (2012)	1
		Juan Manuel López^[5]		1
		Thomas Fjordbach^[6]		3
		Álvaro Barba		3
	7	Miguel Angel de Castro	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	3
Selleslagh Racing Team SRT^[7] Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	6	Maxime Soulet	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	1–4
		Archie Hamilton		5–8
		Nick Catsburg		1
		Isaac Tutumlu^[8]		2–8
TF Sport	8	Darren Turner	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3	5
		Jody Fannin		5
Autorlando Sport^[9]	13	Matteo Beretta	Porsche 997 GT3R	1
		Isaac Tutumlu		1
SMP Racing Russian Bears	60	Roman Mavlanov	Ferrari 458 GT Italia	All
		Daniel Zampieri		All
Black Bull Swiss Racing^[10]	64	Joël Camathias	Ferrari 458 GT Italia
		Mirko Venturi		1
Eurotech Engineering^[11]	68	Davide Valsecchi	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	1
		Giovanni Venturini		1
GTS
Autorlando Sport	13	Matteo Beretta	Porsche 997 GT3R	2–8
		Joël Camathias		2–8
	83	Thomas Gruber	Porsche 997 GT3R	7
		Emanuele Romani		7
Veloso Motorsport	33	Tiago Mesquita	Lamborghini Gallardo FL2	8
		Patrick Cunha		8
Kessel Racing^[12]	52	Stephen Earle	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	8
		Johnny Laursen		8
AF Corse^[13]	53	Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	2, 4
		Francesco Castellacci		2, 4
	54	Duncan Cameron	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	1–4, 6–8
		Matt Griffin		1–4, 6–8
	55	Claudio Sdanewitsch	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	All
		Federico Leo		1, 5, 7–8
		Michele Rugolo		2–4, 6
	56	Giorgio Roda	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	All
		Andrea Piccini		1
		Paolo Ruberti		2–7
		Marco Cioci		8
	57	Adrien De Leener	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	2
		Cédric Sbirrazzuoli		2
	79	Nikita Zlobin^[14]	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	6–8
		Luca Persiani		6–8
	80	Pasin Lathouras	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	6–7
		Richard Lyons		6–7
Team Novadriver	58	César Campaniço	Audi R8 LMS ultra	All
		Aditya Patel		All
	88	Fernando Monje	Audi R8 LMS ultra	8
		Fabien Hamprecht		8
Sports and You	59	António Coimbra	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	1–2
		Luis Silva		1–2
SMP Racing Russian Bears	61	José Manuel Pérez-Aicart	Ferrari 458 GT Italia	All
		Viacheslav Maleev		1–4, 6–8
		Joan Vynes		5
Ombra Racing^[15]	62	Mario Cordoni	Ferrari 458 GT Italia	1–3, 5, 7
		Stefano Gattuso		1–3, 5, 7
	63		Ferrari 458 GT Italia	6
		Stefano Costantini^[16]		1–3, 6–7
		Álvaro Barba^[17]		4–5
		Alan Sicart		1–5
		Lorenzo Bontempelli^[18]		7
Eurotech Engineering	67	Ferdinando Geri	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	1
		Lorenzo Bontempelli		1
Team Spirit Race Attempto Racing^[19]	69	Dietmar Haggenmüller	Audi R8 LMS ultra	1, 6
		Arkin Aka		6
		Suzanne Weidt		1
	78		Audi R8 LMS ultra	6
		Michelle Gatting		6
Lechner Racing	70	Mario Plachutta	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	1–2, 4
		Thomas Jäger		1–2, 4
Krypton Motorsport	71	Glauco Solieri	Porsche 997 GT3R	1
		Stefano Pezzucchi		1
Kox Racing	72	Tomáš Enge	Lamborghini Gallardo FL2	1
		Maximiliam Völker		1
	76		Lamborghini Gallardo FL2	8
		Peter Kox		1, 8
		Nico Pronk		1
Ebimotors	73	Ivan Jacoma	Porsche 997 GT3R (2013)	2, 5, 7
		Adriano Pan		2, 5, 7
Nova Race	74	Craig Dolby	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3	3
		Lorenzo Bontempelli		3
Easy Race	75	Fabio Mancini	Ferrari 458 GT Italia	4, 6–7
		Andrea Dromedari		4, 6–7
Monaco Driving Experience	81	Francesco Castellacci	McLaren MP4-12C GT3	7
		Grant Tromans		7
Reiter Engineering	82	Maximiliam Völker	Chevrolet Camaro GT3	7
		Tomáš Enge		7
Shaun Balfe	84	Shaun Balfe	Ferrari 458 GT Italia (2013)	8
		Phil Keen		8
Team Sofrev ASP	85	Maurice Ricci	Ferrari 458 GT Italia	8
		Jérôme Policand		8
	86	Jean-Luc Beaubelique	Ferrari 458 GT Italia	8
		Gabriel Balthazard		8
TDS Racing	87	Eric Dermont	BMW Z4 GT3	8
		Franck Perera		8
V8 Racing	99	Dennis Retera	Chevrolet Corvette Z06.R GT3	1–5
		Dylan Derdaele		1–3
		Daniel Keilwitz		4–5

Race calendar and results

• An eight-round provisional calendar was revealed on 6 November 2013.^[20] On 23 January 2014 it was announced that the rounds at Jerez and Portimão would switch dates.^[21]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	SGT Winner	GTS Winner
1	1	Nürburgring	3 May	No. 60 SMP Racing Russian Bears	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 61 SMP Racing Russian Bears
				Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Viacheslav Maleev José Manuel Pérez-Aicart
	R2		4 May	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team SRT	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team SRT	No. 56 AF Corse
				Maxime Soulet Nick Catsburg	Maxime Soulet Nick Catsburg	Giorgio Roda Andrea Piccini
2	R1	Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão	7 June	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 63 Ombra Racing
				Maxime Soulet Isaac Tutumlu	Maxime Soulet Isaac Tutumlu	Stefano Costantini Alan Sicart
	R2		8 June	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 55 AF Corse
				Maxime Soulet Isaac Tutumlu	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Claudio Sdanewitsch Michele Rugolo
3	R1	Circuito de Jerez	21 June	No. 58 Team Novadriver	No. 60 SMP Racing Russian Bears	No. 58 Team Novadriver
				César Campaniço Aditya Patel	Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	César Campaniço Aditya Patel
	R2		22 June	No. 55 AF Corse	No. 1 Scuderia Villorba Corse	No. 74 Nova Race
				Claudio Sdanewitsch Michele Rugolo	Andrea Montermini Niccolò Schirò	Craig Dolby Lorenzo Bontempelli
4	R1	Hungaroring	5 July	No. 60 SMP Racing Russian Bears	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 63 Ombra Racing
				Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Alan Sicart Álvaro Barba
	R2		6 July	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 61 SMP Racing Russian Bears
				Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Viacheslav Maleev José Manuel Pérez-Aicart
5	R1	Silverstone Circuit	19 July	No. 8 TF Sport	No. 8 TF Sport	No. 13 Autorlando Sport
				Darren Turner Jody Fannin	Darren Turner Jody Fannin	Matteo Beretta Joël Camathias
	R2		20 July	No. 58 Team Novadriver	No. 60 SMP Racing Russian Bears	No. 61 SMP Racing Russian Bears
				César Campaniço Aditya Patel	Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	Joan Vynes José Manuel Pérez-Aicart
6	R1	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	6 September	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 80 AF Corse
				Archie Hamilton Isaac Tutumlu	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Pasin Lathouras Richard Lyons
	R2		7 September	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 54 AF Corse
				Archie Hamilton Isaac Tutumlu	Archie Hamilton Isaac Tutumlu	Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin
7	R1	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	27 September	No. 6 Selleslagh Racing Team by Barzani	No. 60 SMP Racing Russian Bears	No. 56 AF Corse
				Archie Hamilton Isaac Tutumlu	Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	Giorgio Roda Paolo Ruberti
	R2		28 September	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 61 SMP Racing Russian Bears
				Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Viacheslav Maleev José Manuel Pérez-Aicart
8	R1	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	1 November	No. 60 SMP Racing Russian Bears	No. 1 Scuderia Villorba Corse	No. 84 Shaun Balfe
				Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri	Andrea Montermini Niccolò Schirò	Shaun Balfe Phil Keen
	R2		2 November	No. 1 Scuderia Villorba Corse	No. 2 V8 Racing	No. 61 SMP Racing Russian Bears
				Andrea Montermini Niccolò Schirò	Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos	Viacheslav Maleev José Manuel Pérez-Aicart

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
Points	10	8	6	4	3

Drivers' Championships

For the Drivers' Championships, the best 13 results counted towards the final championship standings. Any other results were discarded.

Super GT

Pos Driver NÜR ALG JER HUN SIL SPA MNZ CAT Total 1 Roman Mavlanov Daniel Zampieri 2 2 4 12 1 7 4 7 Ret 1 9 2 1 5 2 3 104 2 Nicky Pastorelli Miguel Ramos 1 4 3 1 7 8 3 1 4 DNS 1 Ret Ret 1 18 2 99 3 Andrea Montermini Niccolò Schirò 4 3 2 2 4 1 5 3 10 6 6 3 3 20 1 10 4 Maxime Soulet 3 1 1 3 Ret DNS 16 2 2 8 7 DNS 5 2 3 18 81 5 Isaac Tutumlu Ret 21 1 3 Ret DNS 16 2 5 3 Ret 1 2 3 9 5 71 6 Archie Hamilton Ret 19 6 DSQ Ret 4 14 11 5 3 Ret 1 2 3 9 5 62 7 Diederik Sijthoff Ret 19 6 DSQ Ret 4 14 11 7 DNS 3 18 33 8 Jody Fannin Darren Turner 1 2 18 9 Nick Catsburg 3 1 16 10 Kelvin Snoeks 5 2 12 11 Francesco Pastorelli 2 8 11 12 Álvaro Barba Thomas Fjordbach 10 12 7 13 Joël Camathias 6 5 6 14 Mirko Venturi 6† 5 3 Pos Driver NÜR ALG JER HUN SIL SPA MNZ CAT Total

GTS

Pos	Driver	NÜR		ALG		JER		HUN		SIL		SPA		MNZ		CAT		Total
1	Giorgio Roda	10	6	8	8	3	Ret	2	8	6	9	5	Ret	4	8	7	4	86
2	José Manuel Pérez Aicart	5	Ret	7	9	6	9	13	4	8	4	12	9	8	4	8	1	77
3	Viacheslav Maleev	5	Ret	7	9	6	9	13	4			12	9	8	4	8	1	63
4	Paolo Ruberti			8	8	3	Ret	2	8	6	9	5	Ret	4	8			59
5	Matteo Beretta Joël Camathias			10	6	5	5	9	Ret	3	5	11	6	15	12	6	6	59
6	César Campaniço Aditya Patel	13	11	9	11	2	6	8	10	9	7	13	5	14	11	5	15	48
7	Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin	7	10	Ret	14	11	11	12	6			3	4	11	16	10	7	42
8	Alan Sicart	11	7	5	10	12	Ret	1	5	Ret	Ret							36
9	Stefano Costantini	11	7	5	10	12	Ret					4	Ret	9	7			33
10	Claudio Sdanewitsch	8	12	11	4	13	3	11	Ret	7	11	10	10	10	14	12	14	30
11	Nikita Zlobin Luca Persiani											8	7	6	6	13	Ret	23
12	Lorenzo Bontempelli	17	17			8	2							9	7			22
13	Michele Rugolo			11	4	13	3	11	Ret			10	10					18
14	Álvaro Barba							1	5	Ret	Ret							18
15	Stefano Gattuso	16	Ret	13	5	14	13			12	10	4	Ret	12	13			17
16	Pasin Lathouras Richard Lyons											2	Ret	7	10			16
17	Joan Vinyes									8	4							14
18	Craig Dolby					8	2											13
19	Andrea Piccini	10	6															13
20	Federico Leo	8	12							7	11			10	14	12	14	12
21	Dennis Retera	12	8	Ret	Ret	9	10	6	Ret	13	Ret							12
22	Thomas Jäger Mario Plachutta	9	9	12	13			7	Ret									12
23	Mario Cordoni	16	Ret	13	5	14	13			12	10			12	13			11
24	Daniel Keilwitz							6	Ret	13	Ret							6
25	Dylan Derdaele	12	8	Ret	Ret	9	10											6
26	Maximiliam Völker	19	13											Ret	9	11	12	6
27	Adrien de Leener Cédric Sbirrazzuoli			14	7													4
28	Peter Kox	15	15													11	12	3
29	Tomáš Enge	19	13											Ret	9			3
30	Andrea Dromedari Fabio Mancini							15	12			14	8	13	15			3
31	Francesco Castellacci			Ret	DNS			10	9					16	18			3
32	Thomas Flohr			Ret	DNS			10	9									3
Pos	Driver	NÜR		ALG		JER		HUN		SIL		SPA		MNZ		CAT		Total

Notes and References

1. News: Villorba confirms Schirò alongside reigning Champion Montermini. 2 April 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 2 April 2014.
2. News: V8 Racing launches title bid with three top line-ups and four Vettes. 25 February 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 15 March 2014.
3. News: Entry list fin. 19 July 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 19 July 2014.
4. News: Fernando Monje to lead Drivex’s 2014 bid. 10 March 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 15 March 2014.
5. News: Entry NUR fin. 2 May 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 3 May 2014.
6. News: Entry List (fin) Jerez. 21 June 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 21 June 2014.
7. News: SRT in the GT Open for its come-back. 5 March 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 15 March 2014.
8. News: Entry ALG fin. 8 June 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 8 June 2014.
9. News: Beretta-Tutumlu bid for the title with Autorlando. 26 March 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 28 March 2013.
10. News: Full 2014 campaign for Black Bull Swiss Racing with Camathias-Venturi. 19 December 2013. International GT Open. GT Sport. 19 December 2013.
11. News: New entry Eurotech enters Lambo for Valsecchi-Venturini!. 9 April 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 10 April 2014.
12. News: Entry List_Prov. 29 October 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 29 October 2014.
13. News: AF Corse with four cars and big names. 6 March 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 15 March 2014.
14. News: Entry List_fin. 6 September 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 6 September 2014.
15. News: Ombra confirms two cars and Cordoni-Gattuso. 21 February 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 15 March 2014.
16. News: Ombra Racing confirm second GT Open entry with Sicart and Costantini. 2 April 2014. Ombra Racing. Ombra srl. 2 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140407061150/http://www.ombraracing.com/en/news.php?postID=362. 7 April 2014. dead. dmy-all.
17. News: Entry HUN fin0. 5 July 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 5 July 2014.
18. News: Entry Monza. 24 September 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 24 September 2014.
19. News: Spa: AF Corse adds two entries, Attempto Audis and Mosler join. 29 August 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 3 September 2014.
20. News: GT Sport announces 2014 GT Open calendar. 6 November 2013. International GT Open. GT Sport. 6 November 2013.
21. News: Portimão and Jerez switch dates. 23 January 2014. International GT Open. GT Sport. 25 January 2014.