Italian GT Championship explained

Category:Sports cars
Country/Region:Italy
Inaugural:1992
Drivers:15
Constructors:Mostly Ferrari and Porsches
Champion Driver:GT3:
Vito Postiglione
Luigi Lucchini
Champion Team:GT3:
Ebimotors
Current Season: Italian GT Championship

The Italian GT Championship (Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo) is an Italian sports car series founded in 2003 and organized by the Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI) and the Commissione Sportiva Automobilistica Italiana (CSAI). It replaced a previous supercar-based championship which ran from 1992 until 2002 when it was folded due to a lack of entrants. The series borrowed heavily from the international FIA GT Championship in its first few seasons, although additional entries from Ferrari Challenge, Porsche Supercup, and Maserati Trofeo competitors were allowed.

Following the 2006 season, the top GT1 class was dropped from the championship, leaving competitors in the GT2, GT3, and GT Cup classes. GT2 competition is dominated by the Ferrari F430, with several Porsche 911 GT3s as well. The GT3 class features a variety of machines from the FIA GT3 European Championship, from Aston Martin, Chrysler and Lamborghini, while the GT Cup class is once again made up of Ferrari Challenge and Porsche Supercup cars.

Circuits

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Champions

SeasonOverall
1992 Rory Parasitili
1993 Marco Brand
1994 Vittorio Colombo
1995 Renato Mastropietro
1996 Antonio de Castro
SeasonGT1GT2GT3GT4
1997 Gianni Giudici Alex Dazzan Antonio de Castro Nanni Corongi
1998 Luca Cattaneo
1999 Massimo Pasini Mario Spagnoli Aspero Lapilli
2000 Massimo Pasini Alex Dazzan "Romoletto" Sergio Bertoni
2001 Massimo Pasini Mario Spagnoli "Romoletto" Saturno Bandiera
2002 Denny Zardo Antonio de Castro Roberto Ragazzi Roberto Farnetti
SeasonGTN-GTGT 2
2003 Piergiuseppe Perazzini Andrea Chiesa Massimo Piacentini
Roberto Sperati
2004 Piergiuseppe Perazzini
Gabriele Matteuzzi
Andrea Chiesa
Loris Kessel
Mario Sala
Giovanni Sada
SeasonGT1GT2
2005 Matteo Malucelli
Miguel Ramos
Toni Vilander
Alessandro Pier Guidi
2006 Toni Vilander
Giambattista Giannoccaro
Alex Caffi
Denny Zardo
SeasonGT2GT3GT CupGT4
2007 Stefano Livio
Lorenzo Casè
Giacomo Piccini
Giovanni Berton
Marco Coldani (GT3B)
Angelo Proietti
2008 Max Busnelli
Gabriele Lancieri
Giacomo Piccini
Matteo Grassotto
Mario Sala
Giovanni Sada
"Yah Man"
2009 Francisco Cruz Martins Stefano Livio
Lorenzo Bontempelli
Aldo Cerruti
Mario Ferraris
2010 Andrea Montermini
Emanuele Moncini
Gianluca Roda Marco Mapelli
Fabio Mancini
Agostino Alberghino
Sergio Orsero
2011 Victor Coggiola
Giovanni Coggiola
Marco Bonanomi Giorgio Sanna
Davide Stancheris
Tiziano Cappelletti
SeasonGT2GT3GT Cup (1st Division)GT Cup (2nd Division)
2012 Victor Coggiola
Giovanni Coggiola
Thomas Biagi
Stefano Colombo
Niccolò Granzotto
Alessandro Cicognani
Vincenzo Donativi
2013 Vito Postiglione
Luigi Lucchini
Fabio Babini
Riccardo Bianco
2014 Raffaele Giammaria
Lorenzo Casè
Omar Galbiati Gianni Giudici
2015 Stefano Gattuso Luca Pastorelli
Nicola Pastorelli
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint . 31 May 2024 . RacingCalendar.net.
  2. Web site: Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance . 31 May 2024 . RacingCalendar.net.