SRO opposed to the single GT category wanted by the ACO and the FIA

A popular category in Grand Touring currently, the GT3 has been popular since its introduction of SRO. In 2012, cars meeting these regulations filled the starting grids of the FIA ​​GT1, FIA GT3 and Blancpain. Endurance Series and British GT, championships promoted by Stéphane Ratel's company. She wanted to express her feelings about the desire of the ACO and the FIA ​​to create, at the earliest in 2015, a single GT category with the technical credibility of GTE and the reduced costs of GT3.

SRO explains its disagreement by:

1 – A need for stability. The GT3, a category bringing together 14 different brands, with models developed and sold by manufacturers, must not be disrupted by the need to save the GTE category of the ACO, whose success has never been up to that of known by the GT3.

2 – GT, which brings together the most prestigious manufacturers and brands, should not be considered as a subcategory compared to prototypes, and deserves different levels of development. There is a need for two categories in GT racing, as is the case in prototypes with LM P1 and LM P2.

3? The current distribution between the ACO GTE and the FIA ​​GT3 clearly corresponds to two different market needs. Merging them would go against the wishes of the teams and manufacturers registered in each category.
* Balance of performance, a concept rejected by several manufacturers when it comes to commitments supported by the factory (as is the case in GTE Pro in WEC), will tarnish the technical competition that exists in GTE.
* This would increase the costs of the GT3, and would make certain models uncompetitive by reducing the number of possible modifications to the original production model (As a reminder, the GT3 has no real technical regulations, but only works with a balance performs).

In conclusion, SRO believes that this new category will not meet its objectives, as manufacturers producing the highest performance production cars will also want to race under strict regulations.

SRO therefore offers:

1- To preserve the balance of performance of the FIA ​​GT3 and to be more flexible in order to allow a greater variety of GTs to be competitive given their initial weight and level of performance. To keep GT3 costs at an affordable level by controlling the increase in performance with a very strict limitation of development from one year to the next.

2- To establish a new FIA GT2 category based on precise technical rules, not very flexible, and with a balance of performances which will be limited to playing with the on-board ballast. A category in which manufacturers will be able to use the competition to prove that they have the best production car. All with conditions that would prevent a drift as was the case for the GT1.

If such a category were to see the light of day, then SRO would consider integrating it as a Pro category in its international series in 2014.