GT Tour – The 2015 calendar finalized

Next year, the GT Tour will cross the Pyrenees again towards the Navarra circuit (visited in 2012) which will complement the 2015 season calendar. The Spanish route will take the place of Nogaro from 25 to 27 September. The Gers circuit will nevertheless host the opening of the racing season. Blancpain Sprint Series on the occasion of the Easter Cups. The Spa round in Belgium will be brought forward two weeks, from June 5 to 7 instead of June 19 to 21.

The executive office and the Steering Committee of the FFSA also ratified several decisions which had been put forward in the Var at the end of October. The Open Challenge category will be created and will feature cars different from the GT3s used by the teams in the French Championship, with the stated aim of strengthening the proposed field, and which will be divided into three groups: Group 1 for cars from Cups or Brand Challenges GT (two-wheel drive only), Group 2 for Mitjet GT type cars and Group 3 for Super Sport type cars.

Le Junior Challenge (for those under 25, categorized Bronze) and the Gentlemen Challenge (Bronze pilots who are part of a Bronze crew) will be there. The other main novelty concerns the introduction of a French Supertourism Championship, based on the Supertourism by Mitjet by Jean-Philippe Dayraut. The one-make series (a first in the history of French Supertourism) will feature cars powered by a 6-liter V3,5 naturally aspirated engine developing 330 horsepower.

Find our presentation of the French Supertourism Championship, in issue 1991 of AUTOhebdo, available now in digital version and on newsstands.