The 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup was the sixth season of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The season started on 24 April at Monza and ended on 18 September at the Nürburgring. The season featured five rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of three hours besides the 24 Hours of Spa and the 1000 km Paul Ricard events. After developing their partnership, Blancpain and the SRO decided that 2016 would see both the Sprint and Endurance Series further integrated into the Blancpain GT Series, putting the emphasis on the prestigious overall drivers' and manufacturers' titles causing the Endurance Series name to change from Blancpain Endurance Series to Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup.
Calendar On 18 September 2015, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the 2016 calendar.
Event Race Circuit Date 1 3 Hours of Monza Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy 24 April Report 2 3 Hours of Silverstone Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Great Britain 15 May Report 3 1000 km Paul Ricard Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France 25 June Report 4 Total 24 Hours of Spa Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium 30–31 July Report 5 3 Hours of Nürburgring Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany 18 September Report
Entry list Team Car Drivers Class Rounds AMG - Team Black Falcon Black Falcon Mercedes-AMG GT3 00 Yelmer Buurman P 3–4 Bernd Schneider Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al Faisal 3 Maro Engel 4 56 Oliver Morley PA All Miguel Toril Maro Engel 1–3, 5 Abdulaziz Bin Turki Al Faisal 4 Daniel Juncadella 57 Adam Christodoulou P All Hubert Haupt Andreas Simonsen 68 Bradley Ellis PA 5 Euan Hankey Salih Yoluc Belgian Audi Club Team WRT Audi Sport Team WRT Audi R8 LMS 1 Dries Vanthoor P All Frédéric Vervisch Laurens Vanthoor 1–3, 5 Will Stevens 4 2 Robin Frijns P All Stuart Leonard Michael Meadows 3 Rodrigo Baptista P All Filipe Albuquerque 1–4 Sérgio Jimenez 1–2, 4–5 Jan Magnussen 3 Adrien Tambay 5 4 Pierre Kaffer P All Adrien de Leener Peter Kox 1–3 Bertrand Baguette 4 Ben Barnicoat 5 28 Will Stevens P 1–3, 5 Antonio García 1–3 Nico Müller 1–2, 4 René Rast 3–4 Laurens Vanthoor 4 Christopher Mies 5 Connor De Phillippi Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS 6 Christopher Mies P 4 Frank Stippler Markus Winkelhock Bentley Team M-Sport Bentley Continental GT3 7 Vincent Abril P All Steven Kane Guy Smith 8 Wolfgang Reip P All Andy Soucek Maxime Soulet Ombra Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 10 Matteo Beretta PA All Giovanni Berton Stefano Costantini 1–4 Stefano Gattuso 4 Alex Frassineti 5 Kessel Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 11 Alessandro Bonacini PA All Michał Broniszewski Andrea Rizzoli Giacomo Piccini 4 Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 111 Bernard Delhez Am 1–3 Stephen Earle David Perel 888 Vadim Gitlin Am All Liam Talbot Marco Zanuttini Nicola Cadei 4 Boutsen Ginion BMW M6 GT3 12 Julien Darras PA All Olivier Grotz Karim Ojjeh Arno Santamato 4 Emil Frey Racing Emil Frey GT3 Jaguar 14 Albert Costa P All Lorenz Frey Stéphane Ortelli 114 Jonathan Hirschi P 4–5 Christian Klien Markus Palttala 4 Norbert Siedler 5 BMW Team Italia BMW M6 GT3 15 Stefano Colombo PA All Max Koebolt Giorgio Roda 1–4 Martin Tomczyk 4 Stefano Comandini 5 GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini Huracán GT3 16 Mirko Bortolotti P All Rolf Ineichen Jeroen Bleekemolen 1–4 Christian Engelhart 5 19 Michele Beretta P All Andrea Piccini Luca Stolz 63 Diego Alessi PA 4 Dennis Andersen Anders Fjordbach Nicolas Pohler Nissan GT Academy Team RJN Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 22 Romain Sarazin PA All Matt Simmons Sean Walkinshaw Ricardo Sánchez 4 23 Alex Buncombe P All Lucas Ordóñez Mitsunori Takaboshi Team Parker Racing Bentley Continental GT3 24 Ian Loggie PA 1–4 Callum MacLeod Tom Onslow-Cole Andy Meyrick 4 30 Chris Harris Am All Derek Pierce Chris Cooper 1–3 David Perel 4 Carl Rosenblad Saintéloc Racing Audi R8 LMS 25 Marco Bonanomi PA All Marc Rostan Christian Kelders 1, 3–5 Gilles Lallemant 2 Frédéric Bouvy 4 26 Grégory Guilvert P All Christopher Haase Mike Parisy Audi R8 LMS ultra 27 Michael Blanchemain Am 4 Jean-Paul Buffin Valentin Hasse-Clot Gilles Lallemant Konrad Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 29 Jules Gounon P 1–2 Christopher Zöchling Christopher Brück 1 Daniel Cammish 2 Jules Gounon PA 4–5 Christopher Zöchling Rik Breukers 4 Luca Rettenbacher Hendrik Still 5 Scuderia Praha Ferrari 488 GT3 34 Matteo Malucelli PA 1–4 Jiří Písařík Stéphane Kox 3 David Fumanelli 4 Josef Král Car Collection Motorsport Audi R8 LMS 35 Marc Basseng PA 5 Horst Felbermayr Jr. Andreas Weishaupt Antonelli Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 38 Lorenzo Casè PA 1 Marco Magli Cristian Passuti Michela Cerruti 3–4 Alberto Di Folco 3 Raffaele Giannoni Cédric Sbirrazzuoli 4 Loris Spinelli Gilles Vannelet Easy Race Ferrari 488 GT3 40 Ferdinando Geri PA 4 Daniel Mancinelli Gregory Romanelli Niccolò Schirò CMR by Sport Garage Classic & Modern Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 41 Benjamin Lariche PA 1 Dino Lunardi Theo Filler Am 3 Nicolas Melin Romano Ricci Romain Brandela 4 Timothé Buret Bernard Delhez Mickaël Petit 42 Thomas Nicolle Am 1–4 Nyls Stievenart 1–2 Jörg Viebahn 1 Romano Ricci 2 Romain Brandela 3, 5 Christophe Hamon Sylvain Debs 4 David Loger Eric Mouez Bernard Delhez 5 Oman Racing Team Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 44 Jonathan Adam PA All Ahmad Al Harthy Devon Modell Darren Turner 4 Sports & You Mercedes-AMG GT3 46 José Manuel Balbiani Am 5 Angélique Detavernier Louis-Philippe Soenen Kaspersky Motorsport AF Corse AT Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 49 Alexander Moiseev Am All Garry Kondakov 1–2 Riccardo Ragazzi Stéphane Lémeret 3–4 Davide Rizzo 4–5 Rui Águas 4 Ferrari 488 GT3 50 Pasin Lathouras P All Alessandro Pier Guidi Michele Rugolo 51 Francisco Guedes Am All Peter Mann Rino Mastronardi Matteo Cressoni 4 52 Duncan Cameron PA 1, 3–5 Matt Griffin Davide Rizzo 3 Riccardo Ragazzi 4 Andrew Scott 53 Lorenzo Bontempelli PA All Motoaki Ishikawa Giancarlo Fisichella 1–2, 4 Olivier Beretta 3–5 55 Francesco Castellacci PA 4 Marco Cioci Thomas Flohr Piergiuseppe Perazzini Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 90 Alessandro Balzan P 1–4 Raffaele Giammaria Ezequiel Pérez Companc Thomas Kemenater Am 5 Stéphane Lémeret Claudio Sdanewitsch Garage 59 McLaren 650S GT3 58 Rob Bell P All Côme Ledogar Shane van Gisbergen 1–4 Duncan Tappy 5 59 Alex Fontana P All Struan Moore Andrew Watson 60 Pipo Derani P 4 Bruno Senna Duncan Tappy Black Pearl Racing Rinaldi Racing Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 66 Alexander Mattschull PA 1–3, 5 Steve Parrow Daniel Keilwitz 1–2, 5 Dominik Schwager 3 333 Marco Seefried P 1–2 Norbert Siedler Rinat Salikhov Ferrari 488 GT3 Am 3–5 Pierre Ehret Alexander Mattschull 4 Marco Seefried 488 Pierre Ehret Am 1–2 Stef Van Campenhout ARC Bratislava Lamborghini Huracán GT3 69 Miroslav Konôpka Am All Andrzej Lewandowski Teodor Myszkowski Zdeno Mikuláško 4 ISR Audi R8 LMS 74 Philippe Giauque PA All Henry Hassid Franck Perera Nicolas Lapierre 4 75 Filip Salaquarda P All Marlon Stöckinger Frank Stippler 1–3, 5 Edoardo Mortara 4 IMSA Performance Porsche 911 GT3 R 76 Thierry Cornac PA All Raymond Narac Maxime Jousse 1–4 Patrick Pilet 4 Mathieu Jaminet 5 Attempto Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R 77 Nicolas Armindo PA All Jürgen Häring Clément Mateu Kévin Estre 4 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 100 Jeroen Mul PA All Max van Splunteren Louis Machiels 1–2, 4–5 Paul van Splunteren 3 Giovanni Venturini 4 101 Patric Niederhauser P All Daniel Zampieri Fabio Babini 1–4 Christian Mamerow 5 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracán GT3 78 Leo Machitski PA All Marco Mapelli Marco Attard 1, 4 Phil Keen 2–3, 5 Tom Kimber-Smith 4 666 Joe Osborne PA 1–2, 4 Richard Abra 1–2 Mark Poole Oliver Gavin 4 Phil Keen Jon Minshaw SPS Automotive Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3 80 Lance David Arnold P 3 Alex Müller Valentin Pierburg HTP Motorsport AMG - Team HTP Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 84 Dominik Baumann P All Maximilian Buhk Jazeman Jaafar 85 Luciano Bacheta P All Indy Dontje Clemens Schmid 86 Thomas Jäger P 3–4 Christian Hohenadel 3 Jules Szymkowiak Maximilian Götz 4 Gary Paffett AKKA ASP AMG - Team AKKA ASP Mercedes-AMG GT3 87 Jean-Luc Beaubelique Am 1–3, 5 Maurice Ricci Gilles Vannelet 88 Tristan Vautier P 3–4 Renger van der Zande Morgan Moullin-Traffort 3 Felix Rosenqvist 4 89 Laurent Cazenave PA All Michael Lyons Daniele Perfetti Morgan Moullin-Traffort 4 Zakspeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 91 Jean-Frédéric Laberge P 1 Alex Tagliani Darryl O'Young Sebastian Asch 5 Luca Ludwig Nikolaj Rogivue Rowe Racing BMW M6 GT3 98 Stef Dusseldorp P 1–2, 4–5 Lucas Luhr 1, 3 Klaus Graf 1 Jens Klingmann 2–3 Nick Catsburg 2, 4 Dirk Werner 3–4 Tom Blomqvist 5 Martin Tomczyk 99 Philipp Eng P All Alexander Sims Dirk Werner 1 Maxime Martin 2, 4 Stef Dusseldorp 3 Nick Catsburg 5 Lago Racing Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX 132 Roger Lago PA 4 Steve Owen David Russell Jonathon Webb Group N entries are ineligible to score points SpeedLover Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 230 Wim Meulders N 4 Grégory Paisse Pierre-Yves Paque Philippe Richard RMS Porsche 991 GT3 Cup 911 Jean-Marc Bachelier N 4 Howard Blank Yannick Mallegol Fabrice Notari Icon Class P Pro Cup PA Pro-Am Cup Am Am Cup N Group N
Race results Bold indicates overall winner. Event Circuit Pole position Pro Winners Pro-Am Winners Am Winners 1 Monza No. 84 HTP Motorsport No. 58 Garage 59 No. 11 Kessel Racing No. 87 AKKA ASP Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk Jazeman Jaafar Rob Bell Shane van Gisbergen Côme Ledogar Alessandro Bonacini Michał Broniszewski Andrea Rizzoli Jean-Luc Beaubelique Maurice Ricci Gilles Vannelet 2 Silverstone No. 16 GRT Grasser Racing Team No. 84 HTP Motorsport No. 56 Black Falcon No. 488 Rinaldi Racing Jeroen Bleekemolen Mirko Bortolotti Rolf Ineichen Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk Jazeman Jaafar Maro Engel Oliver Morley Miguel Toril Stef Van Campenhout Pierre Ehret 3 Paul Ricard No. 50 AF Corse No. 58 Garage 59 No. 11 Kessel Racing No. 888 Kessel Racing Pasin Lathouras Alessandro Pier Guidi Michele Rugolo Rob Bell Shane van Gisbergen Côme Ledogar Alessandro Bonacini Michał Broniszewski Andrea Rizzoli Vadim Gitlin Liam Talbot Marco Zanuttini 4 Spa-Francorchamps No. 28 Audi Sport Team WRT No. 99 Rowe Racing No. 76 IMSA Performance No. 888 Kessel Racing Nico Müller René Rast Laurens Vanthoor Philipp Eng Maxime Martin Alexander Sims Thierry Cornac Maxime Jousse Raymond Narac Patrick Pilet Nicola Cadei Vadim Gitlin Liam Talbot Marco Zanuttini 5 Nürburgring No. 19 GRT Grasser Racing Team No. 16 GRT Grasser Racing Team No. 66 Black Pearl Racing No. 87 AKKA ASP Michele Beretta Andrea Piccini Luca Stolz Mirko Bortolotti Christian Engelhart Rolf Ineichen Daniel Keilwitz Alexander Mattschull Steve Parrow Jean-Luc Beaubelique Maurice Ricci Gilles Vannelet
Championship standings Scoring system Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. The pole-sitter also received one point and entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.
Race points Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pole Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 1
1000 km Paul Ricard points Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pole Points 33 24 19 15 12 9 6 4 2 1 1
24 Hours of Spa points Points were awarded after six hours, after twelve hours and at the finish. Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pole Points after 6hrs/12hrs 12 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 Points at the finish 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Drivers' championships
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