2016 GT-R World Championship season

2016 GT-R World Championship Season
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The 2016 GT-R World Championship season was the first season of GT-R WC.

Teams and drivers

In late 2015, a total of twenty-two teams applied to be a part of the 30 car series, with seventeen teams initially being accepted into the series. A formal complaint was filed by one of the teams who wasn't accept citing the process that entries were accepted being too vague and potentially biased. With this in mind, GT-R Management allowed 2 car Independent teams to surrender a car in order to let teams who weren't initially accepted into the series to join. By the end of the process, 3 new teams were added to the entry list.

Team	Car	Class	#	Starting Driver	Second Driver	Round
Scuderia Vittore	Lister Storm	I	0	Denis van Walwijk	Alexis Tantovich	1-
Racing Team Solvalou	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	M	02	Antonio Fazio	Enrico Molinaro	1-
			03	Darren Cardel	Stefan Kuntz	1-
Scuderia Belgio	Ferrari 550 Maranello	I	5	Simon Garfünkel	Kim Jong-Sung	1-
				Justin Case		TBC
Aeroracing Engineering	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	I	7	John Magnus	Olivier Gardin	1-
			77	Andoni Garrido	Roy Mellows	1-
Best In The World Motorsport	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	I	13	Du Lei	Chacko Palaniappan	1-
Rojo GT	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	I	15	Adrian Rojo Fernández	Jans Zeitner	1-
			32	Frank van Nifterick	Helena Boveri	1-
Gerald Pereria-Pan Asia Alliance	Lister Storm	M	19	Gerald Pereria	Shane Sparks	1-
			20	Nestra Aya	Fabian Rei	1-
Union Saver Developments	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	M	25	Alphonse Ribeiro	Karl Lichter Shultz	1-
			26	Ricardo Llosa	Jordan McKenna	1-
IBR Scuderia Alitalia	Ferrari 550 Maranello	M	27	Rafael Modena	Dennis Mignolet	1-
			28	Giovanni Roda	Frédéric-Maxime Voeckler	1-
Onyx Racing	Saleen S7-R	I	30	Wakana Morioka	Milan Vukovic	1-
Rosenforth Engineering	Pagani Zonda GR	M	31	Pieter Kickert	John Zimmer	1-
			62	Jimmy Rosenforth	Mike Stern	1-
Aurico Autosport	Lister Storm	I	34	Claude Vergne	Fernando Valdes	1-
			48	Yuji Itoh	Luca Modena	1-
Kjellerup Racing	Ferrari 575 GTC	I	39	Mattias Kjellerup	Jasper Lerby	1-
Ambrose-Milan Autosport	Ferrari 550 Maranello	I	41	Joey Alliot	Jacques Malenfant	1-
			42	Matteo Rossi	Oliver Jones	1-
Aero Kings Racing	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	I	49	Ernest Bruno	Carsten Jancker	1-
Chris Short Racing	Ferrari 575 GTC	I	54	Pierre Mantovani	Andrea Massini	1-
			55	Anthony North	Peter Wok Cheng	1-
Puyo Puyo/Vittore	Lister Storm	I	67	Heizo Takekawa	Unai Vera	1-
JLD Motorsport	Saleen S7-R	I	73	Tom Douglas	Pierre Depault	1-3, 5, 7-9, 11
				Nikolai Nurmovitsch		4, 6, 10
Kun Engineering	Ferrari 575 GTC	I	87	John Bovy	Jayleen Mori	1-
Gulf Racing	Saleen S7-R	I	95	Saeed Al Faisal	Roland Davidson	1-

Races

Race	Track	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Car	Independant Winner
Round of Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	13 March
Round of Australia	Bathurst	27 March
Round of Italy	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	1 May
Round of France	Le Mans Bugatti	8 May
Round of Canada	Canadian Tire Motorsports Park	12 June
Round of the United States	Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca	19 June
Round of Germany	Norisring	10 July
Round of the United Kingdom	Silverstone Circuit	7 August
Round of Belgium	Circuit de Spa Francorchamps	11 September
Round of Argentina	Potrero De Los Funes	2 October
Round of Brazil	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	9 October
Round of China	Zhuhai International Circuit	23 October
Round of Japan	Fuji Speedway	6 November
Super GP At High Speed Ring	High Speed Ring	20 November

Each race is two hours of length with the exception being the Super GP, lasting three hours and rewarding double points.