GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

The GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup is a sports car racing series for grand tourer cars, created by the SRO Motorsports Group and the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium with approval from the FIA. It uses race cars built to the FIA GT3 regulations, which are modified from production road cars, and aims to be an endurance championship for GT3 machinery in the way the FIA World Endurance Championship was for other classes. The series began in 2011 as the Blancpain Endurance Series, became the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in 2016, and took its present name for the 2020 season after the Blancpain sponsorship ended. Its calendar centres on three hour races at European circuits such as Monza and Silverstone, together with the Spa 24 Hours. Entries compete in classes split by driver ranking, including professional, mixed professional and amateur, and amateur line-ups, and performance balancing and handicap weights are used to keep the different cars competitive.