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class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>1990s – Rebirth and revival</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1990s_–_Rebirth_and_revival-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2000s_–_Resurgence_in_the_US" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2000s_–_Resurgence_in_the_US"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>2000s – Resurgence in the US</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2000s_–_Resurgence_in_the_US-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2010s_–_Reformatting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2010s_–_Reformatting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>2010s – Reformatting</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010s_–_Reformatting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Types_of_cars" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Types_of_cars"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Types of cars</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Types_of_cars-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Types of cars subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Types_of_cars-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sports_prototype" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports_prototype"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Sports prototype</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports_prototype-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Grand_Touring_car" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Grand_Touring_car"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Grand Touring car</span> 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href="/wiki/Sports_governing_body" title="Sports governing body">governing body</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Automobile_Club_de_l%27Ouest" title="Automobile Club de l'Ouest">ACO</a> (1923–present)<br /><a href="/wiki/FIA" class="mw-redirect" title="FIA">FIA</a> (2012–present)<br /><a href="/wiki/International_Motor_Sports_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="International Motor Sports Association">IMSA</a> (1969–present)<br /><a href="/wiki/Grand-Am_Road_Racing" title="Grand-Am Road Racing">GARRA</a> (2000–2013)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#eee;">Characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Contact</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Team members</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;"><a href="/wiki/Mixed-sex_sports" title="Mixed-sex sports">Mixed-sex</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Outdoor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Venue</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Road and street courses (Oval minority)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sports car racing</b> is a form of <a href="/wiki/Motorsport" title="Motorsport">motorsport</a> <a href="/wiki/Road_racing" title="Road racing">road racing</a> which utilises <a href="/wiki/Sports_car" title="Sports car">sports cars</a> that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be either purpose-built <a href="/wiki/Sports_prototype" title="Sports prototype">sports prototypes</a> which are the highest level in sports car racing or <a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">grand tourers</a> (GT cars) based on road-going models and therefore, in general, not as fast as sports prototypes. Sports car racing is one of the main types of circuit <a href="/wiki/Auto_racing" title="Auto racing">auto racing</a>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Open-wheel_racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-wheel racing">open-wheel racing</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">Formula One</a>, <a href="/wiki/IndyCar_Series" title="IndyCar Series">IndyCar Series</a> and <a href="/wiki/Super_Formula_Championship" title="Super Formula Championship">Super Formula Championship</a>), <a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">touring car racing</a> (such as the <a href="/wiki/British_Touring_Car_Championship" title="British Touring Car Championship">British Touring Car Championship</a>, which is based on 'saloon cars' as opposed to the 'exotics' seen in sports cars. <a href="/wiki/Supercars_Championship" title="Supercars Championship">Supercars Championship</a>, is an Production Touring Car Racing specs consists with 5-litre V8 Engine and the fastest touring car racing in the world) and <a href="/wiki/Stock_car_racing" title="Stock car racing">stock car racing</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a>). Sports car races are often, though not always, <a href="/wiki/Endurance_racing_(motorsport)" title="Endurance racing (motorsport)">endurance races</a> that are run over particularly long distances or large amounts of time, resulting in a larger emphasis on the reliability and efficiency of the car and its drivers as opposed to outright car performance or driver skills. The <a href="/wiki/FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="FIA World Endurance Championship">FIA World Endurance Championship</a> is an example of one of the best known sports car racing series. </p><p>A type of hybrid between the purism of <a href="/wiki/Open-wheeler" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-wheeler">open-wheelers</a> and the familiarity of touring car racing, this style is often best associated with the annual <a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="24 Hours of Le Mans">24 Hours of Le Mans</a> endurance race. First run in 1923, Le Mans is one of the oldest motor races still in existence.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other classic but now defunct sports car races include the Italian classics, the <a href="/wiki/Targa_Florio" title="Targa Florio">Targa Florio</a> (1906–1977) and <a href="/wiki/Mille_Miglia" title="Mille Miglia">Mille Miglia</a> (1927–1957), and the Mexican <a href="/wiki/Carrera_Panamericana" title="Carrera Panamericana">Carrera Panamericana</a> (1950–1954). Most top-class sports car races emphasise endurance (generally between 6 and 24 hours), reliability, and strategy, over pure speed. Longer races usually involve complex pit strategy and regular driver changes. As a result, sports car racing is seen more as a team endeavour than an individual sport, with team managers such as <a href="/wiki/John_Wyer" title="John Wyer">John Wyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Walkinshaw" title="Tom Walkinshaw">Tom Walkinshaw</a>, driver-turned-constructor <a href="/wiki/Henri_Pescarolo" title="Henri Pescarolo">Henri Pescarolo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sauber" title="Peter Sauber">Peter Sauber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reinhold_Joest" title="Reinhold Joest">Reinhold Joest</a> becoming almost as famous as some of their drivers. </p><p>The prestige of storied marques such as <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Audi" title="Audi">Audi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chevrolet" title="Chevrolet">Chevrolet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ferrari" title="Ferrari">Ferrari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaguar (car)">Jaguar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bentley" title="Bentley">Bentley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin" title="Aston Martin">Aston Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lotus_Cars" title="Lotus Cars">Lotus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maserati" title="Maserati">Maserati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lamborghini" title="Lamborghini">Lamborghini</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alfa_Romeo" title="Alfa Romeo">Alfa Romeo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancia" title="Lancia">Lancia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/BMW" title="BMW">BMW</a> is built in part upon success in sports car racing. These makers' top road cars have often been very similar both in engineering and styling to those raced. This close association with the 'exotic' nature of the cars serves as a useful distinction between sports car racing and touring cars.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/12_Hours_of_Sebring" title="12 Hours of Sebring">12 Hours of Sebring</a>, <a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Daytona" title="24 Hours of Daytona">24 Hours of Daytona</a>, and 24 Hours of Le Mans have in the past been considered the <a href="/wiki/Endurance_racing_(motorsport)#Triple_Crown" title="Endurance racing (motorsport)">Triple Crown</a> of <a href="/wiki/Endurance_racing_(motorsport)#Automobile_endurance_racing" title="Endurance racing (motorsport)">endurance car racing</a>. And also the additional of <a href="/wiki/Bathurst_12_Hour" title="Bathurst 12 Hour">Bathurst 12 Hour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spa_24_Hours" title="Spa 24 Hours">Spa 24 Hours</a>, <a href="/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_24_Hours" title="Nürburgring 24 Hours">Nürburgring 24 Hours</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suzuka_1000km" class="mw-redirect" title="Suzuka 1000km">Suzuka 1000km</a> are considered the Crown Jewel of Endurance race. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evolution">Evolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Evolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> According to historian <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hough" title="Richard Hough">Richard Hough</a>, "It is obviously impossible to distinguish between the designers of <a href="/wiki/Sports_car" title="Sports car">sports cars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_motor_racing" title="Grand Prix motor racing">Grand Prix</a> machines during the pre-1914 period. The late <a href="/w/index.php?title=Georges_Faroux&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georges Faroux (page does not exist)">Georges Faroux</a> contended that sports-car racing was not born until the <a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="24 Hours of Le Mans">first 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1923</a>, and while as a joint-creator of that race he may have been prejudiced in his opinion, it is certainly true that sports-car racing as it was known after 1919 did not exist before the First World War."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg/220px-NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg/330px-NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg/440px-NW_Rennzweier_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>1900 <a href="/wiki/NW_Rennzweier" title="NW Rennzweier">NW Rennzweier</a> (<i>The Double Racer</i>)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg/220px-1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg/330px-1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg/440px-1926_Bentley_Le_Mans_3_Litre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4271" data-file-height="3719" /></a><figcaption>1926 <a href="/wiki/Bentley_3_Litre" title="Bentley 3 Litre">Bentley 3 Litre</a> Le Mans</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1920s, the cars used in <a href="/wiki/Endurance_racing_(motorsport)" title="Endurance racing (motorsport)">endurance racing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_motor_racing" title="Grand Prix motor racing">Grand Prix</a> were still basically identical, with fenders and two seats, to carry a mechanic if necessary or permitted. Cars such as the <a href="/wiki/Bugatti_Type_35" title="Bugatti Type 35">Bugatti Type 35</a> were almost equally at home in Grands Prix and endurance events, but specialisation gradually started to differentiate the sports-racer from the Grand Prix car. The legendary <a href="/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Tipo_A" title="Alfa Romeo Tipo A">Alfa Romeo Tipo A</a> <a href="/wiki/Monoposto" class="mw-redirect" title="Monoposto">Monoposto</a> started the evolution of the true single-seater in the early 1930s; the Grand Prix racer and its miniature <a href="/wiki/Voiturette" title="Voiturette">voiturette</a> offspring rapidly evolved into high performance single seaters optimised for relatively short races, by dropping fenders and the second seat. During the later 1930s, French constructors, unable to keep up with the progress of the <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Auto-Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Auto-Union">Auto-Union</a> cars in GP racing, withdrew into primarily domestic competition with large-capacity sports cars – marques such as <a href="/wiki/Delahaye" title="Delahaye">Delahaye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Talbot" title="Talbot">Talbot</a> and the later Bugattis were locally prominent. </p><p>Similarly, through the 1920s and 1930s the road-going sports/GT car started to emerge as distinct from fast tourers (Le Mans had originally been a race for <a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">touring cars</a>) and sports cars, whether descended from primarily road-going vehicles or developed from pure-bred racing cars came to dominate races such as Le Mans and the <a href="/wiki/Mille_Miglia" title="Mille Miglia">Mille Miglia</a>. </p><p>In open-road endurance races across Europe such as the <a href="/wiki/Mille_Miglia" title="Mille Miglia">Mille Miglia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tour_de_France_automobile" class="mw-redirect" title="Tour de France automobile">Tour de France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Targa_Florio" title="Targa Florio">Targa Florio</a>, which were often run on dusty roads, the need for fenders and a mechanic or navigator was still there. As mainly Italian cars and races defined the genre, the category came to be known as <a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">Gran Turismo</a> (particularly in the 1950s),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as long distances had to be travelled, rather than running around on short circuits only. Reliability and some basic comfort were necessary in order to endure the task. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-war_revival">Post-war revival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-war revival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg/220px-Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg/330px-Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg/440px-Jaguar_XKD_606_1956.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2580" data-file-height="1932" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/1957_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="1957 24 Hours of Le Mans">1957 24 Hours of Le Mans</a> was won in a <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_XKD" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaguar XKD">Jaguar XKD</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, sports car racing emerged as a distinct form of racing with its own classic races, and, from 1953, its own <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_de_l%27Automobile" title="Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile">FIA</a> sanctioned <a href="/wiki/World_Sportscar_Championship" title="World Sportscar Championship">World Sportscar Championship</a>. In the 1950s, sports car racing was regarded as almost as important as Grand Prix competition, with major marques like <a href="/wiki/Ferrari" title="Ferrari">Ferrari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maserati" title="Maserati">Maserati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaguar (car)">Jaguar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin" title="Aston Martin">Aston Martin</a> investing much effort in their works programmes and supplying cars to customers; sports racers lost their close relationship to road-going sports cars in the 1950s and the major races were contested by dedicated competition cars such as the Jaguar C and D types, the Mercedes 300SLR, Maserati 300S, Aston Martin DBR1 and assorted Ferraris including the first Testa Rossas. Top Grand Prix drivers also competed regularly in sports car racing. After major accidents at the <a href="/wiki/1955_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="1955 24 Hours of Le Mans">1955 24 Hours of Le Mans</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1957_Mille_Miglia" title="1957 Mille Miglia">1957 Mille Miglia</a> the power of sports cars was curbed with a 3-litre engine capacity limit applied to them in the World Championship from 1958. From 1962 sports cars temporarily took a back seat to GT cars with the FIA replacing the World Championship for Sports Cars with the International Championship for GT Manufacturers.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Growth_at_a_national_level">Growth at a national level</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Growth at a national level"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In national rather than international racing, sports car competition in the 1950s and early 1960s tended to reflect what was locally popular, with the cars that were successful locally often influencing each nation's approach to competing on the international stage. </p><p>In the US, imported Italian, German and British cars battled local hybrids, with initially very distinct East and West Coast scenes; these gradually converged and a number of classic races and important teams emerged including <a href="/wiki/Camoradi" class="mw-redirect" title="Camoradi">Camoradi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Briggs_Cunningham" title="Briggs Cunningham">Briggs Cunningham</a> and so on. The US scene tended to feature small <a href="/wiki/MG_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="MG (car)">MG</a> and <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a> cars in the smaller classes, and imported Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, <a href="/wiki/Allard_Motor_Company" title="Allard Motor Company">Allard</a> and Ferrari cars in the larger classes. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg/220px-1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg/330px-1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg/440px-1971_McLaren_M8E_Laguna_Seca.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1427" data-file-height="791" /></a><figcaption>The McLaren M8E that was driven by <a href="/wiki/Vic_Elford" title="Vic Elford">Vic Elford</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1971_Canadian-American_Challenge_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="1971 Canadian-American Challenge Cup">1971 Canadian-American Challenge Cup</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A breed of powerful hybrids appeared in the 50s and 60s and raced on both sides of the Atlantic, featuring European chassis and large American engines – from the early <a href="/wiki/Allard_Motor_Company" title="Allard Motor Company">Allard</a> cars via hybrids such as <a href="/wiki/Lotus_19" title="Lotus 19">Lotus 19s</a> fitted with large engines through to the <a href="/wiki/AC_Cobra" title="AC Cobra">AC Cobra</a>. The combination of mostly British chassis and American V8 engines gave rise to the popular and spectacular <a href="/wiki/Can-Am" title="Can-Am">Can-Am</a> series in the 1960s and 1970s. </p><p>In Britain 2-litre sports cars were initially popular (the Bristol engine being readily available and cheap), subsequently 1100 cc sports racers became a very popular category for young drivers (effectively supplanting 500 cc F3), with <a href="/wiki/Lola_Cars" title="Lola Cars">Lola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Team_Lotus" title="Team Lotus">Lotus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cooper_Car_Company" title="Cooper Car Company">Cooper</a> and others being very competitive, although at the other end of the scale in the early to mid-1960s the national sports racing scene also attracted sophisticated GTs and later a crop of large-engined "big bangers" the technology of which largely gave rise to <a href="/wiki/Can-Am" title="Can-Am">Can-Am</a> but soon died out. <a href="/wiki/Clubmans" class="mw-redirect" title="Clubmans">Clubmans</a> provided much entertainment at club-racing level from the 1960s into the 1990s and John Webb revived interest in big sports prototypes with <a href="/wiki/Thundersports" class="mw-redirect" title="Thundersports">Thundersports</a> in the 1980s. There was even enough interest in <a href="/wiki/Group_C" title="Group C">Group C</a> to sustain a C2 championship for a few years; at 'club' level Modified Sports Car ("ModSports") and Production Sports Car ("ProdSports") races remained a feature of most British race meetings into the 1980s, evolving into a "Special GT" series that was essentially <a href="/wiki/Formula_Libre" title="Formula Libre">Formula Libre</a> for sports or saloon cars. After a relative period of decline in the 1980s a <a href="/wiki/British_GT_Championship" title="British GT Championship">British GT Championship</a> emerged in the mid-90s. </p><p>Italy found itself with both grassroots racing with a plethora of <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a> based specials (often termed "etceterinis") and small <a href="/wiki/Alfa_Romeo" title="Alfa Romeo">Alfa Romeos</a>, and exotica such as Maserati and Ferrari – who also sold cars to domestic customers as well as racing on the world stage. Road races such as the <a href="/wiki/Mille_Miglia" title="Mille Miglia">Mille Miglia</a> included everything from stock touring cars to World Championship contenders. The Mille Miglia was the largest sporting event in Italy until a fatal accident caused its demise in 1957. The <a href="/wiki/Targa_Florio" title="Targa Florio">Targa Florio</a>, another tough road race, remained part of the world championship until the 1970s and remained as a local race for many years afterwards. </p><p>As the French car industry switched from making large powerful cars to small utilitarian ones, French sports cars of the 1950s and early 1960s tended to be small-capacity and highly aerodynamic (often based on <a href="/wiki/Panhard" title="Panhard">Panhard</a> or <a href="/wiki/Renault" title="Renault">Renault</a> components), aimed at winning the "Index of Performance" at Le Mans and Reims and triumphing in handicap races. Between the late 1960s and late 1970s, <a href="/wiki/Matra" title="Matra">Matra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Renault" title="Renault">Renault</a> made significant and successful efforts to win at Le Mans. </p><p>In Germany, domestic production based racing was largely dominated by <a href="/wiki/BMW" title="BMW">BMW</a>, <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a>, although sports car/GT racing gradually became eclipsed by touring cars and the initially sports car based <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Rennsport_Meisterschaft" title="Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft">Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft</a> gradually evolved into the <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen_Meisterschaft" title="Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft">Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft</a>. Porsche started to evolve a line of sports prototypes from the late 1950s; noted for their toughness and reliability they started to win in races of attrition such as the <a href="/wiki/Targa_Florio" title="Targa Florio">Targa Florio</a> and as they grew bigger (via the <a href="/wiki/Porsche_910" title="Porsche 910">Porsche 910</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Porsche_908" title="Porsche 908">Porsche 908</a> and finally the <a href="/wiki/Porsche_917" title="Porsche 917">Porsche 917</a>) the Stuttgart marque became first a competitor for overall wins and then came to dominate sports car racing – both they and Mercedes have made intermittent returns to the top level of the sport through the 1970s, 80s, 90s and 2010s. </p><p>Sports car racing has intermittently been popular in Japan – in the 1960s small-capacity sports racers and even a local version of the Group 7 cars as raced in the <a href="/wiki/Canadian-American_Challenge_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian-American Challenge Cup">Canadian-American Challenge Cup</a> were popular; a healthy local sports prototype championship ran until the early 1990s and now the <a href="/wiki/Super_GT" title="Super GT">Super GT</a> series provides high-budget exposure to manufacturers, with many international drivers appearing. The Japanese manufacturers have also been frequent visitors to the US sports car scene (<a href="/wiki/Nissan" title="Nissan">Nissan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toyota" title="Toyota">Toyota</a> in particular during the heyday of IMSA) and to the European scene, in particular Le Mans, where despite many years of trying by all the main Japanese marques the only victory to have been scored by a Japanese marque was by <a href="/wiki/Mazda" title="Mazda">Mazda</a> in 1991, until 2018 when Toyota scored a first and second-place finish. Toyota followed this with another 1-2 finish in 2019. <span class="anchor" id="Prototype"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s_and_1970s_–_Evolution,_rise,_and_decline"><span id="1960s_and_1970s_.E2.80.93_Evolution.2C_rise.2C_and_decline"></span>1960s and 1970s – Evolution, rise, and decline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1960s and 1970s – Evolution, rise, and decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg/220px-2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg/330px-2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg/440px-2006FOS_1970Porsche917KGulf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1334" /></a><figcaption>An iconic 1970 <a href="/wiki/Porsche_917" title="Porsche 917">Porsche 917</a> at the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Goodwood_Festival_of_Speed" title="Goodwood Festival of Speed">Goodwood Festival of Speed</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Powerful prototypes (effectively pure-bred two-seater racing cars with no real link to production vehicles) started to appear as the 1960s progressed, with worldwide battles between Ferrari, Ford, Porsche, Lotus, Alfa Romeo and <a href="/wiki/Matra" title="Matra">Matra</a> as well as other more specialist marques running on into the early 1970s. The competition at Le Mans even made it to the movie screens, with <a href="/wiki/Steve_McQueen_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Steve McQueen (actor)">Steve McQueen</a>'s film <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_(film)" title="Le Mans (film)">Le Mans</a>. This era was seen by many as the highpoint of sports car racing, with the technology and performance of the cars comfortably in excess of what was seen in Formula 1. <a href="/wiki/Homologation" title="Homologation">Homologation</a> saw many out-and-out racing cars produced in sufficient quantities to see them classed as production vehicles; the FIA responded by placing more restrictions on even the allegedly production-based cars and placed draconian limits on the power available to prototypes – these prototypes of the late 1960s/early 1970s were comfortably quicker than contemporary Grand Prix machinery and for 1972 they were constrained to run much smaller engines to F1 rules, often de-tuned for endurance. <a href="/wiki/Group_4_(racing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group 4 (racing)">Group 4 Grand Touring Cars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Group_5_(racing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group 5 (racing)">Group 5 Special Production Cars</a> became the premier form of "sports car" racing from 1976, with prototypes going into a general decline apart from <a href="/wiki/Porsche_936" title="Porsche 936">Porsche 936</a> domination at Le Mans and a lower-key series of races for smaller two-litre <a href="/wiki/Group_6_(racing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group 6 (racing)">Group 6</a> prototypes. </p><p>A peculiarly American form of sports car racing was the <a href="/wiki/Can-Am" title="Can-Am">Can-Am</a> series, in which virtually unlimited sports prototypes competed in relatively short races. This series ran from 1966 to 1974 and was an expansion of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Road_Racing_Championship" title="United States Road Racing Championship">USRRC</a> that conformed to <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_de_l%27Automobile" title="Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile">FIA</a> Group 7 rules. The original <a href="/wiki/Can-Am" title="Can-Am">Can-Am</a> fell victim to rising costs and the <a href="/wiki/1973_energy_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="1973 energy crisis">energy crisis</a>. </p><p>The ACO, organisers of the Le Mans 24 Hours, attempted to come up with a formula that would encourage more prototypes back to the race but would also be relatively economical – their Grand Touring Prototype rules in the late 1970s, based on fuel consumption rules, gave rise to two different varieties of sports car racing that were widely held to be a high point in the history of the sport. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s_–_Group_C_and_IMSA_GTP"><span id="1980s_.E2.80.93_Group_C_and_IMSA_GTP"></span>1980s – Group C and IMSA GTP</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1980s – Group C and IMSA GTP"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Europe, the FIA adopted the ACO GTP rules virtually unchanged and sanctioned the <a href="/wiki/Group_C" title="Group C">Group C</a> World Endurance Championship (or <a href="/wiki/World_Sportscar_Championship" title="World Sportscar Championship">World Sportscar Championship</a>), featuring high-tech closed-cockpit prototypes from Porsche, Aston Martin, <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz" title="Mercedes-Benz">Mercedes-Benz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nissan" title="Nissan">Nissan</a>, Jaguar and others. In the US, the IMSA <a href="/wiki/IMSA_GT_Championship" title="IMSA GT Championship">Camel GTP</a> series boasted close competition between huge fields of manufacturer-backed teams and privateer squads – the cars were technically similar to Group Cs but used a sliding scale of weights and engine capacities to try to limit performance. Both Group C and GTP had secondary categories, respectively Group C2 and Camel Lights, for less powerful cars, targeting entries by small specialist constructors or serious amateur teams. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gtp_sports_cars.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Gtp_sports_cars.jpg/220px-Gtp_sports_cars.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Gtp_sports_cars.jpg/330px-Gtp_sports_cars.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Gtp_sports_cars.jpg/440px-Gtp_sports_cars.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2328" data-file-height="2574" /></a><figcaption>1991 IMSA GTP</figcaption></figure> <p>The FIA attempted to make Group C into a virtual "two seater Grand Prix" format in the early 1990s, with engine rules in common with F1, short race distances, and a schedule dovetailing with that of the F1 rounds. This drove up costs and drove away entrants and crowds, and by 1993 prototype racing was dead in Europe, with the <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a>, Jaguar, <a href="/wiki/Toyota" title="Toyota">Toyota</a> and Mercedes-Benz teams all having withdrawn. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s_–_Rebirth_and_revival"><span id="1990s_.E2.80.93_Rebirth_and_revival"></span>1990s – Rebirth and revival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1990s – Rebirth and revival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In an attempt to provide a top-class endurance racing series to replace the WSPC, a number of GT series sprung up at national and European level, with the <a href="/wiki/BPR_Global_GT_Series" title="BPR Global GT Series">BPR</a> series eventually evolving into the <a href="/wiki/FIA_GT_Championship" title="FIA GT Championship">FIA GT Championship</a>. IMSA GTP continued for a few more years but was replaced by a series for <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototypes" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Mans Prototypes">World Sports Cars</a> – relatively simple open-top prototypes – which gave rise to cars such as the <a href="/wiki/Ferrari_333SP" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferrari 333SP">Ferrari 333SP</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Riley_Technologies" title="Riley Technologies">Riley & Scott</a> Mk 3, supported by GTs. As the 1990s progressed, these prototypes and others like them started to be raced in Europe and an FIA Sports Car series evolved for them. </p><p>Since the demise of Group C (where Japan and Germany both had successful series of their own) Japan has largely gone its own way in sports car racing; the <a href="/wiki/Super_GT" title="Super GT">Super GT</a> series is for very highly modified production-based cars; although prototypes are slowly returning to Japanese racing in the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Le_Mans_Challenge" title="Japan Le Mans Challenge">Japan Le Mans Challenge</a> many of these 'prototypes' are little more than rebodied Formula 3 cars (although there has been a long Japanese tradition of such hybrids; a <a href="/wiki/Fuji_Grand_Champion_Series" title="Fuji Grand Champion Series">Grand Champion</a> series ran for many years with rebodied <a href="/wiki/Formula_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Formula 2">Formula 2</a> and <a href="/wiki/Formula_3000" title="Formula 3000">Formula 3000</a> cars, rather similar to the second incarnation of <a href="/wiki/Can-Am" title="Can-Am">Can-Am</a>). </p><p>In the US, however, road racing actually saw a decline. The IMSA GT Championship had been prototype-based since 1983, with less emphasis on production cars. NASCAR was becoming increasingly dominant, and the IndyCar Series' split from CART in 1996 put more emphasis on ovals regarding domestic open-wheel racing. Also contributing to the decline was the retirement of <a href="/wiki/Mario_Andretti" title="Mario Andretti">Mario Andretti</a> from Formula One. It would be over a decade before another American driver would join Formula One, viz. <a href="/wiki/Scott_Speed" title="Scott Speed">Scott Speed</a>, although Speed was ultimately unsuccessful and eventually joined NASCAR himself. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s_–_Resurgence_in_the_US"><span id="2000s_.E2.80.93_Resurgence_in_the_US"></span>2000s – Resurgence in the US</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2000s – Resurgence in the US"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg/220px-1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg/330px-1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg/440px-1_and_2_Audi_R8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1602" data-file-height="1282" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/2005_Grand_Prix_of_Atlanta" title="2005 Grand Prix of Atlanta">2005 Grand Prix of Atlanta</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The debut of the <a href="/wiki/Speed_(TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Speed (TV channel)">SpeedVision</a> television network brought a resurgence of interest in sports car racing in the US, with the network originally showing a large amount of sports car racing and sports car–related programming before being replaced by Fox Sports. </p><p>The IMSA GT Series evolved into the <a href="/wiki/American_Le_Mans_Series" title="American Le Mans Series">American Le Mans Series</a>; the European races eventually became the closely related <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Mans Series">Le Mans Series</a>, both of which mix prototypes and GTs; the FIA remains more interested in its own GT and GT3 championships, with the ACO's rules the basis for the LMS and ALMS. The <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype" title="Le Mans Prototype">Le Mans Prototype</a> is somewhat reminiscent of the old Can Am prototype. </p><p>Further splits in the American scene saw the <a href="/wiki/Grand-Am_Road_Racing" title="Grand-Am Road Racing">Grand American Road Racing Association</a> form a separate series, the <a href="/wiki/Rolex_Sports_Car_Series" title="Rolex Sports Car Series">Rolex Sports Car Series</a>, with its own GT and prototype rules aimed at providing cheaper, lower-cost racing for independent teams. Grand Am's <a href="/wiki/Continental_Tire_Sports_Car_Challenge" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge">Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge</a>, a support series for the Rolex Series, provides a similar series to the old Trans Am Series, mixing conventional sports cars and touring cars. Due to Grand Am's affiliation with NASCAR, many NASCAR drivers occasionally participate in the Rolex Sports Car Series. <a href="/wiki/Max_Papis" title="Max Papis">Max Papis</a> is a notable example in that he was a road racer prior to his tenure in the Sprint Cup Series. Many of these drivers only participate in the 24 Hours of Daytona. </p><p>The original <a href="/wiki/Trans-Am_Series" title="Trans-Am Series">Trans-Am Series</a> dissolved in 2006, but returned to action in 2009 with tube frame TA1 and TA2 divisions racing with production-based TA3-American and TA3-International divisions. In addition, the SCCA continues to provide a major support series for Trans-Am. This series, known as the <a href="/wiki/Pirelli_World_Challenge" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirelli World Challenge">SCCA World Challenge</a>, consists of a one-hour race for each round, combining three classes: GT (<a href="/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette" title="Chevrolet Corvette">Chevrolet Corvette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB9" title="Aston Martin DB9">Aston Martin DB9</a>, etc.), "GTS" (<a href="/wiki/Acura_TSX" title="Acura TSX">Acura TSX</a>, <a href="/wiki/BMW_3_Series" title="BMW 3 Series">BMW 3 Series</a>, etc.; replaced the former touring car class), and Touring Car (a "showroom stock" class similar to Grand Am's Continental Challenge). The Trans Am series returned in 2009, but has yet to establish a television contract. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010s_–_Reformatting"><span id="2010s_.E2.80.93_Reformatting"></span>2010s – Reformatting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2010s – Reformatting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg/220px-PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg/330px-PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg/440px-PLM_2011_Pace_Lap.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/2011_Petit_Le_Mans" title="2011 Petit Le Mans">2011 Petit Le Mans</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The 2010s have seen a major overhaul of sports car racing in the United States. The Pirelli World Challenge reformatted in 2010 to have a showroom stock touring car group comparable to that of the Continental Challenge's Grand Sport class, promoting its other touring car class to "GTS". This came after several years of the old TC class being an Acura-BMW-<a href="/wiki/Mazda" title="Mazda">Mazda</a> affair. For 2012, the series adopted a "B-spec" touring car class comparable to that of the Continental Challenge's Street Tuner class. </p><p>2010 also saw the introduction of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC) by the ACO, featuring events in America, Asia and Europe. This in turn led the ACO & FIA to come together to create the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) starting in 2012. This new series replaced the ILMC and was a spiritual successor to the former FIA World Sportscar Championship. </p><p>In 2012, the Rolex Sports Car Series overhauled its Daytona Prototype class, allowing for production-based designs. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg/220px-DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg/330px-DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg/440px-DP_01_Chip_Ganassi_Racing_Scott_Pruett_Memo_Rojas_Road_America_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1424" data-file-height="806" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Scott_Pruett" title="Scott Pruett">Scott Pruett</a> / Memo Rojas BMW Riley of <a href="/wiki/Chip_Ganassi_Racing" title="Chip Ganassi Racing">Chip Ganassi Racing</a> at <a href="/wiki/Road_America" title="Road America">Road America</a> during a <a href="/wiki/2012_Rolex_Sports_Car_Series" title="2012 Rolex Sports Car Series">2012 Rolex Sports Car Series</a> race</figcaption></figure> <p>The ALMS's new LMP/LMC format, however, has not held up. The prototype classes split again in 2011, with LMP1 having three cars and LMP2 having one. A new "GT Pro Am" class was added. Initially, this format was only to be used in endurance races, but was eventually applied to all races. For 2012, only a handful of LMPs are being entered, with almost all of them being powered by Japanese manufacturers (<a href="/wiki/Nissan" title="Nissan">Nissan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honda" title="Honda">Honda</a>, etc.). The British manufacturer <a href="/wiki/Morgan_(automobile)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morgan (automobile)">Morgan</a> has entered a <a href="/wiki/Judd_(engine)" title="Judd (engine)">Judd</a>-powered LMP. <a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin_Racing" title="Aston Martin Racing">Aston Martin Racing</a>, who for several years had entered an LMP, has returned to GT for 2012. </p><p>The reformatted Trans-Am Series remained stagnant, being heavily overshadowed by the SCCA's World Challenge, and failing to garner a television contract. A major factor in this is the fact that Trans Am's teams still use vehicles dating back to 1999. In most other series, teams tended to update their vehicles every few years or so (examples include the 2005 vs. 2010 Mustangs in the Continental Challenge and the two different generations of <a href="/wiki/Mazda" title="Mazda">Mazda</a> RX-8 in the Rolex Series). </p><p>Other television changes include Speed Channel losing the rights to almost every series. The World Challenge was transferred to Versus, while the ALMS was transferred to an ESPN/ABC partnership. ALMS races are shown live online with a telecast the following day (although Speed still has the rights to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is still televised live). For 2012, some races will be televised live. Speed, having a partnership with NASCAR, still has exclusive rights to the NASCAR-owned Grand Am series. </p><p>The ALMS has now introduced "GTE-PRO" and "GTE-AM" for endurance races. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg/220px-JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg/330px-JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg/440px-JDC-Miller_Motorsports_Oreca_07_Petit_Le_Mans.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4928" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Oreca_07" title="Oreca 07">Oreca 07</a> of JDC-Miller Motorsports in <a href="/wiki/2017_Petit_Le_Mans" title="2017 Petit Le Mans">2017 Petit Le Mans</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>In 2014, American Le Mans Series and Rolex Sports Car Series were merged into <a href="/wiki/WeatherTech_SportsCar_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="WeatherTech SportsCar Championship">United SportsCar Championship</a>, with IMSA as its sanctioning body. <a href="/wiki/Fox_Sports_1" title="Fox Sports 1">Fox Sports 1</a> (successor of Speed Channel) was returned as main broadcaster of the unified series.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Daytona Prototype was replaced in 2017 by Daytona Prototype International (DPi), which based on the four <a href="/wiki/Automobile_Club_de_l%27Ouest" title="Automobile Club de l'Ouest">ACO</a> homologated <a href="/wiki/LMP2" class="mw-redirect" title="LMP2">LMP2</a> chassis made by <a href="/wiki/Dallara" title="Dallara">Dallara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Onroak_Automotive" class="mw-redirect" title="Onroak Automotive">Onroak (Ligier)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oreca" title="Oreca">Oreca</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Riley_Technologies" title="Riley Technologies">Riley</a>-<a href="/wiki/Multimatic_Motorsports" title="Multimatic Motorsports">Multimatic</a>, with brand bodywork and homologated engines. Manufacturers are asked to partner with a privateer team, and each car will sport manufacturer bodywork, corresponding to their brand-identity. These rules are made to both control costs and attract manufacturers to the series.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, <a href="/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Ratel_Organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Stéphane Ratel Organisation">SRO Motorsports Group</a> has taken over the management of <a href="/wiki/Pirelli_World_Challenge" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirelli World Challenge">Pirelli World Challenge</a>, with <a href="/wiki/United_States_Auto_Club" title="United States Auto Club">USAC</a> as its sanctioning body since 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 2019, <a href="/wiki/NBC_Sports" title="NBC Sports">NBC Sports</a> will be replacing Fox Sports as main broadcaster of <a href="/wiki/WeatherTech_SportsCar_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="WeatherTech SportsCar Championship">WeatherTech SportsCar Championship</a> with six-year broadcasting rights.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_of_cars">Types of cars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Types of cars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are many kinds of sports cars that compete, but they can be broadly broken down into two main categories: <a href="/wiki/Sports_prototype" title="Sports prototype">Sports prototypes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">Grand Touring</a> (GT) cars. These two categories (or "classes") are often mixed together in a single race, such as in the <a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="24 Hours of Le Mans">24 Hours of Le Mans</a>. In mixed-class races, an overall winner is awarded, though individual class winners are often recognised as well. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports_prototype">Sports prototype</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sports prototype"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ALMS_Prototypes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/ALMS_Prototypes.jpg/200px-ALMS_Prototypes.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/ALMS_Prototypes.jpg/300px-ALMS_Prototypes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/ALMS_Prototypes.jpg/400px-ALMS_Prototypes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3052" data-file-height="2016" /></a><figcaption>A group of modern <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype" title="Le Mans Prototype">Le Mans Prototypes</a> competing in the <a href="/wiki/American_Le_Mans_Series" title="American Le Mans Series">American Le Mans Series</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Sports prototype is the name given to a type of car used in sports car racing and is effectively the next automotive design and technological step-up from road-going sports cars and are, along with open-wheel cars, the pinnacle of racing car design. </p><p>The highest level in sports car racing, these cars are purpose-built racing cars with enclosed wheels, and either open or closed cockpits. Ever since the <a href="/wiki/World_Sportscar_Championship" title="World Sportscar Championship">World Sportscar Championship</a> was conceived, there have been various regulations regarding bodywork, engine style and size, tyres and aerodynamics to which these cars must be built. Sports prototypes may be (and often are) one-of-a-kind machines, and need bear no relation to any road-going vehicle, although during the 1990s, some manufacturers exploited a loophole in the FIA and ACO rules. As a result, some cars racing in the GT category did pass as true sports prototypes, in turn leading to some road-going versions for homologation purposes. The Dauer-<a href="/wiki/Porsche_962" title="Porsche 962">Porsche 962</a>LM, <a href="/wiki/Porsche_911_GT1" title="Porsche 911 GT1">Porsche 911 GT1</a>-98, <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_CLK_GTR" title="Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR">Mercedes CLK-GTR</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toyota_GT-One" title="Toyota GT-One">Toyota GT-One</a> were prime examples of prototypes masquerading as GTs. </p><p>In simplistic terms, sports prototypes are two-seat racing cars with bodywork covering their wheels, and are as technically advanced and, depending on the regulations they are built to, as quick as or quicker than their single-seat counterparts. Although not widely known, sports-prototypes (along with Formula 1 cars) are responsible for introducing the most numbers of new technologies and ideas to motorsport, including rear-wings, ground effect 'venturi' tunnels, fan-assisted aerodynamics and dual-shift gearboxes. Some of these technologies eventually filter down to road cars. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Automobile_Club_de_l%27Ouest" title="Automobile Club de l'Ouest">ACO</a> regulations, two categories of sports prototypes are now recognised: P1 and P2. Cars competing in the P1 category must weigh no less than 900 kg and are limited to 6000 cc <a href="/wiki/Naturally_aspirated" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturally aspirated">naturally aspirated</a> and 4000 cc <a href="/wiki/Turbocharged" class="mw-redirect" title="Turbocharged">turbocharged</a> engines. 5500 cc turbo-<a href="/wiki/Diesel_engine" title="Diesel engine">Diesel</a> engines are also permitted in P1 – <a href="/wiki/Audi" title="Audi">Audi</a> scored Le Mans victories with such a car in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and <a href="/wiki/Peugeot" title="Peugeot">Peugeot</a> returned to racing in 2007 with a car with a similar powerplant (Peugeot 908). P2 cars can weigh much less — first 675 kg, then 750 kg and now 825 kg — but are restricted to 3400 cc V6 or V8 normally aspirated or 2000 cc turbocharged powerplants. In the European series in which endurance is a priority and P2s have been run largely by privateers, P2s have not challenged P1s for outright victories; in the <a href="/wiki/American_Le_Mans_Series" title="American Le Mans Series">American Le Mans Series</a> with generally shorter races P2 has become the most active prototype category with serious involvement from <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a> and <a href="/wiki/Acura" title="Acura">Acura</a> and whereas P2 in Europe tends to involve races of attrition, in the US series the P2s, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Porsche_RS_Spyder" title="Porsche RS Spyder">Porsche RS Spyder</a> are often quicker round a lap than P1s, with the Porsche having scored many overall victories against the Audis in P1. </p><p>Prototype rules for 2010 and beyond will encourage production-based engines (GT1 engines in LMP1, GT2 engines in LMP2) and rules to equalise the performance of petrol and diesel LMP1s are also being addressed. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Daytona_Prototype" title="Daytona Prototype">Daytona Prototypes</a> are a product of the Grand-Am <a href="/wiki/Rolex_Sports_Car_Series" title="Rolex Sports Car Series">Rolex Sports Car Series</a>, and offer a different interpretation of the prototype theme. DPs, as they are often called, are closed-cockpit, purpose-built racing machines which are less expensive and (deliberately) somewhat slower than Le Mans Prototypes, which were becoming dangerously quick on the Daytona oval and prohibitively expensive for smaller teams to run. Compared to the LMPs, DPs are severely limited in terms of approved technology; for instance, they are required to be constructed of steel tube frames with carbon-fibre skins, rather than being carbon-fibre monocoques, and must use production-based engines. In addition, contrary to their European counterparts who continuously alter and develop a vehicle to increase performance as a season progresses, DPs are restricted to their original conception of the car from the start of the season. For these reasons, the category being labeled as a "prototype" has occasionally been criticised as misleading and being more in line with traditional "spec" race series prevalent in the United States. The intention of the DP formula was to provide a class in which tight technical regulations encouraged close competition and where budget would be relatively unimportant. DP chassis are subject to a franchise-like approval system in which only approved constructors are eligible, with rules stability enforced for several years at a time, although this led in 2007 to established constructors like <a href="/wiki/Lola_Cars" title="Lola Cars">Lola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dallara" title="Dallara">Dallara</a> entering the 2008 series by taking over the rights of existing constructors (Multimatic and Doran respectively). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grand_Touring_car">Grand Touring car</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Grand Touring car"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler,_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler%2C_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg/220px-Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler%2C_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler%2C_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg/330px-Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler%2C_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler%2C_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg/440px-Corvette_Racing%27s_Chevrolet_Corvette_C7R_Marcel_F%C3%A4ssler%2C_Oliver_Gavin_and_Tommy_Milner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3874" data-file-height="2576" /></a><figcaption>No. 64 <a href="/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvette_C7.R" title="Chevrolet Corvette C7.R">Chevrolet Corvette C7.R</a> car running at the <a href="/wiki/2019_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="2019 24 Hours of Le Mans">2019 24 Hours of Le Mans</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Grand Touring (from the Italian <i><a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">Gran Turismo</a></i>) racing is the most common form of sports car racing, and is found all over the world, in both international and national series. Historically, Grand Touring cars had to be in series production, but in 1976 the class was split into production-based <a href="/wiki/Group_4_(racing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group 4 (racing)">Group 4 Grand Touring Cars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Group_5_(racing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Group 5 (racing)">Group 5 Special Production Cars</a>, the latter of which were essentially pure-bred racing cars with production-lookalike bodies. GT racing gradually fell into abeyance in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s, with silhouette cars continuing to race in <a href="/wiki/International_Motor_Sports_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="International Motor Sports Association">IMSA</a> races in the USA. When GT racing revived after the collapse of the World Sports Car Championship at the end of 1992, the lead in defining rules was taken by the ACO. Under the ACO rules, Grand Touring cars are divided into two categories, Grand Touring 1 (GT1, formerly GT) and Grand Touring 2 (GT2, formerly N-GT). As the name of the class implies, the exterior of the car closely resembles that of the production version, while the internal fittings may differ greatly. GT2 cars are very similar to the FIA GT2 classification, and are considered 'pure' GT cars; that is production exotic cars with relatively few internal modifications for racing. The <a href="/wiki/Porsche_911" title="Porsche 911">Porsche 911</a> is currently the most popular car in the GT2 class. 2009 will be the last run of the GT1 class as a result of budgeting issues. GT1 teams are currently enlisting to run their cars in the GT2 class next year. The <a href="/wiki/American_Le_Mans_Series" title="American Le Mans Series">American Le Mans Series</a> also runs a "GT-Challenge" class, which currently only uses <a href="/wiki/Porsche_911_GT3" title="Porsche 911 GT3">Porsche 911 GT3</a> Cups but will open to other cars next year. This category is designed for privateer and rookie teams as an easier way to enter the series. </p><p>For 2011, the ACO split GT2 into two categories, <b>GTE-Pro</b> (for all-professional teams with current-spec cars) and <b>GTE-Am</b> (for teams with one amateur and one professional per car using previous-spec cars), as a way to entice rookies to enter one of the three Le Mans Series. </p><p>FIA divides GT cars into four categories called GT1 (formerly GT), GT2 (formerly N-GT), GT3 (recently introduced) and GT4. The GT1 and GT2 divisions are very close to the ACO rules outlined above, and again some crossover racing does occur, particularly in the GT2 class. The GT3 class is relatively new and was introduced for 2006. These cars are closer to standard form than in GT2, and in most cases modifications are restricted to those found in one-make cups. GT4 is another new category for amateur and semi-pro drivers in production-based cars with very few racing modifications – for example, no aerodynamic aids or body modifications are permitted. All of the categories (with the exception of GT2) have their own championships/cups run by the FIA. Currently, GT2 is defunct in the FIA, and only runs in Le Mans Series/ALMS; however, the FIA has also announced that GT2 cars will be able to compete in the <a href="/wiki/FIA_GT1_World_Championship" title="FIA GT1 World Championship">FIA GT1 World Championship</a> in 2012 in a <b>World Class</b> along with GT3 cars. </p><p>Grand-Am has only one class for Grand Touring cars which allows production-based GT racers at a spec somewhere between FIA GT2 and GT3 in terms of modification (e.g. the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup) to compete with purpose-built tube-frame "silhouette" machines reminiscent of the former IMSA GTO/GTU classes. Grand-Am also runs various under-classes more reminiscent of GT4, though closer to factory cars. For 2012, GT3 cars will be allowed, with spec wings and splitters, as long as they pass a test at the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, thus allowing GT3 cars to run with few modifications relative to other series (NASCAR, the parent company of Grand-Am, does not permit anti-lock brakes or traction control to be used on Grand-Am GT cars). </p><p>As of 2012<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the four GT categories are in mixed health. <b>GT1</b> has been all but phased out with the removal of the class from the <a href="/wiki/FIA_GT1_World_Championship" title="FIA GT1 World Championship">FIA GT1 World Championship</a> in favor of GT3 cars, in turn leading to the outright discontinuation of the series. <b>GT2</b> is currently limited to certain series, including the <a href="/wiki/IMSA_SportsCar_Championship" title="IMSA SportsCar Championship">IMSA SportsCar Championship</a>, <a href="/wiki/European_Le_Mans_Series" title="European Le Mans Series">European Le Mans Series</a>, <a href="/wiki/FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="FIA World Endurance Championship">FIA World Endurance Championship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asian_Le_Mans_Series" title="Asian Le Mans Series">Asian Le Mans Series</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/International_GT_Open" title="International GT Open">International GT Open</a>. <b>GT3</b>, which has since emerged as the most popular of the GT classes, has seen widespread use in many international and regional series such as the <a href="/wiki/FIA_GT3_European_Championship" title="FIA GT3 European Championship">FIA GT3 European Championship</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Blancpain_Endurance_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Blancpain Endurance Series">Blancpain Endurance Series</a>, as well as most national series such as Germany's <a href="/wiki/ADAC_GT_Masters" title="ADAC GT Masters">ADAC GT Masters</a> and the <a href="/wiki/British_GT_Championship" title="British GT Championship">British GT Championship</a>. <b>GT4</b> has likely been phased out like GT1, with the removal of the category from the Blancpain Endurance Series and the cancellation of the <a href="/wiki/GT4_European_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="GT4 European Cup">GT4 European Cup</a> for 2012 due to issues regarding the organiser. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Technology_escalation_and_control">Technology escalation and control</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Technology escalation and control"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While GT cars are at least in theory based on road-going models, some GT1 cars in the mid to late 1990s were effectively purpose-built sports-prototypes which spawned exotic production cars with <a href="/wiki/Homologation" title="Homologation">homologation</a> production limits of 25 cars (for small-scale manufacturers, such as <a href="/wiki/Saleen" title="Saleen">Saleen</a>) or 100 cars (for major manufacturers like <a href="/wiki/Daimler_AG" class="mw-redirect" title="Daimler AG">Daimler AG</a>). </p><p>The original form of GT1 racing was intended for the purebred <a href="/wiki/Supercar" title="Supercar">supercars</a> and purpose-built race cars. Examples include the <a href="/wiki/McLaren_F1_GTR" title="McLaren F1 GTR">McLaren F1 GTR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ferrari_F40" title="Ferrari F40">Ferrari F40</a>, <a href="/wiki/Porsche_911_GT1" title="Porsche 911 GT1">Porsche 911 GT1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_CLK_GTR" title="Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR">Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toyota_GT-One" title="Toyota GT-One">Toyota GT-One</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nissan_R390" class="mw-redirect" title="Nissan R390">Nissan R390</a> – while the first two were a derivatives of road-going sports cars, the German and Japanese contenders were pure-bred racing cars – virtually sports prototypes. Rising costs coupled with declining entries led to the death of this class in 1998, and it was replaced by what was then called GT2 (by the FIA, which later evolved into the GT1) and <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype" title="Le Mans Prototype">Le Mans Prototype</a> (LMP, by the ACO). </p><p>This process was repeated in 2009 in response to cost increases in GT1 and GT2 racing, resulting in the abolition of both GT classes as they stood. Various proposals exist to control technology and costs, mainly by discontinuing the existing GT1 class and creating new class boundaries between current GT2, GT3 and GT4 cars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_divisions">Other divisions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sports car racing in general extends far beyond ACO and FIA rules, encompassing the <a href="/wiki/Grand-Am_Road_Racing" title="Grand-Am Road Racing">Grand-Am</a> professional series as well as amateur <a href="/wiki/Road_racing" title="Road racing">road racing</a> classes in the <a href="/wiki/Sports_Car_Club_of_America" title="Sports Car Club of America">Sports Car Club of America</a> in North America. </p><p>Amateur sports car racing throughout the United States is sanctioned by clubs such as the <a href="/wiki/Sports_Car_Club_of_America" title="Sports Car Club of America">Sports Car Club of America</a>. The SCCA's sports-racing classes include C and <a href="/wiki/D_Sports_Racing" title="D Sports Racing">D Sports Racing</a>, Sports 2000 and Spec Racer Ford, in descending order of speed and sophistication, as well as a number of production-based and one-make classes. </p><p>In Japan, the <a href="/wiki/Super_GT" title="Super GT">Super GT</a> series divides cars into two classes, called <b>GT500</b> and <b>GT300</b>. These cars are less restricted than their European and American counterparts, with cars often sporting tube frame clips and forced induction kits. Teams are also free to change engines with other models made by the manufacturer. The numbers in the classifications refer to the maximum power (in horsepower) available to each class; this is achieved through the use of engine restrictors. Proponents of the series claim that the Super GT cars are the fastest sports cars in the world, while critics deride the cars as being outside the limits of 'acceptable' modifications. In recent years however, rule changes in both GT500 and GT1 (aimed at eventually allowing both classes to compete with each other in the future) have brought the cars closer to each other, although GT500 cars still have a notable advantage in terms of aerodynamics and cornering performance (enough to compensate for GT1 cars greater power). </p><p>In Europe, although most national championships (<a href="/wiki/British_GT_Championship" title="British GT Championship">British</a>, <a href="/wiki/FFSA_GT_Championship" title="FFSA GT Championship">French</a>, <a href="/wiki/ADAC_GT_Masters" title="ADAC GT Masters">German</a> and the Spain-based <a href="/wiki/International_GT_Open" title="International GT Open">International GT Open</a>) run under FIA/ACO GT regulations with some modifications to ensure a more balanced competition and lower costs, some championships are open to non-homologated GT cars. The <a href="/wiki/Belcar" title="Belcar">Belcar</a> series in Belgium allows silhouettes and touring cars to race alongside GTs, while the <a href="/w/index.php?title=VdeV_Modern_Endurance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="VdeV Modern Endurance (page does not exist)">VdeV Modern Endurance</a> allows small prototypes from national championships such as the Norma, Centenari and <a href="/wiki/Radical_Sportscars" title="Radical Sportscars">Radical</a> to race alongside GT3-class cars. <a href="/wiki/Britcar" title="Britcar">Britcar</a> permits a wide range of touring and GT cars to compete in endurance races, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Britsports&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Britsports (page does not exist)">Britsports</a> permits various kinds of sports racing cars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_racing_series">Notable racing series</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notable racing series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_championships">World championships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: World championships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Current">Current</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Current"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="FIA World Endurance Championship">FIA World Endurance Championship</a> – In operation since <a href="/wiki/2012_FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="2012 FIA World Endurance Championship">2012</a>, the current auto racing World Championship for both <a href="/wiki/Sports_prototype" title="Sports prototype">Sports prototypes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">GT cars</a> organised by the <a href="/wiki/Automobile_Club_de_l%27Ouest" title="Automobile Club de l'Ouest">Automobile Club de l'Ouest</a> (ACO) and sanctioned by the <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_de_l%27Automobile" title="Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile">Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile</a> (FIA). The championship is considered a revival of the defunct <a href="/wiki/World_Sportscar_Championship" title="World Sportscar Championship">World Sportscar Championship</a> which ended in <a href="/wiki/1992_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1992 World Sportscar Championship">1992</a>. In <a href="/wiki/2012_FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="2012 FIA World Endurance Championship">2012</a>-<a href="/wiki/2016_FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="2016 FIA World Endurance Championship">2016</a> seasons the <i>World Cup for GT Manufacturer</i> was awarded to a winning manufacturer of GT cars, promoted to the <i>World GT Manufacturers' Championship</i> title since the <a href="/wiki/2017_FIA_World_Endurance_Championship" title="2017 FIA World Endurance Championship">2017</a> season.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Former">Former</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Former"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/World_Sportscar_Championship" title="World Sportscar Championship">World Sportscar Championship</a> – The first sports car racing world series run from <a href="/wiki/1953_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1953 World Sportscar Championship">1953</a> to <a href="/wiki/1992_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1992 World Sportscar Championship">1992</a>. Originally contested by Sports prototypes, GT cars and even Touring cars, towards its end it was restricted to Sports prototypes only. At various times, it was known as the <b>World Sportscar Championship</b>, <b>International Championship for GT Manufacturers</b>, <b>International Sports Car Championship</b>, <b>International Championship for Makes</b>, <b>World Championship for Makes</b>, <b>World Endurance Championship</b> and <b>World Sports Prototype Championship</b>. In <a href="/wiki/1953_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1953 World Sportscar Championship">1953</a>-<a href="/wiki/1984_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1984 World Sportscar Championship">1984</a> seasons titles were awarded to <i>manufacturers</i> of sports cars belonging to two main categories: Sports prototype (except of the <a href="/wiki/1978_World_Sportscar_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="1978 World Sportscar Championship">1978</a>-<a href="/wiki/1981_World_Sportscar_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="1981 World Sportscar Championship">1981</a> seasons) and GT car (except of the <a href="/wiki/1953_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1953 World Sportscar Championship">1953</a>-<a href="/wiki/1961_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1961 World Sportscar Championship">1961</a> and <a href="/wiki/1982_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1982 World Sportscar Championship">1982</a> seasons). In <a href="/wiki/1985_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1985 World Sportscar Championship">1985</a>-<a href="/wiki/1992_World_Sportscar_Championship" title="1992 World Sportscar Championship">1992</a> seasons titles were awarded only to <i>teams</i> entering Sports prototypes (instead of <i>manufacturers</i> of Sports prototypes), excluding <i>teams</i> entering GT cars.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIA_GT1_World_Championship" title="FIA GT1 World Championship">FIA GT1 World Championship</a> – A short-lived series for GT cars run from <a href="/wiki/2010_FIA_GT1_World_Championship" title="2010 FIA GT1 World Championship">2010</a> to <a href="/wiki/2012_FIA_GT1_World_Championship" title="2012 FIA GT1 World Championship">2012</a>, created by <a href="/wiki/SRO_Motorsports_Group" title="SRO Motorsports Group">Stéphane Ratel Organisation</a> (SRO) in an attempt to promote the <a href="/wiki/FIA_GT_Championship" title="FIA GT Championship">FIA GT Championship</a> to World Championship status.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_championships">International championships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: International championships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Porsche_Supercup" title="Porsche Supercup">Porsche Supercup</a> – One-make series for Porsche Carrera Cup cars, serving as a support series for the Formula One world championship. Predominantly European series, but has since also ventured into western Asia.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/24H_Series" title="24H Series">24H Series –</a> Endurance series for GT and Touring cars. Predominantly races in Europe and the Middle East, but has also gone to the United States.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Defunct">Defunct</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Defunct"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Le_Mans_Series" title="American Le Mans Series">American Le Mans Series</a> – Based on the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Run in the United States and Canada, although held events elsewhere, as far away as Australia. Emerged from the IMSA GT split, and essentially replaced IMSA GT. It lasted from 1999 to 2013 and merged into the United SportsCar Championship.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intercontinental_Le_Mans_Cup" title="Intercontinental Le Mans Cup">Intercontinental Le Mans Cup</a> – International championship, starting in 2010 and ending in 2011. Despite its international status, it was not considered an official World Championship because it was not organised by the FIA.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regional_championships">Regional championships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Regional championships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="North_America">North America</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: North America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/WeatherTech_SportsCar_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="WeatherTech SportsCar Championship">WeatherTech SportsCar Championship</a> – the current top-level North American sports car and GT series, founded following the merger of the <a href="/wiki/Rolex_Sports_Car_Series" title="Rolex Sports Car Series">Rolex Sports Car Series</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Le_Mans_Series" title="American Le Mans Series">American Le Mans Series</a>, with the first season held in 2014.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_America" title="GT World Challenge America">GT World Challenge America</a> – GT and <a href="/wiki/Touring_Car_Racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Touring Car Racing">Touring Car Racing</a> series in the US and Canada</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelin_Pilot_Challenge" title="Michelin Pilot Challenge">Michelin Pilot Challenge</a> – support/feeder series to the Rolex Sports Car Series and its successor WeatherTech SportsCar Championship; mixes GT and touring cars</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Am_Series" title="Trans-Am Series">Trans-Am Series</a> – Originally a touring car series incorporating some GT elements in later years but remained primarily for touring cars. Gradually evolved into a <a href="/wiki/Silhouette_racing_car" title="Silhouette racing car">silhouette racing car</a> series, mirroring NASCAR trends. Began in the 1960s was hugely popular during the <i>Pony car</i> era of <a href="/wiki/Muscle_cars" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscle cars">muscle cars</a> in the late 60s and early 70s, it folded in 2005. A new Muscle car series evolved in 2009.</li></ul> <p>Defunct </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IMSA_Prototype_Lites" class="mw-redirect" title="IMSA Prototype Lites">IMSA Prototype Lites</a> – Support series for the American Le Mans Series, formerly called "IMSA Lites". Single seat sports cars with motorcycle engines.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rolex_Sports_Car_Series" title="Rolex Sports Car Series">Rolex Sports Car Series</a> – Grand-Am's top-level US sports car series, emerged from the USRRC. Lasted from 2000 to 2013, merged into the United SportsCar Championship. Separate classes for Sports cars and GT cars.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Can-Am" title="Can-Am">Can-Am</a> – Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Prototype-based series which ran from 1966 to 1974 and in revised form from 1977 to 1986; revived in 1998 as a part of the USRRC)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=USERA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USERA (page does not exist)">USERA</a> – United States Endurance Racing Association – Pro-Am Endurance Championship in the United States</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMSA_GT_Championship" title="IMSA GT Championship">IMSA GT Championship</a> – lasted from 1971 to 1998 and replaced by ALMS and the Rolex Series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Road_Racing_Championship" title="United States Road Racing Championship">United States Road Racing Championship</a> – emerged from the IMSA GT split, became the Rolex Series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Race_of_Champions" title="International Race of Champions">International Race of Champions</a> – The popular IROC one-make series has been run in the United States, in later years predominately on oval for GT and Muscle cars.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Europe">Europe</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Le_Mans_Series" title="European Le Mans Series">European Le Mans Series</a> – Sister series to the ALMS, run mostly in Europe (formerly the ELMS).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelin_Le_Mans_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Michelin Le Mans Cup">Michelin Le Mans Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_Europe" title="GT World Challenge Europe">GT World Challenge Europe</a> – European Championship for GT3 cars, which replaced the <a href="/wiki/FIA_GT1_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="FIA GT1 Championship">FIA GT1 Championship</a> in 2013. Consists of <a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_Europe_Endurance_Cup" title="GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup">GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup</a> & <a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_Europe_Sprint_Cup" title="GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup">GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_GT_Open" title="International GT Open">International GT Open</a> – European Championship for GT2 and GT3 cars, founded in 2006.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT4_European_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="GT4 European Cup">GT4 European Cup</a> – A GT4 racing series, predominantly in Europe but some rounds elsewhere.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supercar_Challenge_(series)" title="Supercar Challenge (series)">Supercar Challenge series –</a> Formerly known as the Dutch Supercar Challenge, Sportscar series held in Benelux region since 2001.</li></ul> <p>Defunct </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIA_Sportscar_Championship" title="FIA Sportscar Championship">FIA Sportscar Championship</a> – FIA's now-defunct European Prototype racing series – most races ended up part of the European Le Mans Series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIA_GT_Championship" title="FIA GT Championship">FIA GT Championship</a> – European Championship organised by FIA for GT1 and GT2 cars, ran from 1997 to 2009.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIA_GT3_European_Championship" title="FIA GT3 European Championship">FIA GT3 European Championship</a> – GT3 European racing series, predominantly in Europe but some rounds elsewhere.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Asia-Pacific">Asia-Pacific</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Asia-Pacific"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asian_Le_Mans_Series" title="Asian Le Mans Series">Asian Le Mans Series</a> – Series running <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype#LMP2" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype#LMP3" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP3</a> and <a href="/wiki/Group_GT3" title="Group GT3">GT3</a> cars.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_Asia" title="GT World Challenge Asia">GT World Challenge Asia</a> – Asian GT3 Championship founded in 2009, that replaced the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Asia_GT_Challenge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asia GT Challenge (page does not exist)">Asia GT Challenge</a> and <a href="/wiki/GT_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="GT Asia">GT Asia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_GT" title="Super GT">Super GT</a> – Japan-based sports car racing championship; previously known as the Japan GT Championship (JGTC).</li></ul> <p>Defunct </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Le_Mans_Challenge" title="Japan Le Mans Challenge">Japan Le Mans Challenge</a> – Established in 2006, ran in Japan and folded in 2007.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/All_Japan_Sports_Prototype_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="All Japan Sports Prototype Championship">All Japan Sports Prototype Championship</a> – Japanese series for Gr. C cars, replaced by JGTC in 1993.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuji_Grand_Champion_Series" title="Fuji Grand Champion Series">Fuji Grand Champion Series</a> – a Japanese series originally for Gr. 6 cars.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_and_domestic_championships">National and domestic championships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: National and domestic championships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Australia">Australia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="GT World Challenge Australia">GT World Challenge Australia</a> – A series for GT type cars which ran from 1982 to 1985 (mostly IMSA GTO spec cars as well as Group B Sports Sedans from the then defunct <a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Sedan_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Sports Sedan Championship">Australian Sports Sedan Championship</a>), and from 2005 to date. The championship is currently run to FIA GT3 regulations. In November 2020, the Championship was acquired by <a href="/wiki/SRO_Motorsports_Group" title="SRO Motorsports Group">SRO Motorsports Group</a> and Australian Racing Group for the assets as new promoter and rebranded as part of "GT World Challenge" era to debut in 2021.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_Racer_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports Racer Series">Sports Racer Series</a> – An amateur series for small, mostly motorcycle-engined sports cars, run for the first time in 2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Nations_Cup_Championship" title="Australian Nations Cup Championship">Australian Nations Cup Championship</a> – A series for GT type cars which ran from 2000 to 2004. Replaced by the revived Australian GT Championship in 2005 after the series organiser <a href="/wiki/Procar_Australia" title="Procar Australia">Procar Australia</a> ceased operation in 2004.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Sports_Car_Championship" title="Australian Sports Car Championship">Australian Sports Car Championship</a> – A series which ran from 1969 to 1988. It was run for the unique to Australia <a href="/wiki/Group_A_Sports_Cars" title="Group A Sports Cars">Group A Sports Cars</a> regulations from 1969 to 1975, for <a href="/wiki/Group_D_Production_Sports_Cars" title="Group D Production Sports Cars">Group D Production Sports Cars</a> from 1976 to 1981 and again for Group A Sports Cars from 1982 to 1988.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Germany">Germany</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Rennsport_Meisterschaft" title="Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft">Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft</a> – German series which originally pitted touring cars against GT racers, Gr 6 and then Gr. C was later added.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ADAC_Supercup" title="ADAC Supercup">ADAC Supercup</a> – A Group C only national series in Germany, replaced DRM and ran until 1989. Not to be confused with the various <a href="/wiki/Porsche_Supercup" title="Porsche Supercup">Porsche Supercup</a> series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ADAC_GT_Masters" title="ADAC GT Masters">ADAC GT Masters</a> – ADAC level GT series</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interserie" title="Interserie">Interserie</a> – Germany-based series, originally similar to Can-Am.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_GT_Championship" title="British GT Championship">British GT Championship</a> – national level GT series</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_Prototype_Endurance_Event_Driving&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sports Prototype Endurance Event Driving (page does not exist)">Speed</a> – National level endurance car championship run by <a href="/wiki/MotorSport_Vision" title="MotorSport Vision">MotorsportVision Racing</a>. Sometimes called LMP3 cars.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thundersports" class="mw-redirect" title="Thundersports">Thundersports</a> – a British series of the 1980s in which pretty much any kind of sports racer, GT and even touring cars were eligible.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clubmans" class="mw-redirect" title="Clubmans">Clubmans</a> – a long-lived British formula which featured sophisticated, quick but economical front-engined/rear wheel drive sports racers well into the 1990s. Based originally on the popularity of the <a href="/wiki/Lotus_Seven" title="Lotus Seven">Lotus Seven</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_States">United States</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GT_World_Challenge_America" title="GT World Challenge America">GT World Challenge America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT_America_Series" title="GT America Series">GT America Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT4_America_Series" title="GT4 America Series">GT4 America Series</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_single_events">Major single events</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Major single events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans" title="24 Hours of Le Mans">24 Hours of Le Mans</a> – A Endurance events organized by <a href="/wiki/Automobile_Club_de_l%27Ouest" title="Automobile Club de l'Ouest">Automobile Club de l'Ouest</a> and sanctioned by <a href="/wiki/Federation_Internationale_de_l%27Automobile" class="mw-redirect" title="Federation Internationale de l'Automobile">Federation Internationale de l'Automobile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Daytona" title="24 Hours of Daytona">24 Hours of Daytona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_24_Hours" title="Nürburgring 24 Hours">Nürburgring 24 Hours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spa_24_Hours" title="Spa 24 Hours">Spa 24 Hours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathurst_12_Hour" title="Bathurst 12 Hour">Bathurst 12 Hour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12_Hours_of_Sebring" title="12 Hours of Sebring">12 Hours of Sebring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzuka_10_Hours" class="mw-redirect" title="Suzuka 10 Hours">Suzuka 10 Hours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubai_24_Hour" title="Dubai 24 Hour">Dubai 24 Hour</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sports_car_racing&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auto_racing" title="Auto racing">Auto racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">Grand Touring Cars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">Touring car racing</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHough1961" class="citation book cs1">Hough, Richard Alexander (1961). <i>A History of the World's Sports Cars</i>. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. p. 23. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/907907085">907907085</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+World%27s+Sports+Cars&rft.place=London&rft.pages=23&rft.pub=George+Allen+and+Unwin+Ltd&rft.date=1961&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F907907085&rft.aulast=Hough&rft.aufirst=Richard+Alexander&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASports+car+racing" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.audi.com/en/audisport/history.html">"Audi Sport"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030831/http://www.audi.com/en/audisport/history.html">Archived</a> from the original on 1 December 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 November</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Audi+Sport&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.audi.com%2Fen%2Faudisport%2Fhistory.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASports+car+racing" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrooklyn2014" class="citation book cs1">Brooklyn, Billie B. (15 December 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nJJhDwAAQBAJ&dq=distinction+between+sports+car+racing+and+touring+cars&pg=PA14"><i>Sports Car Racing</i></a>. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4994-0166-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4994-0166-0"><bdi>978-1-4994-0166-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sports+Car+Racing&rft.pub=The+Rosen+Publishing+Group%2C+Inc&rft.date=2014-12-15&rft.isbn=978-1-4994-0166-0&rft.aulast=Brooklyn&rft.aufirst=Billie+B.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnJJhDwAAQBAJ%26dq%3Ddistinction%2Bbetween%2Bsports%2Bcar%2Bracing%2Band%2Btouring%2Bcars%26pg%3DPA14&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASports+car+racing" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"A newer concept altogether is the modern "Gran Turismo" class, which was in effect unknown before <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>; sustained high-speed motoring from relatively modest engine size and compact closed coachwork"--<i>The Sports Car, Development and Design</i>; p.179; Stanford, John; B. 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Extensive history of World Championship sports car racing from 1952 to the late 1990s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Wimpffen" title="János Wimpffen">János Wimpffen</a>, "Open Roads And Front Engines" – a photographic companion to the above, covering the early 50s-early 60s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Wimpffen" title="János Wimpffen">János Wimpffen</a>, "Winged Sports Cars and Enduring Innovation" – a sequel to the above covering the early 60s-early 70s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Wimpffen" title="János Wimpffen">János Wimpffen</a>, "Spyders and Silhouettes" – a sequel to the above covering the early 70s-early 80s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wyer" title="John Wyer">John Wyer</a>, "The Certain Sound" – memoirs of Aston Martin and Ford GT40 team manager.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chris_Nixon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chris Nixon (page does not exist)">Chris Nixon</a>, "Racing with the David Brown Aston Martins", 2 vols.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Pritchard" title="Anthony Pritchard">Anthony Pritchard</a>, "Sports Racing Cars" – profiles of 25 sports racers through history.</li> <li>Brooklands Books, "Le Mans" – 5 volumes of contemporary race reports.</li> <li>Brooklands Books, "Mille Miglia" – 2 volumes of contemporary race reports.</li> <li>Brooklands Books, "Targa Florio" – 5 volumes of contemporary race reports.</li> <li>Brooklands Books, "Carrera Panamericana" – 1 volume of contemporary race reports.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Briggs" title="Ian Briggs">Ian Briggs</a>, "Endurance Racing 1982–1991" – the Group C and IMSA GTP years, race by race.</li> <li>Michael Cotton, "Directory of World Sports Cars" – IMSA and GpC car histories outlined in detail.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Whyte&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andrew Whyte (page does not exist)">Andrew Whyte</a>, "Jaguar: Sports Racing and Works Competition Cars" – 2 vols. 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href="/wiki/S5000" class="mw-redirect" title="S5000">S5000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermodified_racing" title="Supermodified racing">Supermodified</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BOSS_GP" title="BOSS GP">BOSS GP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monoposto_Racing_Club" title="Monoposto Racing Club">Monoposto Racing Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V_de_V_Challenge_Monoplace" title="V de V Challenge Monoplace">V de V Challenge Monoplace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formula_3000" title="Formula 3000">F3000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_5000" title="Formula 5000">F5000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_5000" title="Formula 5000">Formula A (SCCA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Atlantic" title="Formula Atlantic">Formula B (SCCA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_C_(SCCA)" title="Formula C (SCCA)">Formula C (SCCA)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Challenge_Japan" title="Formula Challenge Japan">FCJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Dream" title="Formula Dream">Formula Dream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Holden" title="Formula Holden">Formula Holden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Junior" title="Formula Junior">Formula Junior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Libre" title="Formula Libre">Formula Libre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Mondial" title="Formula Mondial">Formula Mondial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Pacific" title="Formula Pacific">Formula Pacific</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Super_Vee" title="Formula Super Vee">Formula Super Vee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_National_Formula" title="Australian National Formula">Australian National Formula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_Masters" title="Grand Prix Masters">Grand Prix Masters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_motor_racing" title="Grand Prix motor racing">Grand Prix motor racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tasman_Series" title="Tasman Series">Tasman Series</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/One-Design" class="mw-redirect" title="One-Design">One-make</a> <br />formulae</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Car_Challenge" title="Formula Car Challenge">Formula Car Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_SCCA" class="mw-redirect" title="Formula SCCA">Formula Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indy_NXT" title="Indy NXT">Indy NXT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MRF_Challenge" title="MRF Challenge">MRF Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spec_Racer_Ford" title="Spec Racer Ford">SRF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USF_Pro_2000_Championship" title="USF Pro 2000 Championship">USF Pro 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USF2000_Championship" title="USF2000 Championship">USF2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USF_Juniors" title="USF Juniors">USF Juniors</a></li> <li>FIA Formula Championship <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIA_Formula_2_Championship" title="FIA Formula 2 Championship">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIA_Formula_3_Championship" title="FIA Formula 3 Championship">3</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A1_Grand_Prix" title="A1 Grand Prix">A1GP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ADAC_Formel_Masters" title="ADAC Formel Masters">ADAC Formel Masters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auto_GP" title="Auto GP">Auto GP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barber_Pro_Series" title="Barber Pro Series">Barber Pro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Formula_Grand_Prix" title="China Formula Grand Prix">CFGP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Acceleration_1" title="Formula Acceleration 1">FA1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Asia" title="Formula Asia">Formula Asia</a></li> <li>Formula <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Abarth" title="Formula Abarth">Abarth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Alfa" title="Formula Alfa">Alfa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_BMW" title="Formula BMW">BMW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Chrysler_Euroseries" title="Formula Chrysler Euroseries">Chrysler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_K%C3%B6nig" title="Formula König">König</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_LGB" title="Formula LGB">LGB</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formula_LGB_Swift" title="Formula LGB Swift">Swift</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_LGB_Hyundai" title="Formula LGB Hyundai">Hyundai</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Lightning" title="Formula Lightning">Lightning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Maruti" title="Formula Maruti">Maruti</a></li> <li>Masters <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Masters_China" title="Formula Masters China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Masters_Russia" title="Formula Masters Russia">Russia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Mazda" title="Formula Mazda">Mazda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Series_Formula_V8_3.5" title="World Series Formula V8 3.5">Nissan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EFDA_Nations_Cup" title="EFDA Nations Cup">Opel/Vauxhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Palmer_Audi" title="Formula Palmer Audi">Palmer Audi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_RUS" title="Formula RUS">RUS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Rolon" title="Formula Rolon">Rolon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Renault" title="Formula Renault">Formula Renault</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Formula_Renault_Eurocup" title="Formula Renault Eurocup">2.0L</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_Masters" title="Grand Prix Masters">Grand Prix Masters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GP2_Series" title="GP2 Series">GP2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GP3_Series" title="GP3 Series">GP3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Formula_Master" title="International Formula Master">International Formula Master</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toyota_Racing_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Toyota Racing Series">Toyota Racing Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S5000_Australian_Drivers%27_Championship" title="S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship">S5000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superleague_Formula" title="Superleague Formula">Superleague Formula</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/One-Design" class="mw-redirect" title="One-Design">One-make</a> <br />spec racing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caterham_Racing" title="Caterham Racing">Caterham Racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferrari_Challenge" title="Ferrari Challenge">Ferrari Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fun_Cup" title="Fun Cup">Fun Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginetta_Junior_Championship" title="Ginetta Junior Championship">Ginetta Junior Championship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamborghini_Super_Trofeo" title="Lamborghini Super Trofeo">Lamborghini Super Trofeo</a></li> <li>Lotus Cup</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazda_MX-5_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="Mazda MX-5 Cup">Mazda MX-5 Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mini_Challenge_UK" title="Mini Challenge UK">Mini Challenge UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMSA_Ford_Mustang_Challenge" title="IMSA Ford Mustang Challenge">Mustang Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porsche_Carrera_Cup" title="Porsche Carrera Cup">Porsche Carrera Cup</a></li> <li>Radical Cup</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renault_Clio_Cup" title="Renault Clio Cup">Renault Clio Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TVR_Tuscan_Challenge" title="TVR Tuscan Challenge">TVR Tuscan Challenge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Audi_R8_LMS_Cup" title="Audi R8 LMS Cup">Audi R8 LMS Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Audi_Sport_TT_Cup" title="Audi Sport TT Cup">Audi Sport TT Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Mini_Challenge" title="Australian Mini Challenge">Australian Mini Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aston_Martin_Asia_Cup" title="Aston Martin Asia Cup">Aston Martin Asia Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BMW_M1_Procar_Championship" title="BMW M1 Procar Championship">BMW M1 Procar Championship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commodore_Cup" title="Commodore Cup">Commodore Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dacia_Cup" title="Dacia Cup">Dacia Cup</a></li> <li>Dodge Viper Challenge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginetta_GT4_Supercup" title="Ginetta GT4 Supercup">Ginetta GT4 Supercup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginetta_GT5_Challenge" title="Ginetta GT5 Challenge">Ginetta GT5 Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaguar_I-Pace_eTrophy" title="Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy">Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurocup_M%C3%A9gane_Trophy" title="Eurocup Mégane Trophy">Mégane Trophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renault_Sport_Trophy" title="Renault Sport Trophy">Renault Sport Trophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SEAT_Leon_Supercopa" class="mw-redirect" title="SEAT Leon Supercopa">SEAT Leon Supercopa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trofeo_Maserati" title="Trofeo Maserati">Trofeo Maserati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volkswagen_Jetta_TDI_Cup" title="Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup">Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volkswagen_Scirocco_R-Cup" title="Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup">Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kart_racing" title="Kart racing">Karting</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KF1" title="KF1">KF1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KF2" class="mw-redirect" title="KF2">KF2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KF3" class="mw-redirect" title="KF3">KF3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KZ1_(karting)" class="mw-redirect" title="KZ1 (karting)">KZ1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KZ2" title="KZ2">KZ2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superkart" title="Superkart">Superkart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_go-kart" title="Electric go-kart">Electric</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">Touring <br />car racing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Touring_Car_Championship" title="British Touring Car Championship">BTCC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Next_Generation_Touring_Car" title="Next Generation Touring Car">NGTC (TCN-1)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TCR_Touring_Car" title="TCR Touring Car">TCR (TCN-2)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stock_Car_Pro_Series" title="Stock Car Pro Series">Stock Car Pro Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stock_Series" title="Stock Series">Stock Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supercars_Championship" title="Supercars Championship">Supercars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Top_Race_V6" title="Top Race V6">Top Race V6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turismo_Nacional" title="Turismo Nacional">Turismo Nacional</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turismo_Nacional_BR" title="Turismo Nacional BR">Turismo Nacional BR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TC2000_Championship" title="TC2000 Championship">TC2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appendix_J_Touring_Cars" title="Appendix J Touring Cars">Appendix J</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BTC_Touring" title="BTC Touring">BTC-T</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_1_(motorsport)" title="Group 1 (motorsport)">Group 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_2_(motorsport)" title="Group 2 (motorsport)">Group 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_5_(motorsport)" title="Group 5 (motorsport)">Group 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_A" title="Group A">Group A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_C_(Australia)" title="Group C (Australia)">Group C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_E_Series_Production_Touring_Cars" title="Group E Series Production Touring Cars">Group E</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">Group F</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">Group G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touring_car_racing" title="Touring car racing">Group H</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_N" title="Group N">Group N</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_N_Touring_Cars" title="Group N Touring Cars">Aus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_B#Group_S" title="Group B">Group S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_1_Touring_Cars" title="Class 1 Touring Cars">Class 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Touring" title="Super Touring">Class 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_2000" title="Super 2000">Super 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diesel_2000" title="Diesel 2000">Diesel 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen_Meisterschaft" title="Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft">DTM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIA_ETCR_%E2%80%93_eTouring_Car_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="FIA ETCR – eTouring Car World Cup">ETCR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superstars_Series" title="Superstars Series">Superstars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V8Star_Series" title="V8Star Series">V8Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Touring_Car_Championship" title="World Touring Car Championship">WTCC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Touring_Car_Cup" title="World Touring Car Cup">WTCR</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Stock_car_racing" title="Stock car racing">Stock <br />car racing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ARCA_Menards_Series" title="ARCA Menards Series">ARCA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allison_Legacy_Series" title="Allison Legacy Series">Allison Legacy Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMCA_Sport_Compact" title="IMCA Sport Compact">IMCA Sport Compact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_model" title="Late model">Late model</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legends_car_racing" title="Legends car racing">Legends</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modified_racing" title="Modified racing">Modifieds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR" title="NASCAR">NASCAR</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Cup_Series" title="NASCAR Cup Series">Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Xfinity_Series" title="NASCAR Xfinity Series">Xfinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Craftsman_Truck_Series" title="NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series">Truck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Canada_Series" title="NASCAR Canada Series">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Whelen_Euro_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="NASCAR Whelen Euro Series">Whelen Euro Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Mexico_Series" title="NASCAR Mexico Series">Mexico</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stock_car_racing#Super_Stock" title="Stock car racing">Super Stock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stock_car_racing#Street_Stock" title="Stock car racing">Street Stock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turismo_Carretera" title="Turismo Carretera">Turismo Carretera</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ASCAR_Racing_Series" title="ASCAR Racing Series">ASCAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Stock_Car_Auto_Racing" title="Australian Stock Car Auto Racing">AUSCAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Race_of_Champions" title="International Race of Champions">IROC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superstar_Racing_Experience" title="Superstar Racing Experience">SRX</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oval_track_racing" title="Oval track racing">Oval</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BriSCA_Formula_1_Stock_Cars" title="BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars">BriSCA F1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BriSCA_Formula_2_Stock_Cars" title="BriSCA Formula 2 Stock Cars">BriSCA F2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V8_Hotstox" title="V8 Hotstox">V8 Hotstox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Rods_(oval_racing)" title="Hot Rods (oval racing)">Hot Rods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superstocks" title="Superstocks">Superstocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superstox" title="Superstox">Superstox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprint_car_racing" title="Sprint car racing">Sprint car racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midget_car_racing" title="Midget car racing">Midget car racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quarter_midget_racing" title="Quarter midget racing">Quarter midget racing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rallying" title="Rallying">Rallying</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Groups_Rally" title="Groups Rally">Groups Rally</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_Rally1" title="Group Rally1">Group Rally1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_Rally2" title="Group Rally2">Group Rally2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_Rally3" title="Group Rally3">Group Rally3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_Rally4" title="Group Rally4">Group Rally4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_Rally5" title="Group Rally5">Group Rally5</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_R-GT" title="Group R-GT">Group R-GT</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_1_(motorsport)" title="Group 1 (motorsport)">Group 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_2_(motorsport)" title="Group 2 (motorsport)">Group 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_4_(motorsport)" title="Group 4 (motorsport)">Group 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_A" title="Group A">Group A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_B" title="Group B">Group B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_B#Group_S" title="Group B">Group S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_N" title="Group N">Group N</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_R" title="Group R">Group R</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R5_(rallying)" title="R5 (rallying)">R5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_1600" title="Super 1600">Super 1600</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_2000" title="Super 2000">Super 2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_Rally_Car" title="World Rally Car">World Rally Car</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sports_prototype" title="Sports prototype">Sports <br />prototypes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LMDh" title="LMDh">LMDh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Hypercar" title="Le Mans Hypercar">LMH</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype#LMP2" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype#LMP3" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP3</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clubman_(racing_car_class)" title="Clubman (racing car class)">Clubmans</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daytona_Prototype" title="Daytona Prototype">DP</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daytona_Prototype_International" title="Daytona Prototype International">DPi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_3_(motorsport)" title="Group 3 (motorsport)">Group 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_4_(motorsport)" title="Group 4 (motorsport)">Group 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_5_(motorsport)" title="Group 5 (motorsport)">Group 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_6_(motorsport)" title="Group 6 (motorsport)">Group 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_7_(motorsport)" title="Group 7 (motorsport)">Group 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_A_Sports_Cars" title="Group A Sports Cars">Group A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_C" title="Group C">Group C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_CN" title="Group CN">Group CN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuji_Grand_Champion_Series" title="Fuji Grand Champion Series">GC</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fuji_Grand_Champion_Series" title="Fuji Grand Champion Series">GC-21</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMSA_GTP" class="mw-redirect" title="IMSA GTP">IMSA GTP</a> (1981–1993 era)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype" title="Le Mans Prototype">LMP1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Mans_Prototype_Challenge" title="Le Mans Prototype Challenge">LMPC</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_2000" title="Sports 2000">S2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Grand_tourer" title="Grand tourer">Grand <br />touring</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_GT3" title="Group GT3">GT3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SRO_GT2" title="SRO GT2">GT2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SRO_GT4" title="SRO GT4">GT4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_GT#GT500" title="Super GT">GT500</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_GT#GT300" title="Super GT">GT300</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Am_Series" title="Trans-Am Series">Trans-Am</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_3_(motorsport)" title="Group 3 (motorsport)">Group 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_4_(motorsport)" title="Group 4 (motorsport)">Group 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_5_(motorsport)" title="Group 5 (motorsport)">Group 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_B" title="Group B">Group B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_D_Production_Sports_Cars" title="Group D Production Sports Cars">Group D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_GT1" title="Group GT1">GT1 (1993–1999)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_GT1" title="Group GT1">GT1 (2000–2012)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_GT1#GTS_"GT1"_(1999–2009)" title="Group GT1">GT2 (1993–1999)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LM_GTE" title="LM GTE">GT2 (2005–2010)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GT3_(1998%E2%80%931999)" title="GT3 (1998–1999)">GT3 (1998–1999)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LM_GTE" title="LM GTE">LM GTE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMSA_GT_Championship" title="IMSA GT Championship">IMSA</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/All_American_Grand_Touring" class="mw-redirect" title="All American Grand Touring">AAGT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Touring_Over" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Touring Over">GTO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Touring_Supreme" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Touring Supreme">GTS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Touring_Under" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Touring Under">GTU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Touring_Experimental" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Touring Experimental">GTX</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_GT_Championship" title="Australian GT Championship">Appendix K</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Drag_racing" title="Drag racing">Drag <br />racing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Active" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Active</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Top_Fuel" title="Top Fuel">Top Fuel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dragster_(car)" title="Dragster (car)">Dragster</a> (TF/D)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Funny_Car" title="Funny Car">Funny Car</a> (TF/FC)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Top_Alcohol" title="Top Alcohol">Top Alcohol</a> <ul><li>Dragster (TA/D)</li> <li>Funny Car (TA/FC)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pro_Stock" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro Stock">Pro Stock</a> (PS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pro_Modified" title="Pro Modified">Pro Modified</a> (Pro Mod)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gasser_(car)" title="Gasser (car)">Gas</a></li> <li>Super Stock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Comp" title="Super Comp">Super Comp/Quick Rod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Top_Doorslammer" title="Top Doorslammer">Top Doorslammer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Altered_(drag_racing)" title="Altered (drag racing)">Altered</a></li> <li>Competition</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Top_Gas" title="Top Gas">Top Gas</a></li> <li>Modified</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pro_FWD" title="Pro FWD">Pro FWD</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Off-road_racing" title="Off-road racing">Off-road</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baja_Bug" title="Baja Bug">Baja Bug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dune_buggy" title="Dune buggy">Dune buggy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rallycross" 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Hours of Zolder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24_Hours_of_Portim%C3%A3o" title="24 Hours of Portimão">24 Hours of Portimão</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=24_Hours_of_Barcelona_-_Trofeo_Ferm%C3%AD_V%C3%A9lez&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="24 Hours of Barcelona - Trofeo Fermí Vélez (page does not exist)">24 Hours of Barcelona - Trofeo Fermí Vélez</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Horas_de_Barcelona" class="extiw" title="es:24 Horas de Barcelona">es</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2CV_24_Hour_Race" title="2CV 24 Hour Race">2CV 24 Hour Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longest_Day_of_Nelson" title="Longest Day of Nelson">Longest Day of Nelson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Silverstone_Britcar_24-Hour" title="Silverstone Britcar 24-Hour">24H Silverstone – European Touring Car Edition</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=24_Hours_of_Chamonix&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="24 Hours of Chamonix (page does not exist)">24 Hours of Chamonix</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Heures_de_Chamonix" class="extiw" title="fr:24 Heures de Chamonix">fr</a>]</span></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Willhire_24_Hour" title="Willhire 24 Hour">Willhire 24 Hour</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bathurst_24_Hour" title="Bathurst 24 Hour">Bathurst 24 Hour</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tokachi_24_Hours" title="Tokachi 24 Hours">Tokachi 24 Hours</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">12 hours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=12_Hours_of_Kuwait&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="12 Hours of Kuwait (page does not exist)">12 Hours of Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12_Hours_of_Sebring" title="12 Hours 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petit_Le_Mans" title="Petit Le Mans">Petit Le Mans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatar_1812_km" title="Qatar 1812 km">Qatar 1812 km</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">9 hours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kyalami_9_Hours" title="Kyalami 9 Hours">Kyalami 9 Hours</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">8 hours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/8_Hours_of_Bahrain" title="8 Hours of Bahrain">8 Hours of Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_8_Hour" title="Indianapolis 8 Hour">Indianapolis 8 Hour</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/California_8_Hours" title="California 8 Hours">California 8 Hours</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_Miles_of_Sebring" title="1000 Miles of Sebring">1000 Miles of Sebring</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">6 hours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6_Hours_of_Abu_Dhabi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6 Hours of Abu Dhabi (page does not exist)">6 Hours of Abu Dhabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Bogot%C3%A1" title="6 Hours of Bogotá">6 Hours of Bogotá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Fuji" title="6 Hours of Fuji">6 Hours of Fuji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Imola" title="6 Hours of Imola">6 Hours of Imola</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6_Hours_of_Jeddah&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6 Hours of Jeddah (page does not exist)">6 Hours of Jeddah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Vallelunga" title="6 Hours of Vallelunga">6 Hours of Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_S%C3%A3o_Paulo" title="6 Hours of São Paulo">6 Hours of São Paulo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Spa-Francorchamps" title="6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps">6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Watkins_Glen" title="6 Hours of Watkins Glen">6 Hours of Watkins Glen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathurst_Motor_Festival#Bathurst_6_Hour" title="Bathurst Motor Festival">Bathurst 6 Hour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lone_Star_Le_Mans" title="Lone Star Le Mans">6 Hours of Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monterey_Sports_Car_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="Monterey Sports Car Championships">Monterey 6 Hours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IMSA_Battle_on_the_Bricks" title="IMSA Battle on the Bricks">6 Hours of Indianapolis (IMSA)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Six_Hour_Le_Mans" title="Six Hour Le Mans">6 Hours of Perth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_of_Atlanta" title="Grand Prix of Atlanta">6 Hours of Atlanta</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Donington" title="6 Hours of Donington">6 Hours of Donington</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Mexico" title="6 Hours of Mexico">6 Hours of Mexico</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Monza" title="6 Hours of Monza">6 Hours of Monza</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_N%C3%BCrburgring" title="6 Hours of Nürburgring">6 Hours of Nürburgring</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Portim%C3%A3o" title="6 Hours of Portimão">6 Hours of Portimão</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Zhuhai" title="6 Hours of Zhuhai">6 Hours of Zhuhai</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_Grand_Prix" title="Los Angeles Times Grand Prix">Riverside 6 Hours</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sports_Car_Challenge_of_Mid-Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio">Mid-Ohio 6 Hours</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chevrolet_Grand_Prix" title="Chevrolet Grand Prix">Mosport 6 Hours</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">4 Hours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4_Hours_of_Abu_Dhabi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4 Hours of Abu Dhabi (page does not exist)">4 Hours of Abu Dhabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1000_km_Catalunya" class="mw-redirect" title="1000 km Catalunya">4 Hours of Barcelona</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4_Hours_of_Dubai&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4 Hours of Dubai (page does not exist)">4 Hours of Dubai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4_Hours_of_Imola" title="4 Hours of Imola">4 Hours of Imola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Castellet#Sports_car_races" class="mw-redirect" title="6 Hours of Castellet">4 Hours of Le Castellet</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4_Hours_of_Mugello&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4 Hours of Mugello (page does not exist)">4 Hours of Mugello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4_Hours_of_Portim%C3%A3o" title="4 Hours of Portimão">4 Hours of Portimão</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4_Hours_of_Sepang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4 Hours of Sepang (page does not exist)">4 Hours of Sepang</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4_Hours_of_Spa-Francorchamps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (page does not exist)">4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=4_Hours_of_Arag%C3%B3n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4 Hours of Aragón (page does not exist)">4 Hours of Aragón</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/4_Hours_of_Estoril" title="4 Hours of Estoril">4 Hours of Estoril</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_km_Zeltweg" title="1000 km Zeltweg">4 Hours of Red Bull Ring</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/4_Hours_of_Shanghai" title="4 Hours of Shanghai">4 Hours of Shanghai</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/4_Hours_of_Silverstone" title="4 Hours of Silverstone">4 Hours of Silverstone</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2 hours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/TCR_European_Endurance" title="TCR European Endurance">TCR European Endurance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1000 miles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mil_Milhas_Brasil" title="Mil Milhas Brasil">Mil Milhas Brasil</a></li></ul> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mille_Miglia" title="Mille Miglia">Mille Miglia</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1000 km</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1000_kilometr%C5%B3_lenktyn%C4%97s" class="mw-redirect" title="1000 kilometrų lenktynės">1006 km Palanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_Hours_of_Castellet#GT_races" class="mw-redirect" title="6 Hours of Castellet">1000 km Paul Ricard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathurst_1000" title="Bathurst 1000">Bathurst 1000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baja_1000" title="Baja 1000">Baja 1000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sepang_1000_km" title="Sepang 1000 km">Sepang 1000 km</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzuka_1000_km" title="Suzuka 1000 km">Suzuka 1000 km</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_km_Brands_Hatch" title="1000 km Brands Hatch">1000 km Brands Hatch</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_km_Buenos_Aires" title="1000 km Buenos Aires">1000 km Buenos Aires</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_km_Istanbul" title="1000 km Istanbul">1000 km Istanbul</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_km_Jarama" title="1000 km Jarama">1000 km Jarama</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2003_1000_km_of_Le_Mans" title="2003 1000 km of Le Mans">1000 km Le Mans (Bugatti)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chevrolet_Grand_Prix" title="Chevrolet Grand Prix">1000 km Mosport</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2009_1000_km_of_Okayama" title="2009 1000 km of Okayama">1000 km Okayama</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_km_of_Paris" title="1000 km of Paris">1000 km Paris</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Race_of_a_Thousand_Years" title="Race of a Thousand Years">Race of a Thousand Years</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fun_Cup" title="Fun Cup">25 Hours of Spa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25_Hours_of_Thunderhill" title="25 Hours of Thunderhill">25 Hours of Thunderhill</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carrera_Panamericana" title="Carrera Panamericana">Carrera Panamericana</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Charge_of_the_Headlight_Brigade" title="Charge of the Headlight Brigade">Charge of the Headlight Brigade</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Targa_Florio" title="Targa Florio">Targa Florio</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2019_TCR_Spa_500" title="2019 TCR Spa 500">TCR Spa 500 Laps or 23 Hours</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_2904" title="The 2904">The 2904</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Defunct races are indicated in <i>italics</i></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Racing" 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title="Skyrunning">Skyrunning</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tower_running" title="Tower running">Tower running</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racewalking" title="Racewalking">Racewalking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Backward_running" title="Backward running">Backward running</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snowshoe_running" title="Snowshoe running">Snowshoe running</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkour" title="Parkour">Parkour</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Orienteering" title="Orienteering">Orienteering</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Foot_orienteering" title="Foot orienteering">Foot orienteering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_bike_orienteering" title="Mountain bike orienteering">Mountain bike orienteering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ski_orienteering" title="Ski orienteering">Ski orienteering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trail_orienteering" title="Trail orienteering">Trail orienteering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amateur_radio_direction_finding" title="Amateur radio direction finding">Radio orienteering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canoe_orienteering" title="Canoe orienteering">Canoe orienteering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogaining" title="Rogaining">Rogaining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_marathon" title="Mountain marathon">Mountain marathon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Car_orienteering" title="Car orienteering">Car orienteering</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cycle_sport" title="Cycle sport">Bicycle racing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Road_bicycle_racing" title="Road bicycle racing">Road bicycle racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyclo-cross" title="Cyclo-cross">Cyclo-cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravel_racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravel racing">Gravel racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_bike_racing" title="Mountain bike racing">Mountain bike racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Track_cycling" title="Track cycling">Track cycling</a> (<a href="/wiki/Keirin" title="Keirin">Keirin</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BMX_racing" title="BMX racing">BMX racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cycle_speedway" title="Cycle speedway">Cycle speedway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Animals_in_sport" title="Animals in sport">Animal racing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Camel_racing" title="Camel racing">Camel racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing" title="Greyhound racing">Greyhound racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horse_racing" title="Horse racing">Horse racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pigeon_racing" title="Pigeon racing">Pigeon racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sled_dog_racing" title="Sled dog racing">Sled dog racing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Swimming_(sport)" title="Swimming (sport)">Swimming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Open_water_swimming" title="Open water swimming">Open water swimming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marathon_swimming" title="Marathon swimming">Marathon swimming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paralympic_swimming" class="mw-redirect" title="Paralympic swimming">Paralympic 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/David_Coulthard_2008_Canada.jpg/80px-David_Coulthard_2008_Canada.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/David_Coulthard_2008_Canada.jpg/120px-David_Coulthard_2008_Canada.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/David_Coulthard_2008_Canada.jpg/160px-David_Coulthard_2008_Canada.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1745" data-file-height="1400" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Motorcycle_racing" title="Motorcycle racing">Motorcycle racing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beach_racing" title="Beach racing">Beach racing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motocross" title="Motocross">Motocross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motorcycle_chariot_racing" 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