GT2 Challenge

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GT2 Challenge
Gt2c-logo.png
Type GTR sprint league
Recurrence custom schedule
License S2
Signup required  Yes
First season 2020
Years active 2020–2021
2024–
Seasons 3 seasons
Organizers New Dimension Racing
Official website

The GT2 Challenge (GT2C) is a sprint based series, using restricted GTR cars, organized by New Dimension Racing.

History

GT2 Challenge ran its four-round inaugural season in 2020, spanning between April 24 and June 13. Following the success of the first season, it returned for a second, extended season for six rounds. Season two introduced a pre-qualifying system to determine the 38 cars that can take part in a given championship round. The pre-qualifying ran for 48 hours, and awarded all participants who attempted pre-qualifying 5 bonus points per round. Drivers who did not make the top 38 cut, were offered a second race session of a full race distance, unscored, not officially timed.

In 2024, GT2 Challenge returns for its third season. Its first round was concluded right on the week following the final round of GT4 Sprint Cup 2024. A change compared to previous seasons, the race distance is also time-limited (105 minutes) besides being defined in lap count. During the week leading up to Round 1, a discussion emerged on the NDR Discord to adjust the intake restriction of the FXR. As a result, while FZR and XRR kept their restrictions for all season rounds, the FXR will remain 24% for Rounds 1 and 2, then run at 23% for Rounds 3 and 4 (announcement: [1]). Similarly to season two, pre-qualifying was also used to determine the top 38 drivers that can take part in a round, with the difference of not awarding bonus points for participants and also not having a second race session for those who did not make the cut. Of those, the first three drivers were asked to be ready to jump in last minute, if necessary, given they wished so.

Format

The series aims to a sprint format, one driver to a car. Races are scheduled to be approximately 230 kilometres in length, with a rolling start. Drivers are not required to make a pit stop, but the race lengths make the no-stop strategy risky. Safety Car and Virtual Safety Car deployments add strategic changes. In the first two seasons, balance of performance was defined as: FZ50 GTR (FZR) 21%, FXO GTR (FXR) 24%, XR GTR (XRR) 25% intake restriction.

GT2 Challenge - Season 2024 Format
Day Start Time Session Duration
Friday 13:00 UTC Pre-Qualifying 48 hours
Sunday
(Race day)
15:00 UTC Free Practice 20 minutes
15:30 UTC Qualifying 20 minutes
16:00 UTC Race laps

Scoring

Based on Season 2024: all drivers which drive 75% or more of the race distance are awarded points. Pole position qualifying awards an extra point. In race, all drivers get points based on the table below. The high climber driver gets 1 extra point. A 5 point bonus will be awarded to every driver at each round they participate in (in any session).

Scoring system (2024–)
Qualifying Pole Race  1.   2.   3.   4.   5.   6.   7.   8.   9.   10.   11.   12.   13.   14.   15.   16.   17.   18.   19.  High Climber Participation bonus
1 100 90 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 47 44 41 38 35 32 29 26 23 20 2 5
 20.   21.   22.   23.   24.   25.   26.   27.   28.   29.   30.   31.   32.   33.   34.   35.   36.   37.   38. 
19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Seasons

GT2 Challenge overview
Season Rounds Final standings
Champion Pts 2nd Pts 3rd Pts Teams champion Pts Final reports Balance of performance
S1 2020 4 Joni Katila (jsrk) 189 Isaac Price (isaacprice) 150 Matias Mäki-Hoimela (xaxax123) 136 meh Racing 203 Drivers Teams All rounds: FZR 21%, FXR 24%, XRR 25%
S2 2021 6 Joe Holmes (kart-36) 507 Isaac Price (isaacprice) 471 Joni Katila (jsrk) 356 Chad Esports 808 Drivers Teams All rounds: FZR 21%, FXR 24%, XRR 25%
S3 2024 4 Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) 401 Isaac Price (isaacprice) 371 Gábor Gyüre (viperakecske) 333 Yes Motorsport 732 Drivers Teams Rounds 1-2: FZR 21%, FXR 24%, XRR 25%; Rounds 3-4: FXR 23%
FZ2 FX2 XR2

Season 2020

GT2 Challenge 2020 Calendar
Rd Track Date Laps Pole position Winner 2nd 3rd Fastest lap Reports Archive
1 Blackwood Historic (BL2) 24 Apr 2020 70 2x 1:08.97 | Joni Katila, Matias Pikkarainen Isaac Price (isaacprice) Joni Katila (jsrk) Matias Pikkarainen (matias-) 1:09.19 | Matias Pikkarainen (matias-) FP Q R SBTV
2 Westhill International (WE2) 16 May 2020 40 1:52.13 | Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Joni Katila (jsrk) Ricardas Petravicius (narkoze) 1:52.77 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) FP Q R SBTV
3 Aston North (AS7) 30 May 2020 45 1:52.05 | Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Joni Katila (jsrk) 1:52.26 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) FP Q R SBTV
4 Kyoto GP Long w/ Boothy Chicane (KY3X) 13 June 2020 32 2:21.68 | Joe Holmes (kart-36) Joni Katila (jsrk) Andrejs Laipnieks (laipnieks) Joe Holmes (kart-36) 2:21.52 | Matias Mäki-Hoimela (xaxax123) FP Q R SBTV

The event's official stream was provided by Sim Broadcasts. mpRes statistics can be found at: http://results.newdimensionracing.com/mpres/league/GT2C/1/

Results

  • The official season 2020 final standings can be found here: Drivers, Teams

Season 2021

GT2 Challenge 2021 Calendar
Rd Track Date Laps Pole position Winner 2nd 3rd Fastest lap Reports Archive
1 Kyoto Ring National (KY2) 10 Jan 2021 45 1:39.67 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Joe Holmes (kart-36) Joni Katila (jsrk) 1:39.64 | Joni Katila (jsrk) PQ FP Q R SBTV
2 Rockingham International w/o Chicane (RO7X) 24 Jan 2021 60 1:30.95 | Dennis Lind (dennis93) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Joe Holmes (kart-36) Niko Puntola (nikopdr) 1:30.93 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) PQ FP Q R SBTV
3 South City Long (SO4) 7 Feb 2021 58 1:33.27 | Joe Holmes (kart-36) Joe Holmes (kart-36) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Isaac Price (isaacprice) 1:33.28 | Joe Holmes (kart-36) PQ FP Q R SBTV
4 Blackwood Grand Prix (BL1) 21 Feb 2021 70 1:10.45 | Joe Holmes (kart-36) Joe Holmes (kart-36) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Alen Terzic (terga) 1:10.66 | Dennis Lind (dennis93) PQ FP Q R SBTV
5 Fern Bay Classic (FEX) 7 Mar 2021 66 1:19.93 | Dennis Lind (dennis93) Joe Holmes (kart-36) Dennis Lind (dennis93) Dániel Balla (mandulaa) 1:20.58 | Dennis Lind (dennis93) PQ FP Q R SBTV
6 Aston Grand Touring (AS6) 21 Mar 2021 29 2:39.45 | Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Joni Katila (jsrk) 2:39.35 | Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) PQ FP Q R SBTV
NC Westhill International (WE2) 4 Apr 2021 6 hours #9 Procrastination Motorsports
sn1p, laipnieks
#69 Yes Motorsports and a Pleb
jsrk, excellent15, viperakecske, fastlt
#12 Energy Virtual Racing
mailliw, renato.picanco
#10 Energy Sim Racing
victormateus123, bacabinha
1:52.80 | #69 Joni Katila (jsrk) FP GRID R SBTV
  • Fun fact: in the non-championship 6-hour endurance round of 6 Hours of Westhill, 22 cars started and all of them finished, including 4 cars which were driven solo.

The event's official stream was be provided by Sim Broadcasts. mpRes statistics can be found at: http://results.newdimensionracing.com/mpres/league/GT2C/2/

Season trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txvZeAVa8Dg

Results

  • The official season 2021 final standings can be found here: Drivers, Teams

Season 2024

GT2 Challenge 2024 Calendar
Rd Track Date Laps Pole position Winner 2nd 3rd Fastest lap Reports Archive
1 Aston North Reverse (AS7R) 4 Feb 2024 45 1:51.66 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Gábor Gyüre (viperakecske) 1:51.88 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) PQ FP Q R [SBTV] [2] [3] [4]
2 Rockingham International w/o Chicane (RO7X) 18 Feb 2024 60 1:30.67 | Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Joni Katila (jsrk) 1:30.54 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) PQ FP Q R [SBTV] [2] [3]
3 Kyoto Ring GP Long w/Boothy Chicane (KY3B) 3 Mar 2024 32 2:21.21 | Dennis Lind (dennis93) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) Jordan Lavrikov (imudilaskyline) Isaac Price (isaacprice) 2:22.00 | Kamil Gorzelany (uchu) PQ FP Q R [SBTV] [2] [3] [4]
4 Westhill International Rev. w/o Chicane (WE2Y) 17 Mar 2024 40 2x 1:51.55 | Gábor Gyüre, Joni Katila Gábor Gyüre (viperakecske) Isaac Price (isaacprice) Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) 1:52.15 | Isaac Price (isaacprice) PQ FP Q R [SBTV]
FZ2 FX2 XR2

The event's official stream is provided by Sim Broadcasts.

Season trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDin4Gl3BVw

Results

Round 3 - Laptime stability (Top 15)
Round 4 - Laptime stability (Top 20)
  • The official season 2024 final standings can be found here: Drivers, Teams

League Standings display all Drivers who participated in a session, paired with their scored points. 1st, 2nd and 3rd places are highlighted in gold, silver and bronze, respectively. Pole positions are indicated in bold, Fastest laps in italic. Total represents points after bonuses, after penalties.

GT2 Challenge Drivers' Championship
Pos. # Driver Team Rounds Bonus Pen. Total
R1 R2 R3 R4
1 38 Vytautas Laguckas (excellent15) 100 101 100 80 +20 401
2 83 Isaac Price (isaacprice) 91 90 80 90 +20 371
3 7 Gábor Gyüre (viperakecske) 80 60 72 101 +20 333
4 74 Darius Veržinskas (pathseeker) 55 75 60 65 +20 275
5 75 Pauli Peltokangas (botswanan salama) 60 70 65 +15 210
6 60 Dennis Lind (dennis93) 65 76 50 +15 206
7 40 Joni Katila (jsrk) 75 80 35 +15 205
8 8 Mantas Smalkevicius (yzex) 70 13 75 +15 173
9 15 Imran Azhar (beileboy) 38 44 70 +20 172
10 77 Niko Puntola (nikopdr) 50 0 38 60 +20 168
11 43 Dániel Balla (mandulaa) 44 19 29 47 +20 159
12 23 Ayoub El Hannouni (ayoub2016) 32 44 7 44 +20 147
13 34 Karolis Motiejuitis (sobis) 19 47 18 32 +20 136
14 72 Jordan Lavrikov (imudilaskyline) 35 90 +10 135
15 88 Sean Lee (microspecv) 22 41 9 38 +20 130
16 85 Maciej Klimczyk (jackson93) 16 23 47 12 +20 118
17 9 Nierka Savusis (killmeimgod) 29 0 26 41 +20 116
18 98 Jared Meade (jmeade) 0 26 35 16 +20 97
19 73 Jeromy Gride (johneysvk) 17 18 11 23 +20 89
20 80 Jeremías Zanella (pianomen) 41 0 32 +15 88
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