Race Calendar

GT & Sports-Car Cup 2026 Season

Founded in 2007, the prestigious GT & Sports Car Cup invitation series enters its landmark 20th season in 2026 with an exciting new venue - and principality - to enjoy. Anglesey Circuit, perched on the Welsh island’s coast, augments traditional favourites Silverstone GP, Castle Combe and Portugal’s Autodromo Internacional do Algarve as the second ‘rendez-vous’ point on an exciting four-event calendar for owners of homologated Pre-1966 GT and Pre-1963 Sports Racing cars.

“Buoyed by record entries this term, we thought long and hard about shaping the 2026 calendar, exploring several international options before finalising the programme,” said GTSCC founders Flavien and Vanessa Marçais of Automobiles Historiques. “We believe the blend of modern Formula 1 tracks, wrapped around a superb newcomer and a charismatic historied airfield circuit, has something for everyone, offering our growing family of competitors a well-spaced schedule and great value fun across the summer.”        

Anglesey Circuit - Trac Môn to Welsh speakers - is without doubt the most gloriously situated of any in the British Isles, overlooking the Irish Sea, with majestic Snowdonia providing the opposite backdrop. Opened in 1997 on the former RAF Ty Croes signals unit campus, but lengthened in 2006 and relaunched in the year of the GTSCC’s birth, the 2.1-mile layout is hewn into a staggering escarpment boasting breathtaking views. Extraordinary elevation changes, plus sensational climbs and swoops are linked by a palette of challenging and flowing corners, ideally suited to cars of the 1950s and 1960s running on Dunlop treaded tyres.

For GTSCC devotees, some of whom we are very proud to say have supported the races since the early years, the opportunity to race at Anglesey Circuit - situated around 90 miles west of Oulton Park, with good trunk road access - completes a virtual lap of England and Wales. Over the years, the competition’s unique flavour has infused Snetterton in the East to Brands Hatch in the South East and Castle Combe and Thruxton and the South West, via Donington Park and Silverstone in the Midlands. Rooted in Pau as a French series which visited Dijon and Paul Ricard in 2007, it has also graced Charade (Clermont Ferrand), Nogaro, Ledenon and Albi in France, plus Italian classics Monza (Milan) and Enna-Pergusa (Sicily).

By popular consensus, all three British events will take place on Saturdays, with morning qualifying sessions and afternoon races. Silverstone’s season opener will be run over a two-hour duration, with 90-minute races at Anglesey Circuit and Castle Combe. As a central part of the Algarve Classic Festival, the ‘flyaway’ finale commands its regular two-hour slot on Sunday morning, following the event’s usual build-up and Saturday qualifying.

“We are extremely grateful to our splendid partners, through whose generosity high quality hospitality will continue to be provided at each GTSCC showpiece. Apart from a playground on which to exercise splendid cars, the social side of each meeting has always been hugely important. Indeed, the latter quality is key to the series’ evolution and the ever increasing number of family teams taking part.”

GTSCC’s Sporting Heritage

Founded by Flavien and Vanessa Marcais, with charismatic cars, competitive spirit, courtesy and camaraderie on and off track as its cornerstones, the GTSCC is among Historic racing’s most aspirational series. Its reputation for fast, fair and fun endurance racing at superb venues has been hard won, an accolade fiercely guarded by its growing family of competitors. 

Indeed, family values and respect are as much key to the GTSCC’s success as the circuit action. Its races have always been open to invited owner-drivers of Grand Touring cars, showcasing marques and models raced internationally to December 31, 1965, and sports racing cars built and raced until the end of 1963.  In recent seasons, Pre-’66 Touring Cars also running to period homologated FIA Appendix K specification have been welcomed as a further string to its bow.

The highest levels of car preparation and impeccable driving standards are expected within the GTSCC. Both have contributed to the unprecedented number of family teams - fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, sisters, husbands-and-wives - which competed in 2025. The wonderful racing clans, which imbue the series with a unique flavour, are recognised and celebrated by the presentation of coveted Royal Automobile Club’s family awards at every round.