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GT & Sports-Car Cup 2024 Season

Sicilian Start for GTSCC 2024

The unmissable opportunity to race at a fabulous new event at the Autodromo di Pergusa in sunny Sicily - a coup for the exclusive GT & Sports Car Cup series, inaugurated in 2007 - is both the opening ‘rendez-vous‘ and the jewel in the crown of our 18th season.

Excitingly, for the first time since 2019, the GTSCC calendar features two fixtures in Europe. May’s schedule-opening Settimana Motoristica Ennese’s mission is to recapture the ambience and Enna-Pergusa’s illustrious races around the Mediterranean island’s only lake.

Promoted by the enchanting historic city of Enna - perched atop a hill with majestic views over unworldly volcanic landscape to the interior - and Regional Department of Tourism, the multi-faceted cultural festival for gourmet petrolheads celebrates the great early races at the charismatic track which opened in 1951.

Home of the Targa Florio, first run over three laps of a fearsome 92-mile road circuit in 1906, Sicily boasts an extraordinary motor sport history. We are honoured to be invited alongside our friends the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association (HGPCA) and Formula Junior Historic Racing Association (FJHRA) for what promises to be a truly spectacular showpiece.

Each race group will compete twice on the Pergusa circuit, calmed since its terrifyingly fast early days by the addition of chicanes in the 1970s. Our twin 75-minute double-driver races - one on Saturday, one on Sunday, with an aggregate result - will give competitors a taste of the heroism of European racing’s pioneers.

The GTSCC celebrates the legacy of the Coppa Citta di Enna, a non-championship sports and GT car race run between 1950 and ’61. Significant winners include Franco Cortese - Enzo Ferrari’s first signing for his eponymous marque, driving a Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica - Franco Bordoni (Gordini and Maserati A6GCS), Giulio Cabianca (OSCA) and Palermo’s fastest school teacher Nino Vaccarella (Maserati 200Si).

From 1962, the race became a round of the World Sportscar Championship, a mantle it wore with pride until 1967. The title also graced rounds of the European 2-litre Sportscar Championship before reclaiming its place on the global stage.

“It is 11 years since the GTSCC visited Italy - at Monza in 2012 - and the opportunity to bring it to Sicily for the first time, for such a prestigious event alongside the FJHRA and HGPCA, is unmissable,” said Flavien and Vanessa Marçais. “We very much hope the folklore of Enna-Pergusa will attract some of the country’s finest historic cars and drivers. Not only will they be welcome, but hopefully they may also be enthused to become regular competitors in our series.”

Widely envied for its family-oriented sporting and social content, with quality hospitality, our 2024 programme is bookended by continental adventures. The finale will once again be played out at the spectacular Autodromo International do Algarve in October, extending our relationship which dates back to 2011.

Balancing the attraction for UK-based competitors and channel-hopping visitors are returns to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit for the Equipe Summer Classic and Castle Combe’s Autumn Classic, named 2023 Event of the Year in the Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards, presented in London last week.

That all four venues boast Formula 1 history adds considerable cachet to the GTSCC. Silverstone, exclusive home of the British GP since 1987, and Algarve (which staged Portuguese GPs in 2020-’21) are current FIA Grade 1 licenced facilities. Castle Combe and Enna-Pergusa hosted home internationals in the 1950s and ’60s, the latter’s titled the GP del Mediterraneo.

GTSCC’s Sporting Heritage

GTSCC races have always been open to invited owner-drivers with charismatic Grand Touring cars, showcasing marques and models raced internationally to December 31, 1965, and sports racing cars built and raced until the end of 1962. Since last season, Pre-’66 Touring Cars running to homologated FIA Appendix K specification have been admitted too, which may inspire Abarth racers to challenge the Mini Cooper Ss and Broadspeed GTS derivative in the 1300cc split, Alfa Romeos and BMWs to take on Lotus Cortinas and American V8s to join the fray at Pergusa.

The highest levels of car preparation and conduct on and off track are hallmarks of the GTSCC. By building and enhancing a reputation for zero-contact sport, excellent driving standards and unparalleled camaraderie, we attracted an unprecedented number of family teams in 2023, a proud nuance reflected in the presentation of Royal Automobile Club awards at each round.