2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge

The 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge was the fourth season of the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The season featured five rounds, starting with the Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour on 3 February and concluding with the Kyalami 9 Hours on 23 November. Tristan Vautier was the defending Drivers' champion and Audi was the defending Manufacturers' champion.

At the annual press conference during the 2018 24 Hours of Spa on 27 July, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation announced the first draft of the 2019 calendar. Kyalami was added to the schedule.^[1] On 3 December, it was announced the nine-hour race in South Africa would be moved from 3 to 23 November to avoid a clash with the Rugby World Cup.^[2] The date of the California 8 Hours was confirmed on 18 January. The race was moved from Sunday to the Saturday the day before in order to better accommodate live TV.^[3]

Round	Race	Circuit	Date	Report
1	Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour	Mount Panorama Circuit, Bathurst, Australia	3 February	Report
2	California 8 Hours	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, United States	30 March	Report
3	24 Hours of Spa	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium	27–28 July	Report
4	Suzuka 10 Hours	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka, Japan	25 August	Report
5	Kyalami 9 Hours	Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, Midrand, South Africa	23 November	Report

Manufacturer Team Car No. Drivers Class Rounds Audi Audi Sport Team Valvoline R8 LMS (2018) 2 Christopher Haase P 1 Christopher Mies Markus Winkelhock 22 Kelvin van der Linde P 1 Garth Tander Frédéric Vervisch Melbourne Performance Centre 3 Matt Neal PA 1 Gordon Shedden Pete Storey 9 Marc Cini PA 1 Dean Fiore Lee Holdsworth Audi Sport Team WRT R8 LMS (2019) 1 Robin Frijns P 3 Nico Müller René Rast 2 Alex Riberas P 3 Frank Stippler Dries Vanthoor 10 Christopher Haase P 2 Dries Vanthoor Frédéric Vervisch 25 Kelvin van der Linde P 4–5 Dries Vanthoor Frédéric Vervisch Audi Team Hitotsuyama 21 Richard Lyons P 4 Alessio Picariello Ryuichiro Tomita Audi Sport Team Saintéloc 25 Christopher Haase P 3 Frédéric Vervisch Markus Winkelhock Audi Sport Team Land[N 1] Montaplast by Land Motorsport[N 1] 29 Christopher Mies P 2, 5 Markus Winkelhock Kelvin van der Linde 2 Christopher Haase 5 129 Ricardo Feller P 3 Jamie Green Christopher Mies Audi Sport Team Absolute Racing 125 Christopher Haase P 4 Christopher Mies Markus Winkelhock Bentley Bentley Team M-Sport[N 2] M-Sport Team Bentley[N 2] Continental GT3 107 Jules Gounon P All Jordan Pepper Steven Kane 1–4 Maxime Soulet 5 108 Maxime Soulet P 1–3 Andy Soucek 1, 4–5 Vincent Abril 1 Markus Palttala 2–3 Lucas Ordóñez 2 Alex Buncombe 3–4 Seb Morris 4 Rodrigo Baptista 5 Steven Kane 109 Rodrigo Baptista P 3 Callum MacLeod Seb Morris 110 Pipo Derani P 3 Lucas Ordóñez Andy Soucek BMW Boutsen Ginion M6 GT3 9 Gennaro Bonafede Am 3 Erik Maris Karim Ojjeh Marc Rostan Walkenhorst Motorsport 34 Nick Catsburg P All Mikkel Jensen Christian Krognes 36 Henry Walkenhorst Am 3, 5 Anders Buchardt 3 David Pittard Don Yount Gennaro Bonafede 5 Michael Von Rooyen BMW Team Schnitzer 42 Augusto Farfus P All Martin Tomczyk Chaz Mostert 1–2 John Edwards 3 Nick Yelloly 4 Sheldon van der Linde 5 Ferrari apr with ARN Racing 488 GT3 8 Yuta Kamimura S 4 Hiroaki Nagai Manabu Orido Wochenspiegel Team Monschau by Rinaldi 22 Jochen Krumbach S 5 David Perel Leonard Weiss HubAuto Corsa 27 Nick Foster P 1–2, 4 Tim Slade 1–2 Nick Percat 1 Miguel Molina 2 Nick Cassidy 4 Heikki Kovalainen 227 Nick Cassidy P 3 Nick Foster Daniel Serra AF Corse[N 3] Spirit of Race[N 3] SMP Racing[N 3] 51 Paul Dalla Lana PA 1 Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda Sam Bird P 3 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi 52 Andrea Bertolini PA 3 Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels Toni Vilander 72 Mikhail Aleshin P 3 Miguel Molina Davide Rigon CarGuy Racing 777 James Calado P 4 Kei Cozzolino Miguel Molina Honda Modulo Drago Corse NSX GT3 034 Ryo Michigami P 4 Hiroki Otsu Daisuke Nakajima Team UpGarage 18 Takashi Kobayashi P 4 Kosuke Matsuura Tadasuke Makino Jenson Team Rocket RJN 22 Philipp Frommenwiler S 3 Matt McMurry Struan Moore Ricardo Sánchez Honda Team Motul 30 Bertrand Baguette P 2–5 Mario Farnbacher 2–3 Renger van der Zande Marco Bonanomi 4–5 Hideki Mutoh 4 Dane Cameron 5 Arrows Racing 98 Lic Ka Liu Am 4 Philip Ma Jacky Yeung Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG Team GOOD SMILE AMG GT3 00 Tatsuya Kataoka P 4 Kamui Kobayashi Nobuteru Taniguchi Mercedes-AMG Team Black Flacon[N 4] Black Falcon[N 4] 4 Yelmer Buurman P 3 Maro Engel Luca Stolz 6 Patrick Assenheimer S 3, 5 Hubert Haupt Gabriele Piana 3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Sergei Afanasiev 5 Mercedes-AMG Team SPS Automotive Performance 10 Yelmer Buurman P 5 Maximilian Götz Luca Stolz Strakka Racing[N 5] Mercedes-AMG Team Strakka Racing[N 5] 43 Dominik Baumann P 2 Adam Christodoulou Christina Nielsen 44 Gary Paffett P 2–5 Tristan Vautier Lewis Williamson SunEnergy1 Racing 751 Kenny Habul PA 1, 4 Dominik Baumann 1 Thomas Jäger Nico Bastian 4 Mikaël Grenier Mercedes-AMG Team Craft Bamboo Black Falcon[N 6] Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing[N 6] 77 Luca Stolz P 1, 4 Gary Paffett 1 Maro Engel Yelmer Buurman 4 Maximilian Götz Mercedes-AMG Team AKKA ASP 88 Vincent Abril P 3 Raffaele Marciello Fabian Schiller Mercedes-AMG Team Vodafone 888 Shane van Gisbergen P 1 Craig Lowndes Jamie Whincup Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing 888 Yelmer Buurman P 2 Maro Engel Luca Stolz 999 Maximilian Buhk P All Maximilian Götz 1–3 Raffaele Marciello 1–2, 4–5 Lucas Auer 3 Maro Engel 4–5 Nissan GTNET Motor Sports GT-R Nismo GT3 (2015) 5 Teruhiko Hamano PA 4 Kazuki Hoshino Eiji Yamada MP Racing 9 Joe Shindo Am 4 Yusaku Shibata Takumi Takata KCMG GT-R Nismo GT3 (2018) (0)18 Alexandre Imperatori P All Oliver Jarvis Edoardo Liberati 35 Josh Burdon P All Katsumasa Chiyo Tsugio Matsuda 1, 3–4 Alex Buncombe 2 Joao Paulo de Oliveira 5 Porsche Competition Motorsports / McElrea Racing 911 GT3 R (2018) 12 David Calvert-Jones PA 1 Kévin Estre Jaxon Evans Black Swan Racing 540 Jeroen Bleekemolen PA 1 Marc Lieb Tim Pappas EBM 911 Romain Dumas P 1 Mathieu Jaminet Sven Müller 912 Matt Campbell P 1 Dennis Olsen Dirk Werner Dinamic Motorsport 911 GT3 R (2019) 12 Earl Bamber P 5 Matt Campbell Laurens Vanthoor GPX Racing 20 Michael Christensen P 3, 5 Kévin Estre Richard Lietz Frikadelli Racing Team 31 Mathieu Jaminet P 5 Dennis Olsen Nick Tandy LM corsa 60 Juichi Wakisaka PA 4 Shigekazu Wakisaka Kei Nakanishi Rowe Racing 98 Romain Dumas P 3 Mathieu Jaminet Sven Müller 99 Matt Campbell P 3 Dennis Olsen Dirk Werner KÜS Team75 Bernhard 117 Earl Bamber P 3 Timo Bernhard Laurens Vanthoor 911 Romain Dumas P 5 Sven Müller Dirk Werner Park Place Motorsports[N 7] EBM[N 7] 911 Romain Dumas P 2, 4 Mathieu Jaminet Sven Müller Wright Motorsports[N 8] Absolute Racing[N 8] 912 Matt Campbell P 2, 4 Dennis Olsen Dirk Werner AMAC Motorsport 997 GT3 R 51 Andrew Macpherson S 4 Ben Porter Brad Shiels Sources:[4][5]

Icon Class P Pro Cup S Silver Cup PA Pro-Am Cup Am Am Cup

¹ – Car No. 75 was nominated for manufacturer points at Round 1, but was not nominated for manufacturer points at Round 4.

Rnd.	Circuit	Pole position	IGTC Winners	Bronze Winners	Winning Manufacturer
1	Bathurst	No. 999 Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing[N 9]	No. 912 EBM	No finishers	Mercedes-AMG
		Maximilian Buhk Maximilian Götz Raffaele Marciello	Matt Campbell Dennis Olsen Dirk Werner
2	Laguna Seca	No. 30 Honda Team Motul	No. 27 HubAuto Corsa	No entries	Mercedes-AMG
		Bertrand Baguette Mario Farnbacher Renger van der Zande	Nick Foster Miguel Molina Tim Slade
3	Spa-Francorchamps	No. 4 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon	No. 20 GPX Racing		Porsche
		Yelmer Buurman Maro Engel Luca Stolz	Michael Christensen Kévin Estre Richard Lietz
4	Suzuka	No. 42 BMW Team Schnitzer	No. 25 Audi Sport Team WRT	No. 75 SunEnergy1 Racing	Audi
		Augusto Farfus Martin Tomczyk Nick Yelloly	Kelvin van der Linde Dries Vanthoor Frédéric Vervisch	Kenny Habul
5	Kyalami	No. 31 Frikadelli Racing	No. 31 Frikadelli Racing	No entries	Porsche
		Mathieu Jaminet Dennis Olsen Nick Tandy	Mathieu Jaminet Dennis Olsen Nick Tandy

Scoring system

Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points, with the exception of Bathurst where a car simply had to cross the finish line to be classified. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race. A manufacturer only received points for its two highest placed cars in each round.

The results indicate the classification relative to other drivers in the series, not the classification in the race.

Pos. Driver Manufacturer BAT LGA SPA SUZ KYA Points 1 Dennis Olsen Porsche 1 Ret 6 3 1 73 2 Maximilian Götz Mercedes-AMG 2 2 8 4 5 62 3 Maximilian Buhk Mercedes-AMG 2 2 8 2 Ret 58 4 Raffaele Marciello Mercedes-AMG 2 2 10 2 Ret 55 5 Frédéric Vervisch Audi Ret 4 3 1 10 53 6 Mathieu Jaminet Porsche Ret 3 4 13 1 52 6 Matt Campbell Porsche 1 Ret 6 3 8 52 8 Dirk Werner Porsche 1 Ret 6 3 9 50 9 Luca Stolz Mercedes-AMG Ret 6 2 4 5 48 9 Yelmer Buurman Mercedes-AMG 6 2 4 5 48 10 Christopher Haase Audi 10 4 3 7 4 46 11 Maro Engel Mercedes-AMG Ret 6 2 2 Ret 44 12 Kévin Estre Porsche Ret 1 3 40 12 Michael Christensen Richard Lietz Porsche 1 3 40 12 Markus Winkelhock Audi 10 7 3 7 4 40 14 Dries Vanthoor Audi 4 15 1 10 38 14 Augusto Farfus Martin Tomczyk BMW 4 5 Ret 5 7 38 16 Kelvin van der Linde Audi Ret 7 1 10 32 17 Romain Dumas Sven Müller Porsche Ret 3 4 13 9 29 18 Miguel Molina Ferrari 1 Ret 11 25 18 Nick Foster Ferrari 12 1 Ret 24 25 18 Tim Slade Ferrari 12 1 25 18 Nick Tandy Porsche 1 25 18 Christopher Mies Audi 10 7 11 7 4 25 21 Nick Catsburg Mikkel Jensen Christian Krognes BMW Ret 8 9 Ret 2 24 22 Chaz Mostert BMW 4 5 22 23 Alexandre Imperatori Oliver Jarvis Edoardo Liberati Nissan 6 9 12 18 6 18 24 Shane van Gisbergen Craig Lowndes Jamie Whincup Mercedes-AMG 3 15 25 Maxime Soulet Bentley 5 11 Ret 11 10 25 Andy Soucek Bentley 5 16 21 16 10 25 Vincent Abril Bentley 5 10 Mercedes-AMG 10 25 Bertrand Baguette Honda 13 5 15 Ret 10 25 Mario Farnbacher Renger van der Zande Honda 13 5 10 25 Nick Yelloly BMW 5 10 25 Jules Gounon Jordan Pepper Bentley 7 Ret 20 8 11 10 25 Steven Kane Bentley 7 Ret 20 8 16 10 25 Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 7 8 10 31 Josh Burdon Katsumasa Chiyo Nissan 11 12 18 6 15 8 31 Tsugio Matsuda Nissan 11 18 6 8 32 Timo Bernhard Porsche 7 6 32 Sheldon van der Linde BMW 7 6 34 Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda Ferrari 8 4 34 Lucas Auer Mercedes-AMG 8 4 35 Marc Cini Dean Fiore Lee Holdsworth Audi 9 2 35 Gary Paffett Mercedes-AMG Ret Ret 13 9 Ret 2 35 Tristan Vautier Lewis Williamson Mercedes-AMG Ret 13 9 Ret 2 37 Dominik Baumann Mercedes-AMG Ret 10 1 37 Adam Christodoulou Mercedes-AMG 10 1 37 Christina Nielsen Mercedes-AMG 10 1 37 Fabian Schiller Mercedes-AMG 10 1 37 Tatsuya Kataoka Kamui Kobayashi Nobuteru Taniguchi Mercedes-AMG 10 1 Lucas Ordóñez Bentley 11 16 0 Markus Palttala Bentley 11 Ret 0 Ricardo Feller Jamie Green Audi 11 0 James Calado Ferrari Ret 11 0 Kei Cozzolino Ferrari 11 0 Nick Percat Ferrari 12 0 Alex Buncombe Nissan 12 0 Bentley Ret 21 Sergei Afanasiev Patrick Assenheimer Hubert Haupt Mercedes-AMG 12 0 Jochen Krumbach David Perel Leonard Weiss Ferrari 13 0 Gennaro Bonafede BMW 19 14 0 Robin Frijns Nico Müller René Rast Audi 14 0 Takashi Kobayashi Kosuke Matsuura Tadasuke Makino Honda 14 0 Michael Van Rooyen Henry Walkenhorst BMW 14 0 Alex Riberas Frank Stippler Audi 15 0 Marco Bonanomi Honda 15 Ret 0 Hideki Mutoh Honda 15 0 Joao Paulo de Oliveira Nissan 15 0 Rodrigo Baptista Bentley Ret 16 0 Pipo Derani Bentley 16 0 Richard Lyons Alessio Picariello Ryuichiro Tomita Audi 16 0 Philipp Frommenwiler Matt McMurry Struan Moore Ricardo Sánchez Honda 17 0 Ryo Michigami Hiroki Otsu Daisuke Nakajima Honda 17 0 Erik Maris Karim Ojjeh Marc Rostan BMW 19 0 Juichi Wakisaka Shigekazu Wakisaka Kei Nakanishi Porsche 19 0 Joe Shindo Yusaku Shibata Takumi Takata Nissan 20 0 Mikhail Aleshin Davide Rigon Ferrari 21 0 Seb Morris Bentley Ret 21 0 Teruhiko Hamano Kazuki Hoshino Eiji Yamada Nissan 22 0 Andrea Macpherson Ben Porter Brad Shiels Porsche 23 0 Nick Cassidy Ferrari Ret 24 0 Heikki Kovalainen Ferrari 24 0 Kenny Habul Mercedes-AMG Ret 12 0 Thomas Jäger Mercedes-AMG Ret 0 Garth Tander Audi Ret 0 David Calvert-Jones Jaxon Evans Porsche Ret 0 John Edwards BMW Ret 0 Sam Bird Alessandro Pier Guidi Ferrari Ret 0 Andrea Bertolini Niek Hommerson Louis Machiels Toni Vilander Ferrari Ret 0 Daniel Serra Ferrari Ret 0 Anders Buchardt David Pittard Henry Walkenhorst Don Yount BMW Ret 0 Callum MacLeod Bentley Ret 0 Yuta Kamimura Hiroaki Nagai Manabu Orido Ferrari Ret 0 Lic Ka Liu Philip Ma Jacky Yeung Honda Ret 0 Dane Cameron Honda Ret 0 Jeroen Bleekemolen Marc Lieb Tim Pappas Porsche WD Matt Neal Gordon Shedden Pete Storey Audi WD Drivers ineligible to score points Nico Bastian Mikaël Grenier Mercedes-AMG 12 Pos. Driver Manufacturer BAT LGA SPA SUZ KYA Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Pos.	Driver	Manufacturer	BAT	LGA	SPA	SUZ	KYA	Points
1	Kenny Habul	Mercedes-AMG	Ret			12		25
	Tim Pappas	Porsche	WD
Pos.	Driver	Manufacturer	BAT	LGA	SPA	SUZ	KYA	Points

Only the top two cars of each specific manufacturer is eligible for points.

Pos.	Manufacturer	Car	BAT	LGA	SPA	SUZ	KYA	Points
1	Porsche	911 GT3 R (2018) 911 GT3 R (2019)	1	3	1	3	1	133
			Ret	Ret	4	13	3
2	Mercedes-AMG	AMG GT3	2	2	2	2	5	126
			3	6	8	4	12
3	Audi	R8 LMS (2018) R8 LMS (2019)	9	4	3	1	4	85
			10	7	14	7	10
4	BMW	M6 GT3	4	5	9	5	2	66
			Ret	8	17	Ret	7
5	Ferrari	488 GT3	8	1	19	11	13	31
			12		Ret	23
6	Nissan	GT-R Nismo GT3	6	9	12	6	6	30
			11	12	16	17	15
7	Bentley	Continental GT3	5	11	16	8	11	24
			7	Ret	18	20	16
8	Honda	NSX GT3		13	5	14	Ret	10
					15	15
Pos.	Manufacturer	Car	BAT	LGA	SPA	SUZ	KYA	Points

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