GT World Challenge: Corvette Racing joins as 10th team for 2025

With the addition of Corvette, a record 10 manufacturers will fight for this year’s global GT World Challenge powered by AWS title.

Corvette Racing joins the existing list of Aston Martin, Audi Sport, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, Lamborghini, McLaren, Porsche and reigning champions Mercedes-AMG. Together, they will battle for points in 53 races staged at 30 events across the four continental GT World Challenge series in America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

There is one exception: 2025 begins on February 2 at the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour, which retains its place on the global schedule after forming part of the GT World Challenge Australia calendar last term.

The combined classification for all GT World Challenge races recognizes the manufacturer that performs most consistently across SRO’s four continental GT3 series. Save for Australia’s addition in 2021, its format has remained largely unchanged since debuting in 2019, but there will be a significant development this year thanks to a revised points scoring system that to some degree mirrors Intercontinental GT Challenge:

• Points are awarded per the overall classification of each race.
• A maximum of two cars per registered manufacturer will score points.
• Cars from manufacturers not entered in the 2025 GT World Challenge will be considered invisible. Their positions and points will be redistributed to the next eligible manufacturer’s entry.
• Third, fourth etc cars from eligible manufacturers that finish inside the top ten will be invisible and their points redistributed to the next eligible car.
• Class results no longer contribute towards this points total.
• Global results and points attribution remains separate to each continental series’ own championship.

The 53 races comprise seven endurance and 46 sprint contests staged between February and November. They include three IGTC rounds – Bathurst, the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa and Indianapolis 8 Hour presented by AWS – two of which also count towards their respective European and American championships.

There are also three new GT World Challenge destinations: the Beijing Street Circuit, Mandalika International Circuit (Asia), and Hampton Downs in New Zealand which closes out both the Australian and global championships.

In terms of the global classification, the duration of each race determines the number of points available. They are only scored per the final overall global GT World Challenge result.

• Points awarded for races lasting up to 90 minutes: 25 – 18 – 15 – 12 – 10 – 8 – 6 – 4 – 2 – 1
• Points awarded for races lasting between three and 12 hours: 50 – 36 – 30 – 24 – 20 – 16 – 12 – 8 – 4 – 2
• Points awarded at the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa: 100 – 72 – 60 – 48 – 40 – 32 – 24 – 16 – 8 – 4

The new format, which was assessed behind closed doors throughout 2024, is designed to be easier to understand and calculate without compromising each manufacturer’s results. Reigning champions Mercedes-AMG would also have won the title using the new system.

However, the previous format has not been abandoned entirely. It now underpins the Customer Performance Award, which considers each manufacturer’s class as well as overall results per race. The number of cars representing each manufacturer is also factored into the points calculation.