Dijon and the Hungaroring join the GT3 Revival Series, and the Nürburgring drops off the 2027 calendar
The GT3 Revival Series will run five rounds in 2027, and two of them are at circuits the series has never used. Dijon-Prenois and the Hungaroring join the calendar, the Nürburgring drops off after a single season, and the weekend that matters most stays where it is, alongside the 24 Hours of Spa in June.
In this article
Five rounds between April and October
SRO Motorsports Group and Peter Auto, who co-organise the series and host one event each in turn, published the final 2027 schedule on Friday. It opens at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in early April and closes at the Hungaroring in the first weekend of October, with testing at Circuit Paul Ricard from 15 to 17 March as part of Peter Auto’s annual test days at the French track.
| Rd | Date | Circuit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 15-17 Mar | Circuit Paul Ricard | Peter Auto test days |
| 1 | 2-4 Apr | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya | |
| 2 | 7-9 May | Dijon-Prenois | New |
| 3 | 23-27 Jun | Spa-Francorchamps | 24 Hours of Spa |
| 4 | 27-29 Aug | Circuit Paul Ricard | |
| 5 | 1-3 Oct | Hungaroring | New |
Dijon fills the slot that was left blank at Spa
A provisional version of this calendar already existed. Stéphane Ratel set it out during his annual press conference at the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, and it carried one date with no circuit attached. Dijon-Prenois now has it, in the second weekend of May.
It is a logical name to reach for. Dijon is a Peter Auto regular, it is short, quick and unfashionable in the way this series tends to like, and it asks nothing of a GT3 car of that generation that the car cannot give. It also keeps the first half of the season inside France and Spain, which matters for a grid that largely pays its own way.
Paul Ricard takes the late August date
The second change is the one the Nürburgring will notice. Paul Ricard has replaced it in the 27 to 29 August slot, which means the French circuit now appears twice on a five round calendar, once for the pre-season test and once for a race weekend.
The Nürburgring hosted the series this year, and it produced one of the cleaner weekends of the season. Christoph von Oeynhausen won both races there in the BMW Z4 GT3, and the title picture changed more in those two hours than it had all summer. None of that was enough to keep the date.
No reason has been given, and it would be guesswork to supply one. What can be said is that Germany is off the schedule altogether, and that France now holds two of the five race weekends as well as the test.
Cars homologated between 2006 and 2013
The formula does not change. The series is open to GT3 cars homologated between 2006 and 2013, the generation that is too old for a current grid and too young to be treated as a museum piece, and it splits them into Pro-Am and Am. Both classes have held their entry numbers through 2026.
That window is the whole point. It puts the Ferrari 458 GT3, the BMW Z4 GT3, the Audi R8 LMS and the first Mercedes SLS alongside each other in period-correct form, on circuits they were designed around. If you want the longer explanation of how the series works and where it sits next to the modern championship, we set it out in GT3 Revival Series explained and in our GT World Challenge Europe guide.
Our conclusion: the calendar is built around Spa
Look at the five dates and one of them is not like the others. Barcelona, Dijon, Paul Ricard and the Hungaroring are three day meetings. Spa runs from 23 to 27 June, because the series is there as part of the 24 Hours of Spa, in front of a crowd that did not come for it and will watch it anyway.
That single weekend is worth more to a series like this than the other four combined, and the calendar around it is arranged so nothing competes with it. April and May are close to home and cheap to reach. August is a month before the finale. October at the Hungaroring is the one real expansion, and it is placed at the end, where a new market can be tested without putting the season at risk.
It is a careful calendar rather than an ambitious one, and for a series going into only its second season on cars that were racing more than a decade ago, careful is the right instinct.
Barcelona closes 2026 first
Before any of this, the current season has a finale. The 2026 title is settled at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 3 and 4 October, and Jean-Luc Beaubelique arrives there with the championship in reach.
Entries for 2027 are handled through Peter Auto and SRO directly. We will have the Barcelona finale covered, and we will update this page when the series confirms formats and session times for next year.
