GT World Challenge Europe

GT World Challenge Portimão 2026 results: race, classes and champions

GetSpeed wins by 5.062 seconds, Verstappen finishes ninth in the #3 and 2Seas wins the Bronze class as Marschall takes the title

Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed won the GT World Challenge Europe season finale at Portimão on Saturday 17 October. Ralf Aron, Maximilian Götz and Fabian Schiller finished 5.062 seconds ahead of the #80 Lionspeed GP Porsche after 94 laps and three hours. Max Verstappen finished ninth in the #3 Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing car, and Dennis Marschall clinched the Bronze Cup title with fifth in class.

Race report: GetSpeed wins the Portimão finale as Verstappen recovers from 24th to ninth.

GetSpeed wins by five seconds, top nine within 19

Pos No. Team Drivers Car Class Laps Gap
1 #17 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed Ralf Aron, Maximilian Götz, Fabian Schiller Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO Pro 94 –
2 #80 Lionspeed GP Ricardo Feller, Thomas Preining, Bastian Buus Porsche 911 GT3 R EVO Pro 94 +5.062
3 #2 Boutsen VDS Morris Schuring, Dorian Boccolacci, Alessio Picariello Porsche 911 GT3 R EVO Pro 94 +5.411
4 #71 Selected Car Racing Frederik Schandorff, Malte Ebdrup, Simon Birch Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO Gold 94 +7.692
5 #30 Team WRT Amaury Cordeel, Matisse Lismont, Ignacio Montenegro BMW M4 GT3 EVO Silver 94 +14.406
6 #59 Garage 59 Joseph Loake, Dean Macdonald, Jack Hawksworth McLaren 720S GT3 EVO Pro 94 +17.137
7 #998 Rowe Racing Ugo de Wilde, Tim Tramnitz, Jens Klingmann BMW M4 GT3 EVO Gold 94 +17.952
8 #6 GetSpeed Team Bartone Bros Anthony Bartone, Aurelien Panis, Cesar Gazeau Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO Silver 94 +18.266
9 #3 Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing Ben Barnicoat, Chris Lulham, Max Verstappen Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO Pro 94 +18.556
10 #50 AF Corse Albert Costa, Arthur Leclerc, Lilou Wadoux Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO Pro 94 +20.302

Gap is the gap to the winner. Joseph Loake set the fastest lap of the race in the #59 Garage 59 McLaren, a 1:43.817 on lap 37.

2Seas wins Bronze, Marschall takes the title

Class No. Team Drivers
Pro #17 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed Ralf Aron, Maximilian Götz, Fabian Schiller
Gold #71 Selected Car Racing Frederik Schandorff, Malte Ebdrup, Simon Birch
Silver #30 Team WRT Amaury Cordeel, Matisse Lismont, Ignacio Montenegro
Bronze #222 2Seas Motorsport Kiern Jewiss, Charles Dawson, Reece Barr

The #222 2Seas Motorsport Mercedes-AMG won the Bronze class in 13th overall, ahead of the #87 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG (18th) and the #42 Oman Racing by Century Motorsport BMW (26th). The #991 Paradine Competition BMW was fourth in class and the #74 Kessel Racing Ferrari of Dustin Blattner, Lorenzo Patrese and Dennis Marschall fifth, one lap down. That was enough for Marschall to win the Bronze Cup title.

Boutsen VDS started from pole

Qualifying: Boutsen VDS took pole. Full classification in our Portimão qualifying results.

Full entry list: Portimão 2026 entry list. Session times and how to watch: Portimão 2026 schedule.

Source: Race Final Results and Final Results Class, SRO noticeboard. Time penalties for track limits and Full Course Yellow infringements are included. The #58 Garage 59 McLaren (20th on the provisional sheet) was disqualified by stewards’ decision no. 61; the top 19 are unchanged.

Next season: GT World Challenge Europe 2027 calendar, all ten rounds and dates.

Who impressed you most at Portimão: GetSpeed, the Bronze-winning 2Seas crew or Verstappen in the #3? Tell us in the comments.

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Jakob van Putten is the founder and editor-in-chief of RNT-Motorsports. Racing started as a hobby: he has followed motorsport since 1994, and Max Verstappen's rise into Formula 1 made him follow it more closely than ever, from Formula 1 and Formula 2 to the FIA WEC, endurance racing, GT World Challenge and the NLS. He started RNT-Motorsports because he enjoys bringing the news himself, and because he hopes to get more people as enthusiastic about the sport as he is. Today he does that together with an enthusiastic team who share the same passion and keep RNT-Motorsports up to date every race weekend. He holds press accreditation at NLS and GT World Challenge events, granted per event rather than as a standing credential.

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