Forty five cars, eight manufacturers and two Dutch teams on the Zandvoort entry list

Forty five GT3 cars are entered for the Zandvoort round of GT World Challenge Europe this weekend, a full grid for a Sprint Cup weekend. Eight manufacturers are represented, fifteen of the cars are in Pro, and two of the teams are Dutch.

Fifteen Pro cars in a field of 45

The Sprint Cup splits its grid four ways. Pro is the professional pairing, Gold and Silver are graded by driver rating, and Bronze pairs a professional with an amateur. At Zandvoort the split is fifteen Pro, eight Gold, twelve Silver and ten Bronze.

That is a deep Pro class by Sprint Cup standards, and it matters because the overall win almost always comes from it. It also means a third of the field is racing for something the timing screen does not show you, which is worth remembering when the gaps look strange.

Verstappen Racing and KPX are the Dutch entries

Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing has the number 3 in Pro, with Dani Juncadella and Chris Lulham sharing the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo. Peter Kox’s KPX Motorsport runs the number 77 BMW M4 GT3 Evo in Gold, with David Pittard alongside Jop Rappange.

Four Dutch drivers are on the list. Rappange is one. Morris Schuring has the number 2 Boutsen VDS Porsche in Pro, Thierry Vermeulen shares the number 69 Emil Frey Ferrari with Ben Green, also in Pro, and Flynt Schuring is in the number 89 Lionspeed Porsche in Silver, which puts the Schuring brothers in the same race in different classes.

Rossi shares the number 46 BMW with Max Hesse

Valentino Rossi is entered in Pro, in the number 46 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 Evo with Max Hesse. WRT has four cars here, as many as AF Corse: the 30 in Silver, the 31 and the 32 in Pro alongside Rossi’s 46.

AF Corse also brings four Ferraris, spread across Pro, Gold and Silver. Comtoyou Racing has three Aston Martins, Tresor Attempto three Audis.

Where the title contenders sit on the list

Five entries are covered by less than ten points with two rounds to run, and they are easy to pick out once you know the numbers. Kelvin van der Linde and Charles Weerts lead on 49.5 in the number 32 WRT BMW. Ricardo Feller and Bastian Buus are second on 47 in the number 80 Lionspeed Porsche. Juncadella is third on 44.5 in the number 3.

Behind them, Arthur Leclerc and Thomas Neubauer have 41 in the number 50 AF Corse Ferrari and Maro Engel and Lucas Auer 40 in the number 48 Winward Mercedes. Van der Linde also carries a five place grid penalty into Saturday, which we set out in our preview of the title fight.

Porsche brings nine cars, Lamborghini two

Porsche has the largest presence with nine 911 GT3 R entries, followed by Ferrari with eight 296 GT3 Evos. Mercedes-AMG and BMW have six each, Aston Martin and McLaren five each, Audi four and Lamborghini two, both of them the new Temerario GT3.

If you want the background on how the classes, the pit windows and the two race format work, we explain it in our GT World Challenge Europe guide.

Our watchlist: three cars that are not fighting for the title

The championship will be decided between five cars, so here are three others worth keeping an eye on. The number 88 Tresor Attempto Audi, because Carrie Schreiner is in it and Bronze at Zandvoort tends to reward the driver who can keep a clean line rather than the one who can lunge, which is the kind of weekend that suits her. We follow her and the rest of the women racing this season in Through Her Eyes.

The number 991 Paradine BMW, because Augusto Farfus is still quick enough to embarrass Pro cars on a Saturday and this circuit gives him nowhere to hide it. And the number 2 Boutsen VDS Porsche, because Morris Schuring is racing at home, in Pro, in front of a crowd that knows exactly who he is.

None of those three will change the title. All three will decide somebody else’s weekend, which at a circuit this narrow is the same thing.

The full Zandvoort entry list

Entry list as published by SRO Motorsports Group for the Zandvoort round, 18 to 20 September 2026.

Practice on Friday, two races over the weekend

The cars ran in free practice on Friday, and the weekend follows the usual Sprint Cup pattern from there: qualifying on Saturday morning, then two races of one hour, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, each with a pit stop and a driver change.

Tessa van Duin is at the circuit for us all weekend. We will have the qualifying and race reports here, and more of her photography with them.