Four teams of the 2025 GT Cup Europe used the opportunity of the GT Sport Winter Test at Barcelona to test during two days. It was only a small representation of the 2025 field which should include over 25 cars, but it allowed Mertel Motorsport, GDL Racing and two of the new entries, LMR Motorsport and Faems Team to further prepare ahead of the season.
The two days had a similar physiognomy, with two dry sessions in the morning and the third one dominated by the rain, something that allowed to test in all conditions.
The Mertel Ferrari 488 Challenge of Tommaso Lovati – Iván Velasco was fastest in Day 1 (1.46.841), with the Faems Team Porsche 992 of Luca Franca – Ian Rodriguez taking the advantage on Day 2, with a time of 1.45.170 that would become the top reference of the entire test.
In the final combined ranking the Italian-Guatemalan pair preceded Fran Viel Bugliotti, the Argentine driver of the GDL Racing Porsche by 0s499, Simone Patrinicola-Luca Demarchi in the debuting Ferrari 296 Challenge of Mertel Motorsport (+0s686) and the 488 of the German squad entrusted to Tommaso Lovati-Iván Velasco.