The 2024 GT Cup champions were awarded their season’s trophies in a glittering evening at the Casino de Madrid on Friday evening, alongside the other winners of the two other GT Sport-promoted series, the International GT Open, and the Euroformula Open.
The traditional GT Sport Awards Ceremony returned to the sumptuous halls of the Casino in the heart of Madrid already in Christmas gear, where 110 guests enjoyed the gala dinner prepared by the Casino de Madrid’s two Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncedo.
Joaquín Verdegay, Vice President of the Royal Spanish Motorsports Federation (RFEdA), Jesús Pareja, CEO of GT Sport, and Jean-Philippe Desfarge, Head of Customer Racing at Michelin awarded the prizes.
Iván Velasco, co-champion for the second year in a row, and Luca Ludwig were awarded as the 2024 Overall Champions, in front of the cheering Mertel Motorsport delegation, and heart-felt applauses awaited also the pair of young vice champions fielded by GDL Racing, Matteo Luvisi and Federico Al Rifai.
Leandro Martins and Dieter Svepes, the RACAR Motorsport pair that took the crown in the Am class after a sensational maiden season in the series, were no less acclaimed, while another year on, the Q1 Trackracing delegation had not enough arms to take back to Belgium all the silverware earned. Edgar Terium and Patrick Lamster, bosses of the champion Team, and third classified in Am Nico Vandierendonck, also collected the trophies of Nico Saelens-Stien Longin (3rd Overall) and Laurent Vandervelde-Nathan Brauns (Am Vice Champions).
With the GT Cup Europe, “a series embodying the true essence of customer racing” as underlined by Michelin’s Jean-Philippe Desfarge, climbing another ladder in 2024, the prospects for 2025 are “even more encouraging”, commented Jesús Pareja, “as we anticipate more teams and cars joining the series and more brands being represented”.