The Michelin 24H European Series reconvenes for the second round of the season, the Michelin 12H Spa Francorchamps next weekend with a 39 car provisional entry across the five classes.
In the headline GT3 class, Scuderia Praha – who won the race back-to-back in 2018 and 2019 – has confirmed it will field Josef Král alongside father and son Miroslav and Matus Výboh, plus Dennis Waszek in the #56 Ferrari 296 GT3.
Kessel Racing, which was unfortunate not to claim victory in the opening round of the season in Italy and is fourth in the standings, will announce their line-up for their Ferrari 296 GT3 later on.
Fellow Ferrari 296 GT3 squad Era Motorsport, third in the standings and the highest placed team entered for Spa, will run the quartet which did so well at the Michelin 12H MUGELLO, Jake Hill, Ryan Dalziel, Dwight Merriman and Kyle Tilley. Pellin Racing has Lisa Clark, Kyle Marcelli and Felice Jelmini in its Ferrari 296 GT3 plus Paolo Ruberti and Terje Haugen confirmed in its Ferrari 488 GT3 EVO.
Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO squad HOFOR Racing, which deserved more from the opening event of the season, will enter husband and wife Alexander and Chantal Prinz as well as Chantal’s father Michael Kroll, and they will be joined by ELMS regular Torsten Kratz.
Also running the German marque will be Red Ant Racing, with brothers Ayrton and Yannick Redant teaming with Kobe de Breucker and Kenneth Heyer in its #93 car, while Viper Niza Racing will enter its #65 machine for Douglas Khoo, Dominic Ang and Melvin Moh. It’s worth remembering too, Mercedes-AMG was the victorious marque last year at Spa.
Porsche is represented in GT3 by three crews. Proton Huber Competition is the first, with Klaus Bachler, Manuel Lauck and Jörg Dreisow sharing the #73 Porsche 911 GT3 R (992).
Jonathan Hui and Chris Froggatt partner with overall Michelin 24H Series Middle East Trophy Champion Loek Hartog at the wheel of a new-look Ziggo Sport Tempesta Racing Porsche 911.
The third 911 GT3 R is a late addition to the entry from Herberth Motorsport. The German team’s #91 example will attract plenty of attention as it is a developmental 2026 chassis featuring Porsche’s forthcoming 2026 evo kit.
Reigning IMSA GTD Pro Champion Laurin Heinrich is set to share driving duties with Ralf Bohn and Alfred Renauer.
HAAS RT brings a pair of Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II cars with Ameerh Naran and Tom Jackson partnering in the #2 entry, while Xavier Knauf, Gregory Servais and Olivier Bertels will team-up in the squad’s sister #21 car.
Also fielding Audi R8 power will be Juta Racing with Tim Müller, Nicola Michelon and Arunas Geciauskas, and also Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport with the trio Vasily Vladykin, Andrey Solukovtsev and David Pogosyan.
ARC Bratislava, second in the GT3-AM class heading to Belgium, field father and son Miro and Adam Konopka in its Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO with Jiatong Liang and Andrzej Lewandowski.
E2P Racing will run Pablo Burguera, Antonio Sainero and Oliver Campos in its Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 EVO and Comtoyou Racing’s Aston Martin will be raced by Frédéric Jousset, Sebastián Álvarez and Sérgio Sette Camara.
992
Current points leaders of the overall 992 class Red Camel-Jordans.nl welcome back Ivo Breukers to the driving seat at Spa, having frustratingly missed Mugello due to injury, and he will be partnered as always by sons Rik and Luc Breukers and Fabian Danz in their Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992).
Closest challengers in the points table after round one, and leaders of the 992-AM class, RPM Racing enter Tracy Krohn, Niclas Jönsson and Philip Hamprecht, while overall third placed team SebLajoux Racing fields the eponymous Sebastien Lajoux, Stephane Perrin and Paul Meijer.
Mühlner Motorsport brings two Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) cars to Spa-Francorchamps, the #921 which challenged so well at Mugello will be raced by Martin Rump, Valters Zviedris and Julian Hanses while the No.918 has duo Marlon Menden and Benjamin Paque confirmed.
Bas Koeten Racing will also be busy with a pair of cars, running the Ajith Kumar Racing by BKR entry of Tamil actor Ajith Kumar, Mathieu Detry and Fabian Duffieux – fourth place in the overall 992 standings – and also the Van Berlo Motorsport by BKR Porsche of father and son Marcel and Glenn van Berlo, and Bart van Helden.
Holmgaard Motorsport enters brothers Magnus and Jonas Holmgaard, Martin Vedel Mortensen and Patrick Steen Rasmussen, 9und11 Racing has confirmed Georg Goder, Ralf Oehme, Tim Scheerbarth and Martin Schlüter, while Escuderia Faraon will run Padlo Bras Silvero, Pedro Miguel Lourinho Bras and Fernando Gonzalez Gonzalez.
GTX, GT4 and TCE-TCX
Vortex V8, which leads the GTX points standings with its #702 Vortex 2.0 entry, has confirmed a changed line-up of Julien Boillot and Alexandre De Bernardinis in the car piloted in Mugello by team owners Arnaud and Olivier Gomez.
In the sister #701 car the driver trio is unchanged with Lionel Amrouche, Philippe Bonnel and Cyril Calmon taking on the challenge.
Darren Currie has two new team-mates in the 111 Racing entered IRC GT car, Danny Studdard stepping in for Grant Donaldson and Geoffrey Emery, and GTX also welcomes Belgian squad Speed Lover with Olivier Dons and Kurt Hensen piloting a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) fitted with the NLS (Nurburgring Langstrecken-Series) kit.
The battle in GT4 sees points leaders Venture fielding impressive Mugello class winners Matthew Higgins, Matthew George, Christopher Jones and Neville Jones in the #421 Mercedes-AMG GT4.
Competition will come from Hamofa Motorsport’s BMW M4 GT4 EVO (G82), raced by Rob, Kris and Mark Verhoeven, and SRS Team Sorg Rennsport has entered a pair of Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport cars. The #427 will be piloted by Thierry Chkondali, Michel Sallenbach and Marc Girard while the #452 will be driven by Guy Stewart and Benito Tagle.
Entries in TCE-TCX come from asBest Racing, which is set to run Junichi Umemoto, Christian Ladurner and Pia Ohlsson in its Cupra TCR DSG which, of course, claimed the class title in the Michelin 24H SERIES Middle East Trophy at the start of the year, and the J-Mec engineering team which will run Kevin Clarke and James Collins in its BMW M3 E46.
Part 1 of the Michelin 12H SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, which will run for a duration of five hours, is scheduled to commence at 12.50 local time on Saturday, 19 April, with part two – the remaining seven hours of action – launching on Sunday, 20 April, at 10.50 local time.
All of the action will be LIVE on Creventic Motorsports TV on YouTube.
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