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Revision as of 10:43, 17 February 2016
Competition | Supercup |
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Title Sponsor | TBC |
Platform Used | rFactor 2 |
Rounds | 18 |
Mod Used | Formula Renault 3.5 2014 |
Carshape | |
Engine Supplier(s) | GPVWC |
Tyre Supplier(s) | GPVWC |
Drivers | - |
Teams | 14 |
Drivers' Champion | |
Teams' Champion | |
Supercup Seasons | |
2005 · 2006 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 |
GPVWC series in 2016 |
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Career Ladder |
Superleague |
Other series |
Masters Series |
The 2016 Supercup season will be the 9th GPVWC Supercup season.
Contents
Teams and drivers
The amount of team slots was reduced from 15 to 14 for the 2016 season, co-inciding with the move to rFactor 2 for the 2016 Career Ladder series.
The following teams have confirmed their 2016 participation.
Team changes
- Wauters Automotive and Storm Racing Team were both promoted to the Superleague.
- Smile Power Racing's entry was taken over by Evolution Motorsports, the team nationality being accordingly changed to German.
- Neither Walk Racing, PB Racing or Positive SimRacing continued into the 2016 season.
- TSA Racing, having withdrawn from the 2015 championship mid-season, also did not continue into 2016.
New entries
- Ice Cold Racing, Team Proline and Karjala Racing were all promoted from the Formula Challenge.
Returning entries
- Centurion Grand Prix was also promoted from Formula Challenge, returning to the Supercup following a year's absence. However, during pre-season, team boss Terence Grech completed his takeover of the team following his arrival in February 2015 and renamed the outfit to TG Racing. The nationality of the team was accordingly switched to Maltese.
- Racing Team Schroten was promoted from Formula Challenge, returning to the Supercup after four years of absence.
2016 Calendar
Calendar changes
- The Portuguese and Singapore Grands Prix were both removed from the calendar
- The calendar was extended to 18 events seeing the return of the Dutch and Mexican Grands Prix after a 3 and 4 year absence respectively whilst also seeing the first running of the Russian Grand Prix.
Preceded by: 2015 Supercup season |
GPVWC Supercup season 2016 |
Succeeded by: 2017 Supercup season |