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2020 Superleague season

Competition	Superleague
Title Sponsor
Platform Used	rFactor 2
Rounds	16
Mod base	GPVWC CL modular
Carshape base	F1 based
Engine Supplier(s)	Talos, Valiant, Quasar, Reventón 1600cc turbocharged V6
Tyre Supplier(s)	GPVWC brand G
Drivers
Teams	15
Drivers' Champion
Teams' Champion
Superleague Seasons
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The 2020 Superleague season will be the 21st GPVWC Superleague season. Jannick Bock enters the season as defending Drivers' Champion, and Evolution Motorsports as the reigning Constructors' Champions.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are due to compete in the 2020 season. All teams use GPVWC brand tyres. As of December 2019, all car numbers are still subject to change.

Entrant	Constructor	Base	Chassis	Power unit	Race Drivers			Test/Reserve Driver(s)
					No.	Driver Name	Rounds
Evolution Motorsports	Evolution–TBD	Kirchhain	EMR-03*	TBD	15			TBC
					27
Abruzzi Esports	Abruzzi–Valiant	Liverpool	ABMP-20*	Valiant VA20	5			TBC
					14
Red Archer Virtual Racing Team	Red Archer–Quasar	Rethymnos	RA220*	Quasar QSR-03	70	Rait Kilk		TBC
					76	Matthias Muuss
Edge Esports	Edge–Quasar	Zolder	EE03-SLQ*	Quasar QSR-03	91	Daniel Brewer		Jack Mayor
					96	Maciej Mlynek
Flag-to-Flag SimRacing	FTF–TBD	Guildford	F20-SL*	TBD	32			TBC
					57
Scuderia Basilea	Basilea–Quasar	Binningen	JPS2*	Quasar QSR-03	66			TBC
					89
Pescara Edonis Engineering	Edonis–Reventón	Groningen	E20E*	Reventón RE-02	4	Adam Maguire		Menno Klont
					7	Eros Masciulli
Green Stripes Racing	Green Stripes–TBD	Niedersachsen	GSR-20*	TBD	11			TBC
					77
MadCape Racing Team	MadCape–TBD	Cape Town	MSL-020*	TBD	19			TBC
					21
Streetfighter Racing Systems	SRS–TBD	Sydney	SRS-20*	TBD	12	Florian Geier		TBC
					95
Hawkeye Racing	Hawkeye–Talos	Lake District	RS20*	Talos 9D-20	2			TBC
					3
Red Arrow Racing	Red Arrow–Reventón	England	TBC	Reventón RE-02	10	David Fidock		George Sutton
					65	Chris Butcher
Cosmo Seiki Japan	Cosmo–TBC	Hamamatsu	TBD	TBC	6			TBC
					9
Holland Racing Team	HRT–Reventón	Alkmaar	TBC	Reventón RE-02	8	Laurent Keersmaekers		Jannis Wollborn
					86	Stéphane Rouault
Chaos Engineering	Chaos–TBC	Sussex	TBD	TBC	71	Luca D'Amelio		TBC
					98	Tom Satherley

^*Name is speculative pending confirmation

Team changes

• Epic Racing Team, Measuric Racing and YTF1 all withdrew from GPVWC after the end of the 2019 season.
• Storm Racing Team took the unusual step of returning all the way back to Formula Challenge for the 2020 season.
• Having competed in the 2018 and 2019 seasons under the ACR constructor name as part of a merger with Avid Chronic Racing which ended during the 2019 season, Vod:Bul Racing initially reverted to their original constructor name for 2020, before rebranding as Abruzzi Esports piror to the start of the season.

New entries

• Chaos Engineering, Cosmo Seiki Japan, Holland Racing Team and reigning champions Red Arrow Racing were all promoted from Superleague Lights.
• Despite appearing on the grid since 2018 as part of the now-reversed merger with Vod:Bul Racing, Avid Chronic Racing initially reappeared as an entirely new, separate entity in 2020, before withdrawing their entry prior to the start of the season.

Driver changes

• Maciej Mlynek moved from Scuderia Basilea to Edge Esports, replacing Petar Brljak, who had chosen to focus elsewhere in 2020..
• Rait Kilk moved from the now-defunct Epic Racing Team to Red Archer Virtual Racing Team for 2020, replacing Fabio Sixta.
• Double World Champion David Fidock moved from Hawkeye Racing to debutants Red Arrow Racing.
• Stephane Rouault moved from VBM eSports to debutants Holland Racing Team.
• Adam Maguire makes his full-time debut for Edonis Engineering, replacing Germano Zappala.
• Chris Butcher and Laurent Keersmaekers, having driven some races in 2019 as substitutes for Streetfighter Racing Systems and Scuderia Basilea respectively, became full-time drivers for debutants Red Arrow Racing and Holland Racing Team respectively.
• Luca D'Amelio and Tom Satherly make their full-time debuts in 2020, both driving for debutants Chaos Engineering.

Technical changes

• The number of tyre compounds available during the season was reduced from 5 to 3. As a consequence, teams no longer had to choose which three of the tyre compounds they could use at each Grand Prix.

2020 Calendar

The 2020 calendar follows the 16-round limit introduced in 2019.

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit	Date	Start Time
				GMT	BST
1	Australian Grand Prix	Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne	TBA	19:00	—
2	Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	TBA	19:00	—
3	Turkish Grand Prix	Istanbul Park , Turkey	TBA	19:00	—
4	Dutch Grand Prix	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort	TBA	18:00	19:00
5	Azerbaijan Grand Prix	Baku City Circuit, Baku	TBA	18:00	19:00
6	Canadian Grand Prix	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal	TBA	18:00	19:00
7	French Grand Prix	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet	TBA	18:00	19:00
8	British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire	TBA	18:00	19:00
9	German Grand Prix	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim	TBA	18:00	19:00
10	Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa	TBA	18:00	19:00
11	Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza	TBA	18:00	19:00
12	Singapore Grand Prix	Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore	TBA	18:00	19:00
13	Russian Grand Prix	Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	TBA	18:00	19:00
14	Japanese Grand Prix	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	TBA	18:00	19:00
15	United States Grand Prix	Circuit of the Americas, Austin	TBA	18:00	19:00
16	Brazilian Grand Prix	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	TBA	19:00	—

Testing

The 2019 testing schedule was as follows:

Test	Date	Venue
Preseason Test #1	TBC	TBD
Preseason Test #2	TBC	TBD
Preseason Test #3	TBC	TBD
Preseason Test #4	TBC	TBD
Young Driver Test	TBC	Circuit of the Americas, Austin

Calendar changes

• The Malaysian, Spanish and, controversially, Monaco Grands Prix were removed from the calendar. The Malaysian round had only been reintroduced in 2019, while the Spanish Grand Prix had been held, at different venues, since 2002. The Monaco Grand Prix, however, had been held every year since the formation of GPVWC, with the only exception of during the curtailed 2001 season.
• The Dutch, French and Russian Grands Prix were reintroduced. The French race was last held in 2018 while Russia had been absent since the end of 2017. The Dutch Grand Prix, together with Zandvoort, was last held in 2012, despite an aborted attempt to hold the Grand Prix at Assen in 2016.

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