🏆 NEW LINE-UP FOR ENDURANCE TEAMS' CHAMPION: Tresor Attempto Racing return to the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo, with Alex Aka and Andrea Frassineti taking on the full season. Ariel Levi joins them in the Audi R8 LMS Evo II in the Endurance rounds.
📸 Tresor Attempto | #CIGT
✅ SPRINT LINE-UP COMPLETE: Pedro Ebrahim will partner up with earlier announced Jasin Ferati at Nova Race in the Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint this year. As confirmed before, Giuseppe Forenzi and Ian Rodríguez are set to pilot the other BMW M4 GT3 Evo.
📸 Nova Race | #CIGT
🇮🇹 CECCATO LINE-UP COMPLETE: Alfred Nilsson and William Alatalo join the earlier confirmed Filippo Barberi, Jacopo Cimenes, Riccardo Leone Cirelli and Filip Ugran at the two-car program of BMW Italia Ceccato Racing in the Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
✌️ TWO-CAR PROGRAM FOR CECCATO: The BMW Italia Ceccato Racing outfit will field two M4 GT3 Evos in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance. Filippo Barberi, Jacopo Cimenes, Riccardo Leone Cirelli and Filip Ugran are the first drivers to be announced.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🇮🇹 THIRD DRIVER AT EBIMOTORS: Team regulars Alessandro Baccani and Paolo Venerosi Pesciolini are set to remain at Ebimotors in 2026. They will share an Evo-upgraded Porsche with Leonardo Caglioni in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🇮🇹 FIRST MCLAREN IN ITALIANO GT SINCE 2015: Raptor Engineering are set to field a McLaren 720S GT3 Evo in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint this year. Factory driver Dean Macdonald will partner up with Riccardo Cazzaniga in the No. 59 car.
📸 Raptor | #CIGT
🎓 GRADUATING TO GT3: Giuseppe Forenzi and Ian Rodríguez are stepping up from the GT Cup to the GT3 category in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint this upcoming season, as they sign on with Nova Race to share the No. 55 BMW M4 GT3 Evo.
📸 Nova Race | #CIGT
🫡 FACTORY DRIVER TAKES DL RACING SEAT: Franck Perera will compete in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint this year, as DL Racing prepare for their debut in GT3. The Lamborghini works driver will share the V10 Huracán with a to-be-announced pro driver.
📸 SRO/JEP | #CIGT
2026 calendar:
1⃣ Misano* - May 9-10
2⃣ Vallelunga** - July 4-5
3⃣ Mugello*** - July 25-26
4⃣ Imola* - September 5-6
4⃣ Monza*** - October 10-11
*supporting #CIGT Endurance
**ACI Racing Weekend
***supporting #CIGT Sprint
➡️ ITALIAN SEASON FINALE MOVED: The final round of the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo, the Endurance race at Autodromo del Mugello, has been moved from October 25 to November 1 along with Italian F4, the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia and TCR Italy.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🇮🇹 FERATI RETURNS TO CIGT: Jasin Ferati, last year's runner-up in the Ferrari Challenge Europe Trofeo Pirelli, is coming back to the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo in 2026. He has signed on with Nova Race, which is switching from Honda to BMW.
📸 Ferrari S.p.A. | #CIGT
🩷💛💚 OREGON CONFIRM CIGT PROGRAM: Oregon Team are set to enter the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo this year. Enzo Geraci and Guido Luchetti will share the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 for the full season, with the extra Endurance driver to-be-announced.
📸 GT Sport | #CIGT
Kessel Racing return to the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo this year with two Ferraris, the No. 21 of brothers Giacomo and Giovanni Altoè as well as Oscar Ryndziewicz, and the No. 33 of Murat Çuhadaroğlu, David Fumanelli and Marco Pulcini.
📸 Marcel Wulf | #CIGT
🇮🇹 AM ENTRY FOR STRATIA: After having announced plans last December to enter Italiano Gran Turismo in 2026, Stratia Motorsport have revealed 'gentlemen' Alexey Denisov and Giuseppe Fascicolo as drivers of the Antonelli Motorsport-run AMG in the Sprint series.
📸 Stratia | #CIGT
🇮🇹 DONNO JOINS LAMBORGHINI IN CIGT: Eliseo Donno as well as Ligier JS Cup France champion Mehdi Bouarfa have signed on with DL Racing in Italiano Gran Turismo alongside the earlier announced Giacomo Pollini, Piero Randazzo, Luca Segù and Stéphane Tribaudini.
📸 SRO/JEP | #CIGT
🇦🇪➡️🇮🇹 DUBAI-BASED TEAM EXPANDS TO ITALY: Dragon Racing will field two Ferraris in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance this year. Axcil Jefferies, Xolile Letlaka and Stuart White of Into Africa Racing are the first trio to have been confirmed.
📸 Creventic | #CIGT
🏆 2024 CHAMPIONS RETURN AFTER ONE-YEAR HIATUS: Scuderia Baldini will enter a Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance this year. They think they are able to "convince" Giancarlo Fisichella to join them again for the 2026 season.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
Giacomo Pollini, reigning Sprint GT Cup champion Piero Randazzo, reigning Endurance GT Cup champion Luca Segù, and Stéphane Tribaudini have been announced as the first drivers of the new-for-2026 GT3 program of DL Racing in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo.
#CIGT
🖋️ FIRST AUDI ITALIA DRIVER SECURED: The four rings return to the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance this year, with Audi Sport Italia fielding an R8 LMS Evo II. Jody Lambrughi is the first driver to be announced for the four three-hour races.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🇮🇹 DUAL ITALIAN CAMPAIGN FOR ROOKIE: Antonelli Motorsport, run by Kimi Antonelli's father Marco, return to the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo in 2026. GT3 debutant Giuseppe Guirreri is announced as the first driver for both the Sprint and Endurance series.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🇪🇺🇮🇹 DOUBLE AUDI PROGRAM: Tresor Competition will continue in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS and Italiano Gran Turismo - Endurance and Sprint in both championships - with Audi. Andrea Frassineti has been confirmed as the first driver.
📸 SRO/JEP | #GTWorldEurope #CIGT
🇮🇹 DOUBLE PROGRAM WITH DOUBLE TT: Gilles Renmans will not only do the Endurance championship with Double TT Racing and with Ibrahim Badawy and Leonardo Colavita, he is also set to compete in Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint, sharing the 296 with Lorenzo Ferrari.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🎓 GT3 PROMOTION FOR FERRARI CHALLENGE WINNER: Gilles Renmans has signed on with Double TT Racing for the Italiano Gran Turismo Endurance next year. He will share a Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo with reigning Pro-Am champions Ibrahim Badawy and Leonardo Colavita.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🇸🇲 NEW SAMMARINESE TEAM ON THE GRID: Stratia Motorsport will enter the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint and Endurance with Mercedes-AMG next year. Though operated from its own factory in San Marino, the team is collaborating with Antonelli Motorsport.
📸 Stratia | #CIGT
🏆 GT CUP CHAMPIONS IN GT3: Diego Locanto's DL Racing have opened a new 2000 square-meter headquarters in Senigallia. They will enter three Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 cars in Italiano Gran Turismo next year, before switching to the new Temerario in 2027.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
🔄 OUT WITH HONDA, IN WITH BMW: Nova Race, which fielded the ACI-homologated Honda NSX GT3 Evo25 this year, is switching to the BMW M4 GT3 Evo for the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo in 2026. They also intend to expand on an international scale.
📸 Nova Race | #CIGT
Am:
1⃣ Cassarà / Clementi Pisani - 117 points
2⃣ Han - 103 [111] (-14)
3⃣ Magnoni / Rocca - 70 (-47)
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
Pro-Am:
1⃣ Michelotto / Zanon - 107 [115] points
2⃣ Ferrari / Raghunathan - 103 [111] (-4)
3⃣ Alatalo / Caglioni - 101 (-6)
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
📊 Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint drivers' championship season end results 🇮🇹
Overall:
1⃣ An. Frassineti - 104 [107] points
2⃣ Klingmann / Krohn - 100 [104] (-4)
3⃣ Liberati - 84 (-20)
4⃣ Di Amato - 67 (-37)
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
Marco Cassarà and Alberto Clementi Pisani come across the line fourth in class with the Audi R8 LMS Evo II of Tresor Attempto Racing to claim the Am title in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint.
📸 ACI Sport | #CIGT
