The GT World Challenge America schedule will feature six event weekends in 2020.
The GT World Challenge America schedule will feature six event weekends in 2020.

Six Weekends For GT World Challenge America

AUSTIN, Texas – Officials from the SRO Motorsports Group have confirmed the schedule for the GT World Challenge America series.

The season will see the sports car series compete across a six-race weekend schedule at North America’s top road courses.

The GT season opener shifts to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park during Victoria Day weekend on May 16-17. From Canada the series heads south to historic Virginia Int’l Raceway on June 6-7.

California’s wine country is the next stop on the calendar with a visit to Sonoma Raceway on Aug. 8-9. Aug. 29-30 marks the return of the series to another challenging and historic American road course, Road America.

The penultimate round of the championship will take place at historic Watkins Glen Int’l on Sept. 19-20. The season will end at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Oct. 3-4, with the event also featuring the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli.

The Indianapolis 8 Hours event will combine the two series for the first time. The best International GT teams will battle GT World Challenge America teams as part of the International GT Challenge schedule that also features the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour, Total 24 Hours of Spa, Suzuka 10 Hours, and Kyalami 9 Hour.

This will be the series’ first long-distance endurance race that will count toward the championship in recent decades.