THE inaugural Global Touring Cars have announced their first winners for the 2016 season.
Sasol GTC Championship celebrated the milestones and winners from the first season of racing in South Africa, and on Thursday February 16 the winners in their respective categories were honoured.
Championship trophies were handed out to champion manufacturer BMW South Africa, GTC Production champion Daniel Rowe, third place finisher in the standings Mathew Hodges, championship runner-up Gennaro Bonafede and the first Sasol GTC champion, Michael Stephen.
The series had eight cars competing in the GTC and six production cars on the grid. Fior, the 2017 edition series, will be seeing a new addition, a collaboration between Mini and Signature Motorsport.
The champion in 2016 was the driver who had accumulated the highest number of points during the season. Additional points could be scored according to the results of the qualifying session to establish the grid positions for both races at all national championship race meetings.
The Sasol GTC Championship is based on the principles of some of the world’s most successful motorsport series, such as the Australian Supercar Series and British Touring Cars.
For the first time since the Super Touring Car series was held in South Africa during the 1990s, the country now has a globally relevant racing series that comprises a field of world-class 2.0-litre turbo-powered racing cars that fans and consumers alike will be able to identify with.
The first meeting of 2017 will take place on March 25 at Killarney Raceway, Cape Town.
