Herberth Motorsport is in the pound seat to secure this year’s GT3 Teams’ championship at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA. The 2017 Overall GT Teams’ ‘Continents’ champion, winner of this year’s Hankook 24H PORTIMAO, took outright victory in Barcelona in 2016, 2018 and 2021, and has registered two Porsche 992 GT3 Rs (#91 and #92) in a bid to take a record-extending fourth outright win at the event. 

Herberth’s nearest title rival Saintéloc Junior Team (#18), victorious last time out in Misano, will similarly hope to become the first repeat overall winner of 2024 with its Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II. The French team is also just 18 points behind GT3-PRO/AM Teams’ standings leader E2P Racing (#90), the latter of which will be looking to secure its first GT3 category title with a class win at home with its Porsche 991.2 GT3 R.

Also in contention for GT3-PRO/AM honours, Juta Racing has registered two Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO IIs – one as a standalone entry (#72), the other in collaboration with Red Camel-Jordans.nl as ‘Red Camel by Juta Racing’ (#9) – and will hope to carry its overall podium-finishing form at Misano into Barcelona.  

Brutal bad luck eliminated Hofor Racing (#11) from contention in Misano almost in sight of the flag. Something the 2017 Overall GT Teams’ ‘Europe’ champion will hope to remedy with its Mercedes-AMG GT3 at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA. An event, incidentally, that the Swiss team won overall in 2013.

Poulsen Motorsport (#14) finished an impressive 4th overall at the 2022 Hankook 24H BARCELONA, its first competitive outing with CREVENTIC in more than seven years. The Danish team will no doubt hope to break the overall top three in 2024.

Following a comeback GT3-AM win in Misano, 2009 24H DUBAI winner Land Motorsport (#34) will look to repeat this run of form in Barcelona with its Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II, while reigning GT3 Teams’ champion Haas RT (#1), also representing the German brand in Catalunya, will look to replicate its overall runners-up spot at last year’s race. 

RD Signs – Siauliai racing team (#69) rounds out the GT3 entrants so far with its Lamborghini Huracán GT3. The Lithuanian team took its first GT3 class podium last time out in Misano, and will hope for a similarly strong run at the season-closing Hankook 24H BARCELONA at which it secured last year’s GTX Teams’ championship.

Optimum Motorsport (#4) and ARC Bratislava (#44) rounds out the GT3 entries with a McLaren 720S GT3 EVO and Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO respectively.

2022 992 Teams’ ‘Europe’ champion Red Ant Racing (#903 and #904) is on course to regain its title at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA. Despite a disastrous weekend in Misano, the Belgian team currently holds 1st and 2nd in the 992 standings, has taken three class wins already this season, and took a category win in Barcelona in 2022. 

HRT Performance will similarly field two entries on 13-14-15 September: one a standalone Porsche (#967), the other reviving its collaboration with the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (#931). The Hankook 24H BARCELONA will also be QMMF by HRT’s first 24H SERIES event in Europe.

Fellow series mainstay MRS GT-Racing has registered a Porsche 992 GT3 Cup (#988). In a busy month of competition with CREVENTIC, the German team, a two-time podium finisher already at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA, registered four Porsches for the inaugural 992 Endurance Cup. Mühlner Motorsport (#918) – like MRS GT-Racing, a frontrunner in Prototype Cup Germany – is pulling similar double duty with CREVENTIC at both the Hankook 24H BARCELONA and the 992 Endurance Cup.

Reigning 992-AM Teams’ champion RPM Racing (#907) is hoping to successfully defend its title at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA. The German team finished 2nd overall in 992 last time out in Misano, and, tellingly, took class victory at CREVENTIC’s most recent 24-hour race in Portimão. Nearest rival Orchid Racing Team (#917), which finished just behind RPM Racing in Misano incidentally, will be similarly hot on the German team’s heels, and will be keen to replicate its GT4 class win in Barcelona in 2019. 

Reigning TCR Teams’ champion Holmgaard Motorsport (#902) and series mainstay NKPP Racing by Bas Koeten Racing (#992) make their 24H SERIES returns in Barcelona. Holmgaard in particular will be eying a maiden podium in its first season of CREVENTIC competition with Porsche’s 992-generation GT3 Cup. 

Spain’s Road to Le Mans (#949) rounds out the 992 field, and, with an all-Spanish line-up confirmed, will be a hot favourite among the local crowd!

Vortex V8 (#701 and #702) and Razoon – More Than Racing (#714) are the sole GTX entrants confirmed. The French independent has a rich history at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA, having secured the GTX Teams’ championship at the event in 2021, a class win as ‘GC Automobile Factory’ in 2013, and unveiled its brand-new Vortex ‘2.0’ ahead of last year’s race.

Austria’s Razoon – More Than Racing meanwhile comes into this year’s Hankook 24H BARCELONA as the event’s reigning class winner.

Lionspeed GP (#424) will be looking to finish a strong maiden campaign as a standalone entity with its fourth podium of 2024 – if not a first class win – for its Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport.

ST Racing (#428), the Overall GT Teams’ champion of 2021, makes a one-off return to the GT4 category on 13-14-15 September with the latest generation BMW M4 GT4. Memorably, on its most recent 24H SERIES outing in 2022, the Canadian team led much of the opening half of that year’s Hankook 24H BARCELONA. 

Spain’s NM Racing Team (#415), winner of the Hankook 24H BARCELONA overall in 2017 and in-class in 2018, will be gunning for a hattrick at the 25th edition. The Barcelona-based squad was also in contention for a GTX podium last year on the series debut of Mercedes’ AMG GT2.

Team Africa Le Mans (#455) makes a welcome return to the 24H SERIES in Barcelona. The South African team last competed in back-to-back CREVENTIC events at Imola and Misano in 2017, and brings a seven-year hiatus to a close with its Ginetta G55 GT4.

Series staple CWS Engineering (#478), a class winner at the Hankook 24H BARCELONA in 2021, and Lithuania’s GSR Motorsport (#405), a podium finisher earlier this year in Portimão, have similarly registered a Ginetta G55 apiece for the 25th edition. 

Britain’s Venture Enginering (#421) is the final GT4 entrant this weekend, and makes its 24H SERIES debut with a Mercedes-AMG GT4.