SRO GT1 Series: the playground of the billionaires

The GT SRO championship organiser has created the GT1 Series category for enthusiasts and owners of hypercars.

SRO is the company that organises the most important car championships in the world in partnership with Blancpain. It has recently presented its calendar of events for 2020, but it has announced a novelty that has greatly appealed to all the billionaires whose hobbies revolve around four wheels.

This is the new GT1 Sportsclub series, a category in which the fortunate owners of the latest hypercars on the market will be able to push them to the limit and even race against each other. Stéphane Ratel, head of SRO, intends to take advantage of the current boom in the most extreme hypercars to support his new category.

Therefore, it will be common to see cars such as the Aston Martin Valkyrie or the McLaren Senna at the GT1 Sportsclub events.

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A fundamental premise of the new category is that it is aimed solely at enthusiasts who have a car of this calibre in their garage, and using it on public roads could mean a long stay in the nearest prison.

Therefore, the organiser wants owners of these hypercars to be able to enjoy these very expensive indulgences and for them not to be simply one more specimen in their collection.

SRO has planned two GT1 Series events

In principle, there will be two events in 2020. The first will take place at the Paul Ricard circuit (France) on 3 and 4 October. The second will be held in November, specifically on the 21st and 22nd at the Kyalami circuit (South Africa).

This project is still in the testing phase, so the organiser will be waiting to see whether the formula works. If the answer is positive, up to four more events could be added to the calendar in 2021. Although it may seem like just another championship, Stéphane Ratel, head of SRO Motorsports, confirmed that the category will not become a real championship in the future.

Many details about this series, aimed at billionaires eager to show who has the biggest one (the wallet, of course), are still to be determined and made known. We therefore do not yet know whether they will be typical trackdays in which the classification is based on the times recorded in the timed laps, or whether there will be a classic race.

If there were a race in which the cars fought wheel to wheel on track, the billionaires could stop being billionaires after two races: we don’t even want to imagine the repair bill for a collision between a McLaren Senna GTR and an Aston Martin Valkyrie.