2010 FIA GT3 European Championship
The 2010 FIA GT3 European Championship season was the fifth season of the FIA GT3 European Championship. The season commenced on 1 May at Silverstone and ended on 10 October at Circuit Zolder. The season featured six double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 60 minutes. Most of the events were support races to the newly formed FIA GT1 World Championship.
Despite FIA's efforts to slow down the Callaway Competition-entered Chevrolet Corvette of Christian Hohenadel and Daniel Keilwitz via extensive performance balancing, the pairing finished the season as champions, taking four victories to secure the title with a meeting to spare; the second such championship crown for a team running a Corvette after the 2008 triumph of French duo Arnaud Peyroles and James Ruffier.
The championship-winning margin for Hohenadel and Keilwitz was 46 points over the Prospeed Competition Porsche of Paul van Splunteren and Marco Holzer, who took two wins over the course of the season at Portimão and Zolder. Another Corvette, run by Graff Racing, finished in third place with drivers Joakim Lambotte and Mike Parisy, who won both races at Brno. Four other duos took race victories during the season; Siso Cunill and Tim Bergmeister of Trackspeed won the season-opening race at Silverstone, Kenneth Heyer and Bernd Herdlhofer, and Csaba Walter and Claudia Hürtgen won at Jarama for Team Rosberg and Schubert Motorsport respectively, with the other Schubert Motorsport car of Patrick Söderlund and Edward Sandström winning at Zolder.
Prospeed Competition won the Teams' Championship, but were only confirmed as champions in December following a hearing to the FIA International Court of Appeal. Van Splunteren and Holzer had been disqualified from a victory at Zolder, due to a technical infringement regarding the weight of the car's rear brake discs.
Ultimately, Prospeed were reinstated which allowed them to regain the teams title which Callaway Competition had assumed from the disqualification. Callaway finished second, ten points behind Prospeed, with Schubert Motorsport finishing third. In the Manufacturers' Cups, the top-two overall placings for Hohenadel and Keilwitz, and van Splunteren and Holzer helped to claim the cups for Corvette and Porsche respectively. The other cup, for Audi drivers, was won by Ireland's Seán Paul Breslin for the German Black Falcon team.
Entries and Drivers
The list below contains the confirmed teams and drivers that competed in the 2010 championship.| Team | Chassis | Engine | No. | Drivers | Rounds | Tyres |
 Hexis AMR | Aston Martin DBRS9 | Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 | 1 | Manuel Rodrigues | All | |
| Hexis AMR | Aston Martin DBRS9 | Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 | 1 | Frédéric Makowiecki | All | |
| Hexis AMR | Aston Martin DBRS9 | Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 | 2 | Luc Paillard | All | |
| Hexis AMR | Aston Martin DBRS9 | Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 | 2 | Thomas Accary | All | |
 Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 3 | Kenneth Heyer | All | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 3 | Johannes Seidlitz | 1 | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 3 |  Bernd Herndlhofer | 2–4 | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 3 | Grégoire Demoustier | 5 | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 3 |  Stéphane Lémeret | 6 | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 4 |  Paolo Bonifácio | 1–5 | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 4 | Michael Ammermüller | All | |
| Team Rosberg | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 4 | Grégoire Demoustier | 6 | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 5 |  Pierre Hirschi | All | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 5 | Bruce Lorgère-Roux | 1–3 | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 5 | Grégory Guilvert | 4–6 | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 6 | Greg Franchi | 1–3 | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 6 | Stéphane Lémeret | 1–3 | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 6 | Jérôme Demay | 4–6 | |
| Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 6 | Bruce Lorgère-Roux | 4–6 | |
| Team S-Berg Racing | BMW Alpina B6 GT3 | BMW 4.4 L S/C V8 | 9 |  Martin Matzke | 1–3 | |
| Team S-Berg Racing | BMW Alpina B6 GT3 | BMW 4.4 L S/C V8 | 9 | Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof | 1–3 | |
| Team S-Berg Racing | BMW Alpina B6 GT3 | BMW 4.4 L S/C V8 | 10 | Thierry Stépec | 4 | |
| Team S-Berg Racing | BMW Alpina B6 GT3 | BMW 4.4 L S/C V8 | 10 | Jérôme Policand | 4 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 11 | Gilles Vannelet | All | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 11 |  Joe Osborne | 1–3 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 11 | Antoine Leclerc | 4 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 11 | Niki Lanik | 5 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 11 | Raymond Narac | 6 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 12 | Jürgen Häring | 1–5 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 12 | Kévin Estre | 1–2 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 12 | Philip Geipel | 3 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 12 |  Dimitrios Konstantinou | 4–5 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 12 | Armand Fumal | 6 | |
| Mühlner Motorsport | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 12 | Jérôme Thiry | 6 | |
| Fischer Racing | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 14 |  Mikko Eskelinen | All | |
| Fischer Racing | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 14 |  Christoffer Nygaard | 1–4, 6 | |
| Fischer Racing | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 14 | Florian Gruber | 5 | |
| Graff Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 16 | Joakim Lambotte | All | |
| Graff Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 16 | Mike Parisy | All | |
| Graff Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 17 | Arnaud Vincent | 1–2, 6 | |
| Graff Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 17 | Arnaud Peyroles | 1–3, 6 | |
| Graff Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 17 | Grégoire Demoustier | 3–4 | |
| Graff Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 17 | Henri-Gérard Tonelli | 4 | |
| Toni Seiler Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 18 | Toni Seiler | 1–4 | |
| Toni Seiler Racing | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 18 | Dino Lunardi | 1–4 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 20 |  Siso Cunill | 1–2 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 20 | Tim Bergmeister | 1 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 20 | Phil Keen | 2 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 21 | David Ashburn | 1 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 21 | Martin Ragginger | 1 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 21 |  Yücel Özbek | 2 | |
| Trackspeed | Porsche 997 GT3-R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 21 |  Kevin Veltman | 2 | |
 United Autosports | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 22 | Michael Guasch | All | |
| United Autosports | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 22 | Mark Patterson | All | |
| United Autosports | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 23 | Matthew Bell | All | |
| United Autosports | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 23 | Zak Brown | All | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 24 | Albert von Thurn und Taxis | 1–4 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 24 |  Giorgio Sanna | 1, 3 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 24 | Philip Geipel | 2 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 24 | Eugenio Amos | 4 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 25 | Ellen Lohr | 1 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 25 | Philip Geipel | 1 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 25 | Giorgio Sanna | 2 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 25 | Charlie Geipel | 2 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 25 | Siso Cunill | 4 | |
| Argo Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | 25 | Niels Lagrange | 4 | |
| Belgian Audi Club | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 27 | Enzo Ide | 6 | |
| Belgian Audi Club | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 27 | Greg Franchi | 6 | |
| Duncan Cameron Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 28 | Duncan Cameron | 6 | |
| Duncan Cameron Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 28 |  Matt Griffin | 6 | |
| Team Rhinos Leipert | Ascari KZ1-R GT3 | BMW S62 5.0 L V8 | 30 |  Rustem Teregulov | 6 | |
| Team Rhinos Leipert | Ascari KZ1-R GT3 | BMW S62 5.0 L V8 | 30 | Andrei Romanov | 6 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 32 | Seán Patrick Breslin | 1–5 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 32 |  Vimal Mehta | 1, 3, 5 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 32 | Robert Kaufmann | 2 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 32 | Matt Griffin | 4 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 33 | Seán Paul Breslin | 1–5 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 33 | Johannes Stuck | 1–2 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 33 | Christer Jöns | 3–4 | |
| Black Falcon | Audi R8 LMS | Audi 5.2 L V10 | 33 | Jan Seyffarth | 5 | |
| Prospeed Competition | Porsche 997 GT3 R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 60 | Petri Lappalainen | All | |
| Prospeed Competition | Porsche 997 GT3 R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 60 | Markus Palttala | All | |
| Prospeed Competition | Porsche 997 GT3 R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 61 | Paul van Splunteren | All | |
| Prospeed Competition | Porsche 997 GT3 R | Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 | 61 | Marco Holzer | All | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 76 |  Csaba Walter | 1 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 76 | Claudia Hürtgen | 1 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 76 |  Edward Sandström | 2–6 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 76 | Patrik Söderlund | 2–6 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 77 | Edward Sandström | 1 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 77 | Patrik Söderlund | 1 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 77 | Csaba Walter | 2–6 | |
| Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW 4.0 L V8 | 77 | Claudia Hürtgen | 2–6 | |
| Chad Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 87 | Giacomo Petrobelli | 1–5 | |
| Chad Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 87 | Diego Alessi | 1–5 | |
| Chad Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 87 | Iain Dockerill | 6 | |
| Chad Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 87 | Tom Ferrier | 6 | |
| Chad Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 88 | Damien Charveriat | 2–5 | |
| Chad Racing | Ferrari 430 Scuderia GT3 | Ferrari 4.3 L V8 | 88 | Charles Hollings | 2–5 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford Mustang Marc VDS GT3 | Ford 5.3 L V8 | 98 | Eric De Doncker | 2–3 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford Mustang Marc VDS GT3 | Ford 5.3 L V8 | 98 |  Scott Maxwell | 2 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford Mustang Marc VDS GT3 | Ford 5.3 L V8 | 98 | Maxime Martin | 3 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 98 | Eric De Doncker | 5–6 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 98 | Mathias Beche | 5–6 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 99 | Gaël Lesoudier | 5–6 | |
| Marc VDS Racing Team | Ford GT GT3 | Ford Cammer 5.0 L V8 | 99 | Maxime Martin | 5–6 | |
| Callaway Competition | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 100 | Marius Ritskes | All | |
| Callaway Competition | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 100 | Bernhard van Oranje | 1–4, 6 | |
| Callaway Competition | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 100 | Dennis Retera | 5 | |
| Callaway Competition | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 101 | Christian Hohenadel | All | |
| Callaway Competition | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8 | 101 | Daniel Keilwitz | All |
Calendar
On 23 October 2009, just before the final round of the 2009 season, the FIA World Motor Sport Council announced the 2010 calendar in co-ordinance with the FIA GT1 World Championship.| Round | Race | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winner |
| 1 | 1 | Silverstone Circuit | 1 May | #25 Argo Racing | #25 Argo Racing | #20 Trackspeed |
| 1 | 1 | Silverstone Circuit | 1 May | Philip Geipel Ellen Lohr | Philip Geipel Ellen Lohr | Siso Cunill Tim Bergmeister |
| 1 | 2 | Silverstone Circuit | 2 May | #18 Toni Seiler Racing | #25 Argo Racing | #101 Callaway Competition |
| 1 | 2 | Silverstone Circuit | 2 May | Dino Lunardi Toni Seiler | Philip Geipel Ellen Lohr | Daniel Keilwitz Christian Hohenadel |
| 2 | 3 | Masaryk Circuit, Brno | 22 May | #24 Argo Racing | #20 Trackspeed | #16 Graff Racing |
| 2 | 3 | Masaryk Circuit, Brno | 22 May | Albert von Thurn und Taxis Philip Geipel | Siso Cunill Tim Bergmeister | Joakim Lambotte Mike Parisy |
| 2 | 4 | Masaryk Circuit, Brno | 23 May | #87 Chad Racing | #87 Chad Racing | #16 Graff Racing |
| 2 | 4 | Masaryk Circuit, Brno | 23 May | Giacomo Petrobelli Diego Alessi | Giacomo Petrobelli Diego Alessi | Joakim Lambotte Mike Parisy |
| 3 | 5 | Circuito del Jarama, Spain | 19 June | #25 Argo Racing | #25 Argo Racing | #3 Team Rosberg |
| 3 | 5 | Circuito del Jarama, Spain | 19 June | Albert von Thurn und Taxis Giorgio Sanna | Albert von Thurn und Taxis Giorgio Sanna | Kenneth Heyer Bernd Herdlhofer |
| 3 | 6 | Circuito del Jarama, Spain | 20 June | #61 Prospeed Competition | #77 NFS by Schubert Motorsport | #77 NFS by Schubert Motorsport |
| 3 | 6 | Circuito del Jarama, Spain | 20 June | Paul van Splunteren Marco Holzer | Csaba Walter Claudia Hürtgen | Csaba Walter Claudia Hürtgen |
| 4 | 7 | Circuit Paul Ricard | 3 July | #101 Callaway Competition | #16 Graff Racing | #101 Callaway Competition |
| 4 | 7 | Circuit Paul Ricard | 3 July | Daniel Keilwitz Christian Hohenadel | Joakim Lambotte Mike Parisy | Daniel Keilwitz Christian Hohenadel |
| 4 | 8 | Circuit Paul Ricard | 4 July | #61 Prospeed Competition | #16 Graff Racing | #101 Callaway Competition |
| 4 | 8 | Circuit Paul Ricard | 4 July | Paul van Splunteren Marco Holzer | Joakim Lambotte Mike Parisy | Daniel Keilwitz Christian Hohenadel |
| 5 | 9 |  Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão | 18 September | #101 Callaway Competition | #76 NFS by Schubert Motorsport | #61 Prospeed Competition |
| 5 | 9 | Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão | 18 September | Daniel Keilwitz Christian Hohenadel | Patrik Söderlund Edward Sandström | Paul van Splunteren Marco Holzer |
| 5 | 10 | Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão | 19 September | #5 Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | #5 Saintéloc-Phoenix Racing | #101 Callaway Competition |
| 5 | 10 | Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimão | 19 September | Pierre Hirschi Grégory Guilvert | Pierre Hirschi Grégory Guilvert | Daniel Keilwitz Christian Hohenadel |
| 6 | 11 | Circuit Zolder | 10 October | #98 Marc VDS Racing Team | #1 Hexis AMR | #76 NFS by Schubert Motorsport |
| 6 | 11 | Circuit Zolder | 10 October | Mathias Beche Eric de Doncker | Frédéric Makowiecki Manuel Rodrigues | Patrick Söderlund Edward Sandström |
| 6 | 12 | Circuit Zolder | 10 October | #1 Hexis AMR | #1 Hexis AMR | #61 Prospeed Competition |
| 6 | 12 | Circuit Zolder | 10 October | Frédéric Makowiecki Manuel Rodrigues | Frédéric Makowiecki Manuel Rodrigues | Paul van Splunteren Marco Holzer |
Championships
The GT3 Championship adopted the new Formula One points system, meaning points were awarded to the top ten finishers in both races.| Year | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| 2009 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |