The 2010 International GT Open season was the fifth season of the International GT Open . The season commenced on 17 April at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia and finished on 31 October, at Circuit de Catalunya after 16 races held at eight meetings.
AF Corse wrapped up three different championships during the season, winning both Super GT titles for drivers Álvaro Barba and Pierre Kaffer as well as the teams title having run as many as five cars during the season. Kaffer and Barba took the overall title by five points ahead of Autorlando Sport's pairing Gianluca Roda and Richard Lietz . A further two points behind were the Edil Cris pairing of Raffaele Giammaria and Enrico Toccacelo , who finished ten points ahead of IMSA Performance 's Raymond Narac and Patrick Pilet . The four pairings remained in the same order in the Super GT championship standings, with Barba and Kaffer, and Narac and Pilet winning the most races with four. Two victories were taken by Lietz and Roda, and Giammaria and Toccacelo, with other victories taken by CRS Racing 's Tim Mullen , who took three wins – two with Chris Niarchos and one with Adam Christodoulou – while the other victory was secured by Villois Racing's Massimiliano Wiser and Lucas Guerrero.
A strong end of season run by Kessel Racing 's Marco Frezza helped him claim the GTS title, with three successive wins allowing him to overhaul a 16-point deficit to Jean-Philippe Dayraut of Luxury Racing. Frezza took five wins overall on the season, two with Pedro Couceiro and three with Niki Cadei. Dayraut took four wins, three with Stéphane Ortelli and one with Johan-Boris Scheier. Third place was taken by Frezza's team-mates at Kessel Racing, Lorenzo Bontempelli and Stefano Livio, who took race victories at Imola , Brands Hatch and Monza . Other victories were taken by Dimitris Deverikos and Thomas Gruber, and Andrea Cecatto and Alessio Salucci at Valencia, Duncan Cameron and Matt Griffin at Brands Hatch, and Stefano Borghi and Gianluca de Lorenzi at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps . Kessel Racing easily won the teams title, scoring more than double the points of runners-up Luxury Racing. Frezza finished as the highest GTS driver in the overall standings, in tenth position ahead of Dayraut.
2010 Entry List Team No. Drivers Chassis Engine Class Rounds [1] 2 Richard Lietz [1] Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6SGT All [1] 3 [2] Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6SGT 1–4 Luca Moro [2] 65 [3] Porsche 997 GT3-R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6GTS 1–7 [3] AF Corse [4] 4 [5] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 4, 8 [5] 5 Rui Águas [5] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 4 [5] 4, 7–8 Luca Rangoni [6] 7–8 6 [4] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1–5, 7–8 Rui Águas [3] 1 [7] 2–5, 7–8 8 Álvaro Barba [4] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT All Pierre Kaffer [4] 28 Robert Kauffmann [8] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 8 007 [3] Aston Martin DBRS9 Aston Martin 6.0 L V12GTS 1, 4 [3] AT Racing [4] AF Corse 7 [4] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT All [4] [9] 9 Raffaele Giammaria [9] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT All Enrico Toccacelo [9] Kessel Racing [10] 11 Philipp Peter [10] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1–4, 6–8 [10] 46 [3] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 1, 5 [3] 51 [3] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS All [3] 66 Pedro Couceiro [3] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 1–6 [3] All [6] 7–8 67 [3] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 1–5, 7–8 [3] 1 [7] 2–3, 5, 7 [5] 4, 8 [11] 12 [12] Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2 Aston Martin 4.5 L V8SGT 1–7 [12] All Gabriele Lancieri [8] 8 52 [12] Aston Martin DBRS9 Aston Martin 6.0 L V12GTS 1–5 Gabriele Lancieri [12] 1–7 Max Busnelli [13] 6–7 53 [12] Aston Martin DBRS9 Aston Martin 6.0 L V12GTS 2 [12] 2–7 [14] 3 Max Busnelli [15] 5 [13] 6–8 [8] 8 Sunred Engineering 14 Fernando Monje [3] Sunred SR21 Sunred SRX Judd GV4 4.0L V10SGT 1, 5, 7–8 Jordi Gené [3] IMSA Performance Matmut [16] 16 [16] Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6SGT All Patrick Pilet [16] 22 Nelson Piquet Jr. [17] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 8 Álvaro Parente [17] 30 Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1 [3] 31 Juan Manuel López [3] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1 Manuel Gião [3] JMB Racing 24 Emmanuel Collard [8] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 8 [8] Drivex 32 Miguel Amaral [3] Ferrari F430 GT2 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Ferrari 4.0 L V8Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6SGT 1, 3, 8 [3] 34 [3] Mosler MT900 RChevrolet LS7 7.0L V8SGT 1 [3] 82 Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 8 [8] PRO-GT by Alméras 34 [6] Porsche 997 GT3-R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6GTS 7 [6] Sébastien Loeb [8] 8 Dani Sordo [8] 83 [8] Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6GTS 8 [8] 85 [8] Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6GTS 8 [8] 35 [3] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1 Máximo Cortés [3] 36 [6] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 7–8 [6] [18] 56 [18] Ferrari F430 Ferrari 4.0 L V8GTS 1, 3–4, 8 [3] 57 [18] Ferrari F430 GT3 Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.3 L V8Ferrari 4.0 L V8GTS SGT 1, 3–4 [18] [19] 58 [19] Audi R8 LMS Audi 5.2 L V10GTS 1–4 [19] Phoenix Racing [20] 59 [20] Audi R8 LMS Audi 5.2 L V10GTS 1–3 Marcel Tiemann [20] [18] 61 [18] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 1–2, 4–5 [18] 1–2, 4 [15] 5 [21] 62 [21] Ford GT GT3 Ford 5.4 L V8 S/CGTS All [21] Luxury Racing [18] 63 Jean-Philippe Dayraut [18] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 1–4 Stéphane Ortelli [18] 1–3 Frédéric Makowiecki [18] 4–5, 8 [15] 5 Pedro Couceiro [8] 8 72 [5] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 4 [5] Jean-Philippe Dayraut [15] 5–8 Stéphane Ortelli [15] 64 [3] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 1–2 [3] 73 [5] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 4 [5] 68 Gianluca de Lorenzi [5] Porsche 997 GT3-R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6GTS 4 [5] Manthey Racing 69 Marc Lieb [5] Porsche 997 GT3-R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6GTS 4 [5] 70 [5] Dodge Viper Competition Coupe Dodge 8.3 L V10GTS 4 [5] 4, 8 Sascha Bert [8] 8 74 [13] Porsche 997 GT3-R Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6GTS 6 Sebastian Asch [13] 75 [13] Dodge Viper Competition Coupe Dodge 8.3 L V10GTS 6 [13] 76 [13] Mosler MT900 Chevrolet LS7 7.0 L V8GTS 6, 8 [13] 77 [13] Ferrari 430 Scuderia Ferrari 4.5 L V8GTS 6, 8 [13] 6 Daniel Brown [8] 8 80 César Campaniço [8] Audi R8 LMS Audi 5.2 L V10GTS 8 [8] 81 [3] Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Lamborghini 5.0 L V10GTS 1 [3] [8] Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Lamborghini 5.0 L V10GTS 8 [8] Marcos Racing International 83 Cornelius Euser [3] Marcos Mantis Ford MOD 4.6L V8GTS 1 [3] 84 [3] Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Lamborghini 5.0 L V10GTS 1 [3] 86 [8] Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Porsche 3.6 L Flat-6GTS 8 [8] 87 Nicolas Armindo [8] Porsche 997 GT3 CupPorsche 3.6 L Flat-6GTS 8 [8] CRS Racing 90 Chris Goodwin [3] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1–3, 6–8 [3] All Andrew Kirkaldy [5] 4–5 91 Tim Mullen [3] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT All [3] 1–6 Adam Christodoulou [6] 7–8 130 [3] Ferrari F430 GT2 Ferrari 4.0 L V8SGT 1–4 [7] 2 [5] 4
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