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European auto racing series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Belcar Endurance Championship is the top-tier national endurance racing championship in Belgium. The series is sanctioned by the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium and run by Circuit Zolder.[1]
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History
The Belcar series has its roots in the early 1990s,[2] with the local Flemish championships BBL Endurance Cup and the Carglass Cup. Both were sanctioned by the Flemish autosport federation VAS. In 1997 the very successful Carglass Cup was upgraded to an RACB-sanctioned series and first used the name Belcar as the Carglass Cup Belcar. From 1998 the championship dropped the Carglass name and became known as Belcar. Its title sponsors were Castrol (1998-2001) and later Mediagroep Van Dyck.
In 2012, a conflict between the championship promotor Speedworld and the RACB led to the series' demise. Belcar was succeeded by a new series under the name Belgian Racing Car Championship, with Kronos Events as the new championship promotor.
In 2015, Circuit Zolder relaunched the Belcar under the name Belcar Trophy. It ran in parallel to the BRCC, but eventually became Belgium's top-tier endurance championship again in 2016 with Kronos Events ending the BRCC after the 2015 season. The series was renamed as Belcar Endurance Championship in 2016 and still runs under that name today.
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Races
The Belcar has historically had a very regular calendar. The season usually starts and ends with a race at Circuit Zolder, with the New Race Festival being the season opener from 1990-2006 and again since 2015 and the NASCAR Euro Series event being the closing event since 2016. The highlight of the season has always been the Zolder 24 Hours, which usually takes place in August.
There are also at least one or two events at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and usually one event in a neighboring country, with Assen, Dijon-Prenois and Nürburgring being the most visited tracks.
Besides the Zolder 24 Hours, the race lengths are usually 125 minutes.[3] However, there have been events where the race has been split into 2 or 3 shorter sprint races.
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Classes
As of the 2025 season, all cars are split into the following classes[4]
- Grand Touring Cup
- Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars
- GT Cup cars > 3300 cm³
- FIA GT3 cars with expired homologation or expiring in the current year
- Silhouette Pro and Pro Evo
- GTC Open
- Grand Touring Sport
- Porsche Cayman Cup cars
- FIA GT4 cars
- Silhouette Light
- GTS Open
- Super Sport
- Touring cars > 4000cc
- Touring cars between 2800cc and 4000cc
- TCR cars
- SS Open
- Club Sport
- Touring cars > 2500cc and < 2800cc
- NLS VT2 Class cars
- CS Open
- Club Challenge
- Touring & GT cars < 2500cc
- CC Open
Champions
List of overall Champions
By driver
By team
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Race wins
By driver
Last updated 05 July 2025, listing drivers with 10+ wins only
By team
Last updated 05 July 2025, listing teams with 5+ wins only
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External links
References
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