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Oct 8, 2026
Ava GregoryHOST
The series most people in this country are most likely to have encountered is the GT World Challenge America, which runs on street circuits and permanent road courses across the U.S.
Ava GregoryHOST
But SRO also runs the GT World Challenge Europe, the Intercontinental GT Challenge, and a number of national series in between.
Ava GregoryHOST
The Indianapolis Eight Hour is part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, which is a global points series that pulls together events from multiple continents into one championship picture.
Ava GregoryHOST
The teams and drivers competing this weekend have also raced in South Africa, Bathurst in Australia, uh, Suzuka in Japan.
Ava GregoryHOST
This is not a regional event is the, like, moral of that story.
John DagysGUEST
Let's take a look back at what ILMC was.
John DagysGUEST
ILMC piggybacked off of other races, much like the Intercontinental GT Challenge does with SRO right now.
John DagysGUEST
Good.
John DagysGUEST
So theoretically, you could have a championship of the Rolex 24, Mobile One 12 Hours of Sebring, ELMS at Silverstone, Spa, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, whatever.
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John HindhaughHOST
Yes, I wanted to bring that up too.
John HindhaughHOST
Yeah, Kyle Army was announced the first ever 24 hours at Kyle Army, which has rich endurance history with the nine hours going back way, way back.
John DagysGUEST
Yeah, the last time there was an international running of a sports car race at Kyalami was 2023 with Intercontinental GT Challenge.
John DagysGUEST
I think there was three or four races there in succession through the COVID years.
MaxHOST
has something on offer under the FIA's international GT series kind of thing which doesn't give a lot of points either I think
VyasHOST
the thing is what I also found out about that is the series like the IGTC or the Intercontinental GT Challenge and all GT World what is it called? Asian there's another Asian sorry there's another Asian championship that he did I don't think they count for points because they don't hit the minimum number of rounds to actually award drivers points or count for an e-license.
VyasHOST
That's what I...
MaxHOST
Oh yeah, I think they've got six rounds and the requirement is eight for a
Stephane RatelGUEST
We have the FIA, I mean, we don't, we just coordinate it, but you have the FIA GT World Cup in the street of Macau, which is an event that I find amazing.
Stephane RatelGUEST
You have the Intercontinental GT Challenge bringing together these five categories.
Stephane RatelGUEST
amazing long distance events, which have to be the biggest one.
Stephane RatelGUEST
Then we have the GT, as you said, the GT World Challenge with the four continents.
Aaron NoonanHOST
The other thing that was mad was Maddening watching it, not seeing a great deal of entertainment.
Aaron NoonanHOST
I want to go to Suzuka to the 1000K GT race that was part of the Intercontinental GT race.
Aaron NoonanHOST
series up there because Medecki Motorsport and MPC combined to run a Ford Mustang GT3 car up there.
Aaron NoonanHOST
They got pole and they ended up finishing the race second, which I thought was a stunning performance up against some of the best GT3 cars cars and teams from around the world.
Christian AbbottHOST
That's great.
Sean AbbottHOST
And part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge.
Sean AbbottHOST
And not Rexy, but Bushy took the win.
Christian AbbottHOST
Fantastic.
Ben ConstandurosGUEST
And he was ruined for the whole time.
Ben ConstandurosGUEST
Hopefully they're back out this weekend doing Intercontinental GT.
Ben ConstandurosGUEST
So hopefully they're all slightly less jet lagged.
Ben ConstandurosGUEST
I've seen it's horrible weather.