It’s exactly 20 years since the FIA GT3 Championship heralded a new era of sportscar racing. As a packed grid of 44 cars lined up at the Silverstone Circuit in 2006, few could have imagined the scale of success this category would go on to enjoy.
After all, this was a time when the sportscar racing landscape was highly fragmented and transitional. The World Endurance Championship was still six years away from being reborn, GT1 had collapsed under its own weight, while GT2 (which eventually became GTE) was too factory-oriented for mass adoption.
