International GT is a North American racing series that includes The Stuttgart Cup, Mission Foods GT3 Cup Trophy and The Maranello Cup championships for late model Porsche and Ferrari competitors.
The 2025 Race Schedule
The 2025 Race Schedule
Jan 20-21 – Sebring Testing
Feb 20-23 – Sebring
Mar 20-23 – Road Atlanta
Apr 24-27 – Sonoma
May 2-4 – Laguna Seca
May 15-18 – Road America
May 23-26 – Lime Rock
June 19-22 – Mid Ohio
Sep 4-7 – Watkins Glen
Sep 18-21 – VIR
Oct 17-19 – Barber
Oct 30-Nov 2 – COTA
COUNTDOWN TO RACE DAY
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Until our Next Race: September 4 – Watkins Glen
Movie Premiere: Just Hands, For the Love of Racing, Watkins Registration, Farewell Kathy
Just Hands Movie Premiere It’s finally here! We’ve been watching Torsten and his crew as they’ve been filming the past couple years and the project is complete. If you can make it in person, we hope you do but if not please watch on Amazon Prime. Here’s the invite from Torsten and click on the movie ad to link to preview The scoop: cameras followed me around documenting my life into racing. It will stream on Amazon Prime. But before it drops, let’s kick things off in style: JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING AND FUNDRAISER ON JULY 31ST! This will be a laid back event. If you have never been to this drive-in theater, you will love it! Go to www.justhands.org/docuseries to get all the details. “Just Hands: For the Love of Racing” follows Torsten Gross, a quadriplegic on a relentless quest to compete at the highest levels of GT motorsport. More than a racing series, it’s a powerful human story—of resilience, grit, and defying the limits of what’s possible. Location: Four Brothers Drive-In Theater 4957 NY-22, Amenia, NY 12501 Tickets: $35 20% of all ticket sales benefit the Just Hands Foundation When: Thursday, July 31st, 2025 Gates Open: 5:00 PM Show Start: Around Sundown (~8:30PM) **** Torsten and his team will be making reservations for dinner for 6:30ish. If you would like to join them (the more the merrier!) just let Torsten know and he will add you. **** Hope to see you there! Forward and Faster… TorstenFGross@Gmail.com Watkins Glen September 4-7 Event Schedule Registration is open for the upcoming Watkins Glen race in September. We also have an event schedule posted (click on the photo of the partial to link to the full schedule). A CHANGE from the past several years, the entire event (on-track) will run Thursday through Sunday
Independence Day, Porsche Featured Marque at WGI, Detroit Watch Co
Happy Independence Day
From all of us at International GT, best wishes for a HAPPY and SAFE 4th of July. Be safe with travels and in celebrating our great country!
Porsche Featured Marque at Watkins Glen
For those of you who own older Porsche race cars and prep shops that support them, Watkins will be a return to the historic race car parade and the event will feature Porsche. Here is more info (yes, we cut and paste from the SVRA site, but they said it so well!) We will add that the downtown reenactment is fantastic and if you can schedule to get downtown after our session you should!
“One of the largest vintage events on the SVRA’s calendar, this weekend brings together hundreds of vintage race cars of all ages, makes and models. Air-cooled Porsches, are being featured. Brian Redman will be the Grand Marshal. The annual Grand Prix Festival, held on Friday in downtown Watkins Glen, commemorates the early sports car races that took place on a 6.6-mile course laid out on village streets. A high point of the Festival is the Grand Prix reenactment, with SVRA race cars driving the original Watkins Glen street course to the cheers of 20,000 enthusiastic spectators. Memorable track action and a unique downtown festival combine for a great weekend in the scenic Finger Lakes region of New York. It doesn’t get any better!”
Watkins Glen September 4-7 Registration and Garages
Registration is open for the upcoming Watkins Glen race in September and we want to encourage you to book garages straight away if you are planning to do so. We found out today that there are only a few remaining for lease. If you have any questions email Julie@ParellaMotorsports.com or call (770)380-7770.
Fast, Safe Racing Video – IGT Record Season, Watkins Glen Reset
You’ve heard the old saying “knock on wood” when something is on a positive streak but we say GOOD JOB to all the 2025 International GT competitors for marking 6 event weekends without any cautions for car-to-car contact!! Even with large fields and tight starts (like the one in the photo from March at Road Atlanta) everyone has raced clean and safe!
Click on the photo of Tom Kirk’s 22A to link to a video from Mid Ohio’s enduro showing exactly what we mean. Fast, fun, competitive, safe racing!
Admittedly, there have been a few off-course adventures taken by single cars but no car-to-car contact resulting in caution periods. We say big KUDOS!!
We’re well past the half-way mark in the season with just four races remaining and we look forward to more of the same super fast, safe and conscientious racing throughout the final events of the year. KEEP IT UP!
