24 Hours of Portimão

24 Hours of Portimão
24H Series
VenueAlgarve International Circuit
First race2017
First 24H GT race2017
Last race2022
Duration24 Hours
Most wins (driver) Josef Král (3)
Matteo Malucelli (3)
Jiří Písařík (3)
Most wins (team)Bohemia Energy Racing with Scuderia Praha (3)
Most wins (manufacturer)Ferrari (3)

The 24 Hours of Portimão is both a sports car and touring car automobile endurance race held annually at the Algarve International Circuit. It was inaugurated in 2017. The race is currently part of 24H GT Series and Touring Car Endurance Series.

Entrants and participants

As with all races in the 24H Series, promoted by Dutch promoter Creventic, they are open to both professional and semi-professional teams. The races are contested with GT3-spec cars, GT4-spec cars, sports cars, touring cars and 24H-Specials, like silhouette cars.

History

The first race took part in 2017 as part of 2017 24H Series, the 3rd season with FIA status. Since 2018 the race became also part of Touring Car Endurance Series, and in that same year was part of 2018 24H Proto Series. The 2021 race was cancelled due to COVID-19. The race was not included into the 2023 24H GT Series calendar, however in September 2023, it was announced that the race will return in 2024.

Race winners

Year Drivers Team Car Laps Race time Fastest Lap Reference
2023 Not held
2022 Charles Putman
Charles Espenlaub
Joe Foster
Shane Lewis
CP Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 718 24:01.57.232 1:43.087
2021 Race cancelled due to Covid-19
2020 Jürgen Häring
Michael Joos
Taki Konstantinou
Tim Müller
Marco Seefried
Herberth Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (2019) 731 24:01:23.179 1:45.206
2019 Josef Král
Matteo Malucelli
Jiří Písařík
No. 11 Bohemia Energy Racing

with Scuderia Praha

Ferrari 488 GT3 721 24:00:41.552 1:45.656
2018 Josef Král
Matteo Malucelli
Jiří Písařík
No. 11 Bohemia Energy Racing

with Scuderia Praha

Ferrari 488 GT3 586 24:00:46.170 1:45.651
2017 Josef Král
Matteo Malucelli
Jiří Písařík
No. 11 Scuderia Praha Ferrari 488 GT3 722 24:00:46.488 1:45.732

Manufacturer title wins

Wins Manufacturer Year(s) Team Year(s)
3 Ferrari 2017, 2018, 2019 Scuderia Praha 2017, 2018, 2019
1 Porsche 2020 Herberth Motorsport 2020
1 Mercedes-AMG 2022 CP Racing 2022

See also