March 12, 2025 | 6h Barcelona
After a successful launch for the 6H of Portimão in early February, the home of the Spanish Grand Prix will close the curtain on the 2025 Winter Series tour of Iberia. New teams and returning faces will duel throughout the field, with several thrilling class battles expected in addition to a fight for overall honours.
Razoon – more than racing were the overall winners of the inaugural 6H of Portimão, and the Austrian team is back with its Porsche 992 GT3 R in Barcelona, once again with Thomas Andersen and Simon Birch at the wheel. The 18-year-old Birch will arrive at the circuit with raised confidence, after winning in the GT Winter Series at Barcelona last weekend.
There will be two teams utilising a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo to challenge the Razoon Porsche. Grupoprom by BDR will bring its three-pointed star for the trio of Michael Dörrbecker, Amaury Bonduel and Alfredo Hernandez. The latter driver also raced at Barcelona in the GT Winter Series finale, and will take that experience forward into the 6H of Barcelona. The addition of Dörrbecker and Bonduel to the line-up makes this entry a significant threat for overall victory.
A further challenge can be expected from the newly-crowned GT3 class champions of the GT Winter Series, SR Motorsport by Schnitzelalm. The team will enter its Mercedes into the 6H of Barcelona, with team regular Kenneth Heyer set to lead the line-up.
A Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo II will be entered by Star Performance, with Miloš Pavlović leading a line-up also featuring Sandro Mur, Aniwat Lammahadthai and Sanporn Jao-Javanil. The team is currently undertaking a significant testing programme at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, and will be looking to use the accumulated track knowledge to their advantage.
The Cup 2 class for Porsche 992 GT3 Cup cars will once again be a show-stealer. The 6H of Portimão class winners Rodriguez Menzl and Nico Menzel are once again taking the start with A-Workx Motorsport, and Swedish Porsche specialists Mtech Competition are once again primed to challenge for victory. Gustav Söderberg Krogh was a standout performer in Portimão, and he once again forms part of the line-up this weekend, alongside Thomas Karlsson and Mattis Astrand.
Fellow Swedes Team Steiner Racing also return, fielding Anders Steiner, Mads Kimby and Ulrik Forsberg. Leading Porsche Carrera Cup team GP Elite makes its first GEDLICH Racing 6H appearance, fielding a 992 GT3 Cup for Peter and Koen Munnichs.
Elsewhere among the Cup classes for single-make GT machinery, French outfit CMR fields a Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo Evo II in the Cup 4 class. Rodrigue Gillion and Stephane Lemeret will share driving duties. Rossocorsa Racing will also join the field, entering a Cup 1 Ferrari 296 Challenge for Angelo Fontana and Niccolò Schirò.
The GT4 class will see the return of NM Racing Team, who were unfortunate to miss out on class victory at the 6H Portimão. Guillermo Aso, Denis Soglaev and Jonathan Currie are confirmed to pilot the Mercedes-AMG GT4, while Currie’s coach Phil Keen is also anticipated to join the driver line-up.
Another Mercedes will be entered into GT4 by Spanish squad PCR Sport, with Josep Parera, Vicente Dasi and Jase Gleichberg set to share driving duties.
Two teams vying for the overall victory will also be looking to pick up trophies in the GT4 category. Razoon – more than racing will enter a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS CS, while SR Motorsport by Schnitzelalm is set to enter the Mercedes-AMG GT4 it used to secure 2025 vice-champion status in the GT4 Winter Series. The GT4 field will also be rivalled by a Club class-entered Porsche Cayman, fielded by XRacing for Peter Brunner, Alex Ellinger and Beat Ganz.
The 6H of Barcelona is set to be a thrilling endurance spectacle, and fans of sprint racing will also be catered for at the circuit and on the live broadcast, as TCR Spain hosts its opening round of 2025 on the support bill. A strong, international field is expected, as GEDLICH Racing hosts a points-paying event in Spain’s premiere Touring Car championship for the first time.
This weekend’s action promises to be the perfect conclusion to a thrilling 2025 for the Winter Series, as the teams do battle to become the inaugural winners of the GEDLICH Racing 6H of Barcelona.
