Close to 90 entries already received for the 2023 Hankook 24H DUBAI - registration, event details 19.10.2022: The 18th edition of the Hankook 24H DUBAI, CREVENTIC’s flagship event every new year, looks set to be another star-studded event in 2023 with almost 90 cars already registered for the 24-hour endurance epic on 13-14-15 January. With three months l

 
The 18th edition of the Hankook 24H DUBAI, CREVENTIC’s flagship event every new year, looks set to be another star-studded event in 2023 with almost 90 cars already registered for the 24-hour endurance epic on 13-14-15 January.



With three months left to go before the green flag drops, the 2023 24H SERIES powered by Hankook season opener, held around the 5.39km Dubai Autodrome for the 18th consecutive time since 2006, has already drawn enormous interest from teams representing 22 different nations around the globe.




A tantalising enough prospect as that is, the provisional entry list, featuring as it does more than two dozen former event class winners, already boasts 14 different manufacturers with more expected to follow.
 


Entries continue will continue to be accepted at 24hseries.com and via CREVENTIC directly at info@creventic.com and/or +31 485 471 166.

 

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Former winners, and reigning champions
 


•    Outright GT winners Car Collection Motorsport, Herberth Motorsport and WRT back on the Hankook 24H DUBAI grid for 2023.


•    GT3 Teams’ champion Phoenix Racing begins title defence.


•    Event record holder Black Falcon to take on the 992 class.
 



Unsurprisingly, the 18th edition of the Hankook 24H DUBAI will see multiple former winners vying for further triumph on 13-14-15 January. Car Collection Motorsport, which took Audi’s second win at the event in 2019, has registered two Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo IIs for Dubai, just as fellow series staple Herberth Motorsport, the outright victor in 2017 with two-time World Endurance Champion Brendon Hartley, returns with two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs.
 


Having taken victory as ‘Belgian Audi Club Team WRT’ in 2016, and in a collaborative effort with Saudi Arabia’s MS7 in 2022, WRT will by eying its third win in 2023 with two as-of-yet unspecified GT3 machines.
 


The Haupt Racing Team (registered as HRT), the eponymous outfit of three-time event winner Hubert Haupt, has confirmed two Mercedes-AMG GT3 for Dubai. Both of the German outfit’s entries finished inside the overall top five at the 2022 edition – the #4 AMG leading home the sister #777 Mercedes in 4th and 5th respectively – one year on from the team’s overall podium spot and GT3-Am class win.
 


Intriguingly, another former event winner, Liqui Moly Team Engstler, transitions to the GT3 class on its 24H SERIES return having taken TCR victory in Dubai on its last entry in 2018.
 


2022 992-Pro class winner Team GP-Elite moves up to the GT3 division for 2023, as does reigning 991 Teams’ champion E2P Racing, which enters a Porsche 911 GT3 R for the first time.
 


Newly-crowned GT3 Teams’ ‘European’ champion Phoenix Racing is set to make its Hankook 24H DUBAI GT3 debut in January, placing itself in Championship of the Continents contention in the process. Season-long title rival CP Racing, the reigning GT3-AM Teams’ champion, will also kickstart its 2023 campaign in Dubai.
 


SunEnergy1 by SPS automotive performance, a former A6-AM class winner in 2018 as well as an overall podium finisher in 2022, will be keen to repeat its past successes. As, no doubt, will MP Motorsport, a GT3-PRO/AM and GT3-AM winner at the event in 2022 and 2020 respectively.
 


Across in the 992 class, competition doesn’t get much tougher than Black Falcon. The record-setting five-time outright winner of the Hankook 24H DUBAI returns for 2023, doing so with a Porsche 992 GT3 Cup for the first time.


 
 
Full details regarding the 2023 Hankook 24H DUBAI are available at www.24hseries.com
 




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